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Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops (officially abbreviated MPO) is a stealth-based game published by Konami and developed by Kojima Productions for the PlayStation Portable released in 2006. It is the fourth Metal Gear title for the PlayStation Portable and the first one to retain the series' action-based gameplay. It is also the first canonical outing of the series for a portable platform (that is not adapted from a previous game), being a direct sequel to Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. It was originally planned as a new non-franchise title

and its sequel, which were turn-based strategy games with stealth elements on the PSP, MPO retains the action-based gameplay from the console iteration, drawing heavily from Snake Eater and featuring similar camera controls from Subsistence.

The game also contains a Wi-Fi-enabled multiplayer mode, an expansion of the "Metal Gear Online" mode previously featured in Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence. The player's performance in the Online Mode affects their gameplay in the single player campaign, as you are not only able to recruit and trade soldiers from beaten opponents, but they also have the ability to take your soldiers. Also, certain multiplayer options make characters lost in multiplayer permanently removed from the player's single player roster (see below).

The main addition to MPO is the "Comrade System". Instead of the solo-based missions that the series is known for, MPO goes for a squad-based approach, with Snake having to recruit his own allies and form his own team of trained specialists. At the beginning of each mission, the player must compose a four-man squad, which usually includes Snake himself, and then send the desired squad into the battlefield. Each member of Snake's squad has their own strengths and weaknesses. While some units are best utilized on the battlefield, others may specialize in producing items, healing allies, or providing intel for each of the game's maps.

During gameplay, the player controls only one squad member at a time. The squad members not in use hide themselves inside a cardboard box, and can be swapped into play when the player-controlled character finds a "hiding spot", where they can hide in their own cardboard box.

Characters who are killed in combat are eliminated from the game. The player can abort the mission if they feel one of their comrades is dying, or they may choose to restart the mission if a favorite character has died (similar to Fire Emblem games). This does not apply to major plot-based characters, who instead of being eliminated from the team, are sent into the infirmary to recover.

A variety of methods can be employed to expand one's squad. If an enemy character is tranquilized or stunned, they can be dragged to a waiting pick-up truck and captured. After a period of game time, the captured soldier will become a member of your team. Also, enemy characters can be dragged to an ally waiting in a cardboard box, where, through the use of a transceiver frequency, they will be ordered to transport the enemy for you, saving stamina. In online combat, one of the losing player's squad may be forfeited to the winner's team. And by accessing PSP into certain hotspots using the system's Wi-Fi feature, special bonus characters can be accessed. The PSP GPS Receiver can also be used to similar effect. Because some of the player's recruits include former enemy soldiers or personnel, they can walk among the enemy undetected as long as the player avoids doing suspicious actions.

Another new feature is the surround indicator added to the game's HUD. Similar to the radar in previous titles, the surround indicator allows players to determine the relative proximity of enemy soldiers by the noises they make. The surround indicator is composed of two circles; the outer circle displays the noises made by enemies and inner circle displays noises made by the player themself.

Six years after the events of Operation Snake Eater, members of the FOX Unit had led an insurrection, breaking allegiance with the CIA. Snake, also, is targeted by the FOX Unit, who attacks and captures him.

It is now November in the year 1970. Snake is being tortured and interrogated by FOX member, Cunningham. His goal: to find out the whereabouts of the missing half of the Philosopher's Legacy. The United States branch of the Philosophers had acquired half of the Legacy from Russia at the conclusion of Snake Eater, but the other half was still at large. Snake has no idea where it is, so he is beaten and kept in captivity.

Snake is left in a cell next to Roy Campbell, an American Green Beret sent in to investigate the base. His entire unit was wiped out. Through conversation with Campbell, Snake learns he is on the San Hieronymo Peninsula, an abandoned Soviet missle base located near Colombia. Snake makes his way to a communications base, where he tries to contact his old CO, Major Zero. Instead, he is greeted by Para-Medic. Para-Medic explains to Snake that Major Zero was placed under arrest a month ago by the Pentagon, under suspicion of treason. She also explains the current situation to Snake: that a CIA unit (FOX) has stolen a top-secret US weapon and fled the country. The rogue unit is demanding independence from the US and Soviet Union in negotiations, in order to create a new military nation. Zero was charged with instigating the revolt, as well as Snake, who, the military believes, led the rebellion. She also explains that any members of FOX who didn't join the rebellion were killed, and that all that had remained of FOX were members who specialized in solo missions, giving the Pentagon an MO for accusing Snake, as the only soldier who could have pulled off killing all other members of FOX would, in fact, be Snake.

Snake also speaks to Sigint, who tells Snake that the only way for him to clear his name is to find and apprehend the leader of the rebellion, dead or alive. To complicate matters, FOX has also convinced several of the Russian soldiers staged on the Peninsula to join their side by simply taking over the chain of command for a Red Army unit that was secretly stationed inside the Colombian territory.