AGE OF STABLENESS

With the frigid relationships between large nations like USA-RUSSIA and CHINA-RUSSIA thawing, they lead to the settling down of local conflicts, and the world is finally beginning to neutralize.

It is 1999, the nuclear threat of this century is leaving us, and we are ready to welcome the new stable 21st century.

However, a fraction of the populace does not like peace...

In the Middle East, a breeze of unstableness is blowing. Zanzibar Land - a small republic just next to Russia, China and the Arab nations - founds a military government.

It raids "Nuclear Arms for Disposal Storage" sites around the world and robs weapons still not disposed of, making it the sole nuclear-armed nation in the world, and begins non-discriminate invasions of nearby countries.

In a world which disposes of nuclear employment, Zanzibar Land's nuclear power is becoming a real emergency. A nuclear threat is budding once again.

ENERGY CRISIS

At the same time, oil resources are quickly growing scarce. Despite the foretelling that they would last more than 30 years, the world is facing a serious energy source crisis with no alternative supply to oil.

Then, a Czech biologist named Kio Marv invents a micro specimen - "OILIX", which rectifies high-quality oil. The world is once again in a tension regarding "OILIX". Dr. Marv is kidnapped by Zanzibarian radicals on his trip from Czechoslovakia to America. Zanzibar Land is trying to gain its military superiority through nuclear arms and "OILIX"...A micro-organism the size of a few micrometers is going to decide the fate of the world.

A top-secret order goes down to SOLID SNAKE, former FOXHOUNDER.

Single-handedly sneak into Zanzibar Land, and rescue Dr. Kio Marv!

Save the world from nuclear threat!