

They are being attacked by a man on a flaming unicorn. – Ocelot horse back scene (probably shortly after the ambulance crash): Ocelot (presumably) arrives on horse, and him and Big Boss join forces, and take flight together. Big Boss drags himself out of the vehicle, and finds himself eye to eye with a floating character wearing a gasmask, resembling Psycho Mantis. – Ambulance scene (shortly after the hospital attack): The bandaged man and Big Boss try to escape the hospital in an ambulance, but this results in a crash. – Big Boss running out of the hospital, it’s difficult to tell where this fits chronologically, but probably just before the ambulance scene mentioned next. A mysterious bandaged man who calls himself Ishmael (a possible reference to a character from Moby Dick by Herman Merville), helps Big Boss escape. The hospital is being attacked by an armed group, possibly with the goal to kill Big Boss. His left arm has been replaced by an iron hook. – Hospital scene 2 (9 years later, so around 1983/1984): Big Boss wakes up from a coma. Big Boss is rescued, but falls into a coma. – Hospital scene (shortly after the Mother Base attack, so around 1974): Snake, Miller and a third person (we see the scene from his point of view) are in the emergency room of a hospital. Snake and Miller manage to escape by helicopter, but at some point get heavily injured (maybe a crash?). – The attack on Mother Base (shortly after the Ground Zeroes part, so around 1974): Mother Base is attacked by an armed group. The burned man is introduced, and his plans to attack the Mother Base of Militaires San Frontieres. Snake infiltrates the Cuban Prison Camp Omega in an attempt to rescue Chico. – Ground Zeroes (shortly after Peace Walker, so around 1974): the start of the game.

Coupled with earlier information, this is what we can reconstruct as a possible chronology: Here is an analysis.įirst of all, the trailer shows several points on the timeline. But like a true Metal Gear trailer, it manages to show a lot, while raising even more questions. Every Metal Gear fan will already have seen it, the latest trailer for Hideo Kojima’s current project, Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain.
