Metal Gear (mecha)

Not to be confused with Metal Gear (video game), Metal Gear (Series), or Metal Gear Solid (1998 video game).
Metal Gear
Metal Gear vehicle
An illustration depicting mass-produced versions of Metal Gear REX on the battlefield.
First appearanceMetal Gear (1987)
Last appearanceMetal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (2015)
Created byHideo Kojima
General characteristics
ClassMecha

Metal Gear (Japanese: メタルギア, Hepburn: Metaru Gia) are the mecha in the Metal Gear series.[1][2] In the series, a Metal Gear is a bipedal, nuclear weapons-equipped tank. The Metal Gears are typically autonomous nuclear launch platforms which the player must destroy to save the world and complete the game. Often, confronting the latest Metal Gear model is one of the final challenges of each game.

  1. ^ Jeremy Parish, “Metal Gear,” Electronic Gaming Monthly 225 (January 2008): 93.
  2. ^ "Snakes and Gears: A Metal Gear Overview," Game Informer 182 (June 2008): 107.