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As long as modern video games have existed, arguably few franchises have carried as much weight in terms of influence as Hideo Kojima's landmark sci-fi saga, METAL GEAR SOLID. But how does the series rate, purely on the basis of its science fiction?

In this, the first entry in a new series by legendary MGS youtuber Futurasound Productions, we delve into an underdiscussed topic: METAL GEAR SOLID and biology.

After overviewing the basic idea of the single biggest influence on the games, The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins (1976), we provide an overview that charts the course of the games over time, relative to how each MGS in some form or another continued the original title's emphasis on biology and the post-Dawkinsian age of natural science.

0:00 - Introduction
1:25 - MGS1
13:05 - MGS2
20:27 - MGS3-V