A stealth action/survival game and prequel to Metal Gear Solid 1 (1998) and 2 (2001), MGS3 follows Naked Snake as he trudges through rain forests and swamps in order to clear the name of the American government of suspicion at detonating a nuclear missile within Soviet soil by dispatching the organization behind the act, in a story of shifting allegiances, deception, warfare, mentorship and sexuality.