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. Social Ops is similar to the Metal Gear Acid series in terms of character movement and its use of items and weapons via trading cards.

The trading cards involve characters and enemies from Metal Gear, Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake. 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 collaboration cards with other game series such as Cerberus and Dragon Collection.

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

On December 14, 2012, 8 days after it's launch, Konami has announced that Social Ops has reached and surpassed 500 thousand downloads. In celebration a new campaign was open up to download.

On January 23, 2013, Konami has stated that Social Ops has reached and surpassed 100 million 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.

On July 2, 2013, Konami announced a Metal Gear Solid: The Legacy Collection based campaign to commemorate the release of the collection. All players have to do is collect a special Legacy Collection flyer found in various game stores across the country and enter the code located at the back of the flyer onto the game. Players will be awarded with a brand new campaign and a special new card featuring Snake is his MSF Sneaking Suit. The code is valid until August 31, 2013.

On October, 2013, Konami announced via the Social Ops website that the servers of the game will come to an end. The final mission will be downloadable on October 31, 2013, the download for game will be suspended on November 13, 2013, removed Google Play and Apple Store on December 13, 2013 and the service will end for good on January 31, 2014.

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 story, rendezvous, stealth, hold up, elimination, or rescue, as well as a boss battle at the end of every mission. Each campaign and mission awards the player new cards to use. The awarded card varies 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 (Air), Infantry (Land) and Marine (Sea.) Each card has their own special abilities of attack, defence and movement, as well as being combo'd with certain cards to deal double damage and defence. Each card also has a set of stars above signifying their rarity. 1 Star (N), 1 & Half Stars (N+), 2 Stars (R), 2 & Half Stars (R+), 3 Stars (SR) and 3 & Half Stars (SR+.)

Certain cards like Metal Gear Mk. II & III and Little Gray allows players to gain experience points. The Dwarf Gekko cards allows the player to restore cards used in the mission, the blue background Dwarf Gekko cards allows the player to restore a character card, whilst the red background cards restores mechs and Metal Gear unit cards.

"Raid Event", "Battle Event" and "Mission Event" 3 special missions that only last a week of their announcement. Each mission awards players one of a kind cards specially for the mission. These special cards allow the player to boost up their attack and defence up to what ever is printed on the card as well as having their own unique abilities. Although unlockable, these cards can only be used in the missions from which they've been unlocked from.

Story
Main article: Operation Snake Eater

Main article: Peace Walker Incident

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Sneak through Bananal Fruta de Oro, and then fight against Pupa.

Character Bios
On the main website, there are character bios for each of the appearing characters, barring the MSX2 game characters and characters from Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance. Note that all of these are in Japanese only due to the game's exclusive release in Japan.