He acts as mission control during field missions, dispatching objectives and valuable tips over the codec. Boris Vyacheslavovich Popov is the head of Maverick SCL as well as Raiden's mentor and old friend. Four years ago he swore to hang up his sword for good and become a family man but has slipped back into the killing business due to the emergence of a bloodthirsty split personality, known as Jack the Ripper, due to his childhood on the battlefield.

Raiden is the hero of the story and the player character. After receiving an upgraded and updated cyborg body, Raiden swears Things go awry however when a rival PMC group attacks their convoy, kills N'Mani, and cripples Raiden. Our story begins in the African nation of Abkhazia, where Raiden has been assigned to protect the President, a man by the name of N'Mani. Former child soldier-turned-spy-turned-cyborg ninja Raiden is forced into working for various Private Military Corps (or PMCs) both to support his family (it's like they say a soldier only feels truly at home on the battlefield) and to quell his inner bloodlust that developed as a result of his harrowing past. Now that that's out of the way, let's actually talk about the story.Īs mentioned before, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance takes place four years after the events of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. No matter how much you deny it or insist otherwise, this game is a permanent part of the Metal Gear Solid timeline.

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