大家还记得在MGS游戏系列最早对MG的定义是什么么?
D.A.: What I'm about to tell you is classified information. Okay?
D.A.: We were conducting exercises with a new type of...experimental weapon. A weapon that will change the world.
S: What?
D.A.: [B]A weapon with the ability to launch a nuclear attack...from any place on the face of the earth...[/B]
D.A.: ...a nuclear equipped walking battle tank.
S: Metal Gear!?...It can't be!
但是按照Glanin的说法*"...a walking tank - a robot! Are you familiar with the theory of the missing link between apes and humans? Well, this technology will be the missing link between infantry and artillery. A kind of metal gear..."
作为一种Metal Gear 应当是一种双足步行坦克,他也因此排斥Sokolov的Shagohod