Metal Gear Solid 3 - Takin' On the Shagohod Extended

Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater Original Soundtrack Disc 2
Composed by: Norihiko Hibino
Published by: Phantom
Produced by: Konami

[@internet-browser]

I love how the illustration of the Shagohod here looks like the box for a model kit.

[@BrainSeepsOut]

I like to think it was intentional and It's a shame that they never released a scale model kit.

[@TrueLeonPriest]

I guess Hideo Kojima has an allergy to money.

[@Haikuss123]

-Oh hello, colonel Volgin, I defected, so I brought you some presents: Some nuclear missiles and Shagohod model kit. -YES OMG BOSS HOW DID YOU KNOW!!!!!!oneoneone K gotta go kuwabarakuwabara *runs away holding the model kit in the air*

[@TrueLeonPriest]

Dammit, Boss! I just bought the tamiya paints for that!

[@BrainSeepsOut]

Snake, remember the basics of plamo.

[@nielsisback]

"I CAN'T MOVE!" "I'M NOT DONE YET!" "WH-A-AT?" "DIDN'T FEEL A THING!"

[@Zonex_Haven]

NIIIICCCCKKKK !!!!

[@yacabo111]

+Nielspiels aaaAAA-*AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH*

[@jgrosse5554]

+Jacob Nugent (yacabo) You're wasting your ammo!

[@lilycyberspace2963]

+Nielspiels DAMN

[@AlrikMetalhead]

*WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!?*

[@blazi2293]

Bipedal tanks? We don't need that. A giant tank that can move at 500km/h? Hell yeah

[@YuuyaKZMI]

The funny thing is, it worked. Auger-propelled machinery exists and the Shagohod definitely used it well.

[@mrorlov2706]

@@YuuyaKZMI Phase 2 idea is pure BS though.

[@YuuyaKZMI]

@@mrorlov2706 Yeah, physically it wouldn't make sense. Also something to note, Auger-based machinery will tear up the ground. It moves but it destroys the environment.

[@caav56]

@@YuuyaKZMI Does absolute wonders on soggy snow and in swamps, though. If the environment is shit, screw-propelled vehicles thrive in it.

[@YuuyaKZMI]

@@caav56 You right.

[@ParkinsandLynch]

*equips Rpg-7, spams square and L2 *

[@KoreanTakeout]

Or RB and X.

[@toybarrage2444]

Or just spam shoot him with the many anti-aircraft guns or heavy mounted machine guns

[@s1lenttaked0wn-90]

Or L,R and the touch screen

[@seantheguy1391]

Hamzah Saddiq fuck that m8 use the patriot

[@beansegg7579]

DIDN’T FEEL A THING

[@MrGrey321]

"Who's afraid of a little lighting? I mean it's not like I'm standing on a large metal surface with a current of electricity flowing though my bo-hfdksjlfknhdjsdtjfckmlnfjs!!!!!"

[@absollover522]

its thunder, not lighting

[@MrGrey321]

Absol Lover Thunder is the sound it makes Lightnug is the actual bolt of electricity,

[@MajorRibcageIII]

Let's destroy the Shagohod!

[@CODA96]

MrGrey321 He didnt said ''kuwabara kuwabara'' then.

[@Prep5242]

The problem with that line, which I assume is a hiimdaisy quote, is that having electricity coursing through his body would lower the potential difference between the static energy in the sky and himself, making a lightning strike less likely. I think

[@majorborngusfluunduch8694]

I really love this picture. The various original mecha in this franchise tend to share a particular trait. That trait is that they are military hardware, presumably designed to participate on actual battlefields. However, we never get to see them in use as proper military assets aside from MG Ray. That comes down to the fact that we destroy them when they're just unique prototypes. So it's nice when you come across art like this that gives you a glimpse of what something like the Shagohod would look like out on the field with other units.

[@departmentoftheeruseanroya9106]

It seems like instead of actual military environments, they seem to always be used for terrorism instead of actual combat.

[@NiCoNiCoNiCola]

@@departmentoftheeruseanroya9106 well, Shagohod was going to be used for Military things, same with Ray if I'm not wrong

[@boogaloo_weed]

Maybe Kojima was inspired by the story of the Maus, a superheavy wunderwaffen, but never saw combat outside of one prototype defending the factory it was made in. Remarkably similar to the story of metal gear

[@kontenterrorist2449]

@@NiCoNiCoNiCola I'm pretty sure that the Shagohod was designed as a deterrent. Equip insurgent armies with one and nobody would even dare to attack. Although it shares its impracticalities with Arsenal Gear. Just destroy any runway in the vicinity of one.

[@moonlord9294]

@@kontenterrorist2449 yeah there was no way that they would try to fight this thing

[@desolatortrooper7196]

Fun fact : at the leff of the Shagohod you can see 2 objects 279. Those were prototype of soviet heavy tanks designed to work in a nuclear war (i mean in region were a nuke would have exploded the radiation wouldn't poison the crew). Whomever did this was well awere of the subject of nuclear warfare in the soviet union

[@Terraqueo22]

Koji Shinkawa Knows a lot about weapons and army hardware... Kojima allegedly says that in his Twitter that he want a .45 Original Colt M1911 Custom.. Like the one Big Boss receives from EVA.

[@AntiActionFox]

Some are found at groznj grad

[@Kazuya.Mishima]

in the base there are dozens of them...

[@themoonpresence1183]

You all notice? The beat has a trance beat like Volgin's theme, there are Egyptian parts like The Fear's theme, a high pitched orchestra hit like a part of The End's dying song. Darker orchestra parts from The Fury's theme, a sound from Ocelot's battle theme, one part has opera in the background like The Sorrow's them and one part has almost the exact same notes as The Pain's theme! This battle theme is brilliant!

[@genokugel]

A keen listener! Thank you for your comment.

[@mateussouza8040]

Metal Gear Solid 3 is the best game from it’s era

[@ianfinrir8724]

You heard all that? You're pretty good

[@CODA96]

The beginning is also used in Zone of the Enders: 2nd Runner, in the Anubis Aumaan Boss Battle OST.

[@DoratTheKiller]

Thank you for this. I honestly didn't put much thought in the separate themes to recognize them here, but now that you point it out, it's true!

[@daniphofani3473]

This fight is one of my most memorable moments in gaming for me. I spent maybe half an hour fruitlessly spamming all of my weapons at volgin not knowing how to stun him in the first phase of the fight. Suddenly, I remembered shooting the treads in the Gronzyj Grad chase sequence to slow him down and it finally clicked. I said “wait a minute, the treads...” aloud, fired a rocket at the treads, to which Volgin screamed with his own “THE TREADS!!!”. I started cackling like a madman with the dumbest grin on my face. One of the best “aha” moments in a video game for me: Snake Eater is truly a masterpiece and probably my favorite game of all time.

[@tripplordofinconvenience9953]

E.

[@cirsenes7113]

Something similar to what you mentioned happened to me, it took me approximately more than 40 minutes to defeat the shagohood for that very reason. The difference is that I never knew you could do that shooting the treads until I saw it on a video. Although now if I know that I won't do it the next time I play Metal Gear Solid 3 because I feel that in this way it took away the epic and intense nature of this combat.

[@bradjones674]

Rapid fire RPG

[@paoloantonio1531]

R2 R2 R1 R2 R2 R1 R2 R2 R1 R2 R2 R1

[@aputridpileofb-movies6542]

I think perhaps the most terrifying thing about the Shagohod is that despite it's immense destructive front line capacity, it doesn't need to be anywhere near the battlefield to kill you, the ball at the top is a radar system and the big tubular thing is an *ATOMIC BOMB CANNON*.

[@Teixas666]

"Missile launch Ramp"

[@aputridpileofb-movies6542]

@@Teixas666 kuwabara kuwabara

[@Ozzieapologist]

Wich is what Metal Gear Rex and Peace Walker were (or, in this case, will be) all about: being able to cause mass destruction and death from anywhere in the world.

[@evatroniclover0026]

​@@Ozzieapologist Isn't that what all metal gears are supposed to be?

[@yeeny.]

@@evatroniclover0026 sort of, metal gears are defined as "being nuclear capable, firing warheads from their rail gun, eliminating the need for a missile, or launchpad allowing them to attack targets from anywhere in the world, on any kind of terrain." with a few exceptions. RAY was specifically designed to take out other Metal Gears, Gekkos are considered Metal Gears because they still fufill Granin's original vision of bipedal weaponry, and the Mk. II and III are only considered Metal Gears because Otacon wanted a way to never forget that he was the one who built REX.

[@SmonkWonk]

THE TREADS! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE??!

[@SwordHMX]

Kenny McCormick DAAAMMMNNN!

[@hopingmeme1154]

I CAN'T MOVE!

[@maplemaple1439]

*treads proceed to recover and function normally*

[@trevormarshall8553]

You're wasting your ammo!

[@sjcobra84]

I really liked the Shagahod design. And the whole runway system that it uses to discharge it's warheads. The whole advanced technology with limitations concept.

[@rdu239]

All the shagohod needed is a vast runway or airstrip so it can adjust to any direction it wants to launch the nuke, simply a single straight runway will just limit its direction capability

[@Attaxalotl]

@@rdu239 It doesn't need an airstrip, it just needs a 3-km long area of mostly flat land. This type of land is what makes up most of Siberia.

[@ianfinrir8724]

Of course the problem with the Shagohod is that it would never work in real life, and second you can do the same thing with a submarine as you can with the Shagohad but for a lot less money. The one advantage it has is that it's good for aggressive posturing "I have this big ass weapon and I'm not afraid to use it."

[@therac197]

@@ianfinrir8724 If you look at the time frame, it does work. The first proper ballistic missle submarines launched around the time MGS3 took place. The soviet subs coming into service were launching these missles. R11 - 170km range R13 - 600km R21 - 1.300km The Shagohod is supposed to carry an SS-20, though it should be an SS4 or SS5. Shagohod would launch modified versions of these missiles from pretty much anywhere and by providing an additional booster phase turning them into defacto ICBMs increasing the range to probably around 8000 km. Additionally enabling to launch a warhead 50% heavier than any submarine at the time was able to. But the danger was that due to the modified way of launch and changed IR signature many early warning systems wouldn´t recognize the launch as such nor could you surveille every possible launching point in more direct means. As the system was supposed to be mass produced you could start a first strike which would only be noticed once it was to late. The major problem is that the Missiles would hit jack shit due to guidance systems needed a fixed start point and Shagohod isn´t boosting the missles fast enough either

[@Hyper_1989]

​@therac197 technically you could also add that NATO was much better at detecting soviet subs at the time so it'd make sense they'd want an alternative to make use of their proximity to America in the east. Place one of these near Alaska and it could probably hit most of the US.

[@martinjmarchena]

One day, when I have a truck, I will name it "The Shagohod"

[@ennieminymoo6675]

Make sure it's equipped with portable nuclear warhead canyon and being capable of reaching 500 km/h

[@joejoetuber574]

i'm hereby stealing your idea

[@martinjmarchena]

@@joejoetuber574 at least post a pic of the new Shagohod 🙂

[@joejoetuber574]

@@martinjmarchena nah im waiting on the truck itself like you lol

[@martinjmarchena]

@@joejoetuber574 well then one of us will post first. Haha.

[@WaluigitheGreat]

3 people wasted their ammo.

[@Fabrizio_Ruffo]

Update: 9

[@ignoremycringecommentslol.8274]

Update:15

[@steelers0398]

Let's grind em into dust!

[@andrewpeutherer]

Update:114

[@CriPastChannel]

kuwabara, kuwabara!

[@DoratTheKiller]

*Obscure Japanese mythology reference*

[@Averi0]

1:25 best part

[@jordienoone]

Played this on the MGS4 Motorcycle session with EVA 👌🏽 pure bliss

[@enriquecomas933]

The Philospher’s Legacy is what started the gaming world’s most convoluted Cold War in gaming history and it was so well written and done.

[@Felix-ic1fc]

I remember at elementary school me and a friend drawing our armies on paper to compare them, we drew alot of soldier planes and tanks., But when i drew the Shagohod my classmate said: Oh shit! i surrender.

[@judeclips6866]

This song fr takes me back, who else here after the remake announcement 😭

[@Averi0]

This song is SO good

[@FOXSnakeEater]

I just cant imagine how the game is going to be. ITS BOUT TO BE INSANE

[@LoftOfTheUniverse]

So damn good. That surfer esque classic guitar with the electric genre sounding drums, jazzy riffs, and orchestration is just an outstanding thing to experience. Those trumpets lol wow.

[@KiRMett]

I always played this theme when I played MGS Online back in the day. This theme really set the mood to go around picking people off online.

[@PapomanResurrect]

if you timed the music guitar solo with the rocket shooting in the air, and using the Stoner, you will hear Snake's scream with the solo and it is so good. 0:48

[@treyowen9213]

Look at that beautiful art. Metal Gear art the way it's supposed be, just like the original MSX Metal Gear games.

[@Anothersexysong]

One cool thing about this is that i played on european extreme difficulty so risking being discovered for using fire weapons was out of the question, besides i wanted the stealth camo for my second run so no point using them anyway but in this battle i can't see anybody not using them because of the missiles and the shagohod only being stunned by rpg rockets, it was a cool detail to use that big machine gun snake fires while screaming to take down those missiles, felt soo rewarding to finally being able to lash out.

[@martinjmarchena]

Been playing this on the PS3 lately. Still a classic.

[@joejoetuber574]

This song never lets up, it just keeps on giving. Love it.

[@theflamestaghunter7631]

This is my favorite song in the game because of how epic and intense it is.

[@alexknight81]

3 people disliked this because they couldn't pass Ocelot in the Virtous Mission so they didn't heard this.

[@gentlemensgaming99]

Alex Knight No they could't figure out how to climb the tree with the gear in the first area :D

[@gentlemensgaming99]

They died in the swamp. #DSPGaming

[@CODA96]

+Starship Pwnzers *WHAT? I CAN DIE IN THE SWAMP? THATS BULLSHIT! HAHAHA! WHAT A POORLY PROGRAMMED PART OF THE GAME HAHAHA*

[@n.h.alicia3278]

Guys I'm definitely a liberal but, What, they could see me while I was running? Bullshit! Now I'm dead. I guess you just have to know that if the enemy soldiers in this stealth game see you they shoot you and you die when you lose all your health *snort* *ah ah ah ah*. Fucking Kojima.

[@s1lenttaked0wn-90]

(DSP runs into fire) I GOT HIT BY NOTHING!

[@bigobloks1656]

This is such a great song for this boss battle

[@Supdude.]

WHAAAAAAAAT?

[@vinnisvidya]

Supdude NICE JOB KOJIMA

[@-siggma-2531]

+Vinnis The Vidya Gaem Master You mean, nice Job Gregson-Williams :D

[@Herr_Jäger]

1:25 this part is soo good 😭

[@frantom2664]

KUWABARA, KUWABARA

[@TheCourier216]

Thank you so much been looking everywhere for something like this!

[@lewisthedude]

whoah, one of the most epic battles ever, and the song really delivers, this piece DEFINITELY needed to be longer, i thought about 4-5 minutes, but 15 minutes, hell yeah! 1/4 hour of full epicness, thanks pal! :)

[@AelfricBlack]

DIDN'T FEEL A THING

[@AlvaroJArias]

DAMN¡¡¡¡¡¡...Snake IS NOT OVER YET

[@Kinsanth_]

in the first chase scene when you are on the airfield with the shagohod and you damage it it will carry this damage on to the next battle. this is next level attention to detail in ps2 times what we slowly get today . that is a fully developed game for you all :D and to give something else upon that : Calorie Mate exists , in 5 flavours and is damn tasty

[@marcog5715]

I like how all the previous boss fights themes are all combined into one for this boss fight theme

[@xurany427]

Like the metal gear 2 reference in the artwork

[@trevormarshall8553]

0:49 I feel a highway to the danger zone vibe in a weird way

[@TheInterestRates]

"The treads!"

[@thekiller7994]

Didn’t feel a thing

[@ianfinrir8724]

You're wasting your ammo!

[@hollyhartwell77]

always use this song on the phone item in MGS4

[@rafaelnobrega9574]

I use that on the MG REX scenes and the RAY bossfight

[@rafaelnobrega9574]

I use that on the MG REX scenes and the RAY bossfight

[@Valentinexyz__]

I used it in the motorcycle chase with Eva.

[@zzz_zero_zzz1396]

I used it for the solidus fight

[@nectarium8760]

Did you mean the iPod Classic?

[@yorhuntermanudo6666]

My childhood, I remeber I was play this when I was 7 years old and this music with the epic battle with the shagohod and using the rpg 7 was so satisfying 🔥🔥😎

[@mr.chadwick8716]

Love it!

[@mustardwizard]

When you at Magic Johnson's house and you see a mosquito

[@mr.shin.5138]

Played this on the ipod in mgs4 during Act 2 during many rebel fights, very fitting.

[@ronniebarter3857]

I love this image, I wish there was a WarThunder-esqe spinoff about fighting metal gear.

[@masterbison8957]

"WHAT HAVE YOU DOOOOOOONE ?!?!?"

[@WinVisten]

You're wasting your ammo!

[@SwordHMX]

I've waited months for this. Now I have just one thing to say: THE TREADS!

[@UltimaDoombotMK1]

I always listened to this song in mgs4 when conserving solid eye battery.

[@M0rsikk]

Металл гия. Этого достаточно

[@blank6377]

the 9 people died when they have no weapons, has a tracking device left, and had no idea how to escape the HQ. after the torture sequence

[@Julian-lb5en]

Love it

[@paradoxwarlock]

"The Treads! I can't move!"

[@LudwigVonKewpa]

SNAAAAAKE! IT'S NOT OVER YET!

[@evil_voidxii7317]

i can almost hear him scream DAMN from inside he"s tank

[@SwordHMX]

Nice spin on it!

[@user-vw1tj4kx1c]

The funniest thing for me in Shagohod is its name. In Russian it literally means “Step walker”, while this tank on treads is anything but bipedal.

[@ianfinrir8724]

The Shagohod can walk, or at least crawl, but if you want to be metaphorical about it then it's a "big step" towards reshaping the balance of power on a global scale.

[@william.i.herman]

I want that poster in my room...

[@Imanmagnet00]

YOU!!!! I THANK YOU!!!

[@vicryl6561]

Best music in Snake Eater in my opinion.

[@tampaxisyourfreind]

best boss music of all :D

[@thunderpunch4739]

The intro at the very start of the music with the deep horns is for sure an homage to Godzillas signature theme.

[@Marths20]

Epic.

[@AbyssalWolfz]

Didn't feel a thing! *rpg hits the tread* WHAAAAAAT?!

[@AAdams456]

(Shoots Shagahod shell with rpg) DIDN'T FEEL A THING! YOU'RE WASTING YOUR AMMO! IS THAT ALL YOU CAN MANAGE?!

[@akaistrife8329]

DAMN!!!

[@megamanx2056]

NOT YET SNAKE, IT"S NOT OVER YET

[@Attaxalotl]

Col. Volgin has 15 alt accounts

[@AyaneOfDeath]

Ahh what have you done?......... I cant move!

[@lilycyberspace2963]

+AyaneOfDeath DAMN

[@AyaneOfDeath]

Lol

[@lilycyberspace2963]

DAMN

[@lilycyberspace2963]

DAMN

[@AyaneOfDeath]

Il grind you into the dust

[@dunnohow8822]

Kuwabara, Kuwabara, Remember the Alamo

[@docthefaust4519]

"EVA! I NEED you!!" 😮❤ "-to stop WHINING and fly us OUT of here!!" 😢

[@BenDover-sd8yh]

This is fucking gold i miss the old times

[@Malcirus]

That apostrophe in the title is exquisite

[@anthonyalbano1909]

I also play this when I do chores around the house or when im bored

[@ASTYRA8492]

SNAAAAAAAAKE !! No yet ! It's not over yet !!

[@thevigilante5623]

“THERE’S NO ESCAPE!”

[@PanicDr]

You know what?! I'm not selling my ps2 copy!

[@helio5943]

I love how similar the art looks to the MSX2 game's art

[@mityatarasov874]

R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2

[@FOXSnakeEater]

LEGENDARY SPAM RUN 😂

[@fadyk85]

MGS3 had banger boss tunes goodness gracious.

[@samhimself9964]

Why is this happening?! What have you done?!

[@thebitrunner5784]

O P E N F I R E

[@greenthunder1000]

I kept aiming for the MG port and missing the hit box. Took me a solid 15min to figure out that I could shoot the drills/tracks and pop it in the ass.

[@ianfinrir8724]

Thank God for infinite ammo, eh?

[@ricardocarrillo6418]

Its sad that this boss has a great soundtrack but was the easiest boss in the whole game

[@gentlemensgaming99]

Ricardo Carrillo But it was the most fitting because it was pretty intense in my opinion.

[@CODA96]

Ricardo Carrillo When you play on VERY EASY, its normal that the bosses are no problem for you.

[@ricardocarrillo6418]

Umm i beat this game on the hardest difficulty

[@CODA96]

Ricardo Carrillo Then you wouldnt say they are easy.

[@GUSRG]

+GermanKraut The boss is tricky, you just need to equip/unequip the RPG to fast reload and beat him.

[@Lunatic89097]

"You're wasting your ammo!"

[@UCannotDefeatMyShmeat]

who tf let me play this game as a child lol

[@FOXSnakeEater]

I swear bro 😂 Im fcked up by this game now

[@ianfinrir8724]

You had cool parents.

[@RytoNazrul]

Remember the first time got chase by that thing. I was like "oh hell no no no no no."

[@Enriquetom1]

THE TIRES¡¡¡

[@ryuushow2680]

"Fried by Lightning bolts,a fitting end"_Solid Snake,2004

[@Attackonmuffin]

Naked Snake :p

[@TabalugaUploads]

THE RUNNING SURFACES ARE BROKEN!

[@SwordHMX]

WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!? THE TREADS! DAAAAMN!

[@franciscomolinamoreno5692]

Es para mí el mejor robot metal gear

[@pcmr4289]

i will pay half of my age if let me back to the time of this game release.

[@Geoff69420]

This song should be in Smash.

[@gabrielamante6695]

kuwabara kuwabara

[@solidman107]

I always choice this song in MGO 2, it was so epic!

[@juicedup14]

TACTICAL HEAVY WEAPON

[@slidersides]

1:23 this part is my fav