I scout the village from the hills and find one soldier who's made the mistake of walking a little too far from the center of town and the rest of his automatic weapon toting pals. My standard procedure is to separate a sheep from the herd. My standard procedure is to separate a sheep from the herd Get in, get out nobody gets hurt, especially not me. I've done plenty of these - a dozen, at least. A voice in my ear says something about extracting a high-priority target. My chopper has dropped me in a field, just outside a small, rundown village overrun with Soviet forces. This is a one-man Blackwater simulator - while also being a pretty on-the-nose critique of Blackwater and the military industrial complex.Īnyway, in this story, I'm on a pretty typical mission, one that's not even part of the main campaign. Who am I working for? Why am I working for them? That's not my problem. I climb mountains, ride my trusty horse, assault Soviet bases, build a private military, and extract high-profile targets in exchange for pay from outside forces. I am playing Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain, an espionage video game in which I, Snake, a Kurt Russell knock-off with the voice of Kiefer Sutherland, tool around a huge, open facsimile of Afghanistan in 1984. Sometimes a lesson's best learned from someone else's mistakes.
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