Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
Now some bait for a college kid who recently watched Eraserhead. 2008 stealth game Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots has a particularly surreal, unique introduction: TV programming and commercials, which you skip through upon creating a new game, all set in the game’s barbaric vision of 2014.
Programming includes a cooking show teeming with flies, showcasing ingredients like tire-pressed vulture, an ad featuring French girls swimming in kraken-infested pink waters, telling you to play dead, and an interview with the real voice of protagonist Solid Snake, David Hayter, who is fitted with a bionic eye patch. I assume this is what I’ve been missing in my unwatched seasons of Jersey Shore
