Metal Gear Solid: Social Ops

Metal Gear Solid: Social Ops (officially abbreviated MGS SOP) is a 3D mobile game. It was released for iPhone and Android smartphones on December 6, 2012 with language settings for Japanese. The game involves gameplay and re-enactment from the games Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater and Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker however, you move your characters and use its items and weapons by the use of trading cards, similar to the Metal Gear Acid series. The trading cards involve characters and enemies from Metal Gear Solid, Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance and Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes. Besides cards relating to the Metal Gear series, there are also cards related to Zone of the Enders, another series of games by Kojima Productions and cross-over cards with other game series such as Cerberus.

The game's official website was launched on August 30, 2012.

On January 23, 2013, Konami has stated that Metal Gear Solid: Social Ops has reached and surpassed 100,000,000 downloads. To celebrate a new campaign was open to download as well as new card which feature a never before seen new CGI concept art featuring the Metal Gear Solid version of Solid Snake.

There are no plans to release an English version of Social Ops.

Gameplay
The main game is free to download, with a ability to purchase downloadable content. The contents are usually new campaigns or limited edition cards to use during the game.

Each campaign usually involves certain missions between either stealth, elimination, or rescue, as well as boss missions. Each campaign and mission awards the player new cards to use. The card various on the ranking the player gets at the end of the mission.

Cards are also awarded via co-op and versus game play as well.

There are 3 types of card in the game; Airborne, Infantry and Marine. Each card has their own special abilities of attack and defence, certain cards like the Metal Gear Mk.II & III allows players to recover life or ammo and Little Grey which allows players to purchase new cards. Each card also has a set of stars above signifying their rarity.

Story
Main article: Operation Snake Eater

Main article: Peace Walker Incident