Metal Gear (series)

is a military-style stealth gaming franchise developed by Kojima Productions and published by Konami. Series creator Hideo Kojima and members of his development team played advisory roles in the development of Castlevania: Lords of Shadow.
==Connections to the Castlevania series==
According to Hideo Kojima, the first Castlevania and it being a smash hit was one of the reasons he decided to become a game developer and create his own hit game.https://game.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/394655.html In addition, the development team for the first Castlevania games were also responsible for the creation of the non-canon game Snake's Revenge.
===Metal Gear Solid===
*The game Metal Gear Solid (Konami, 1998) for the PlayStation has a telepathic character, Psycho Mantis, who says the line: "You like Castlevania, don't you?" if the game finds a Castlevania: Symphony of the Night save file on the memory card.
Psycho Mantis - Metal Gear Solid - 01.png|Metal Gear Solid's nod to Castlevania.
===Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty===
*One of the antagonists of the game, Vamp, shares the same voice actor in Japan as Alucard in the standard series, Ryōtarō Okiayu. Coincidentally, Vamp, like the animated series version of Alucard, is also bisexual. However, he is not a vampire despite his nickname and appearance, as stated by Iroquois Pliskin (Solid Snake), though he nevertheless has vampire-like traits such as a literal thirst for blood, enlarged canines, and most infamously his ability to revive from fatal wounds (later revealed in Metal Gear Solid 4 to be the result of a nanomachine base that regenerates wounds at a rapid rate). He is also Romanian in nationality. Ironically, Vamp's rival and the game's main protagonist, Raiden, resembles Alucard slightly.
**At one point in Vamp's debut, he managed to deduce Iroquois Pliskin's true identity of Solid Snake via his scent, similar to how Alucard managed to deduce Richter's ties to the Belmont Clan when encountering him at the Colosseum in Symphony of the Night.
===Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops/Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops Plus===
*The main antagonist Gene, when playable and using the Bowie Knife, as well as when the player holds down the attack button, throws these knives in a similar manner to 1,000 Blades.
**In the original Dracula novel, Quincey Morris killed Count Dracula by plunging his Bowie knife through his heart. The Castlevania version of this character, Quincy Morris, did the same, although he used a wooden stake instead.
**The Bowie Knife throw when combined with his teleport technique during the boss fight against Gene bears a slight resemblance to Hellfire, one of Dracula's signature moves. Coincidentally, Gene's Japanese voice actor, Norio Wakamoto, acted as the standard voice actor for Dracula for most of the games. Also similar to Dracula, Gene was capable of influencing people's minds and hearts, although in his case, it was the byproduct of enhancements from a military project to form the ultimate battlefield commander that Gene was previously subject to.
===Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots===
*The fighting style of one of the bosses in the game, Screaming Mantis, is similar to the standard fighting style for the Castlevania antagonist Death, namely staying high in the air while flinging various blades at the player.
===Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker===
*Big Boss and Chico referenced Vlad the Impaler and Count Dracula in a briefing file. The file also alluded to the basis of Dracula's name being "Son of the Dragon".
*The used for the character Paz Ortega bears a resemblance to of Maria Renard for Castlevania: Dracula X, although it's unknown if this was intentional.
===Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance===
*Shortly after the tutorial in Chapter 1, Kevin Washington, in response to Raiden's reference to the slain cyborgs as "walking vending machines", sarcastically stated that they're "vending machines full of blood" as well as giving a vampire hiss before telling Raiden to go easy while referring to him as Dracula (this also doubles as an inside reference to the Metal Gear series, as Kevin Washington's English voice actor, Phil LaMarr, had previously voiced Vamp in Metal Gear Solid 2 and Metal Gear Solid 4).
===Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain===
*Death made a cameo as part of the logo for the Event FOB private force Kill Count.
===Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow===
*When coaxing a Yeti out with Curry via the Waiter Skeleton soul, the Yeti will briefly display an exclamation mark over its head and jump out of the background, referencing the use of the exclamation mark by enemy soldiers when raising Alert Mode in the Metal Gear series.
===Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia===
*Arthroverta's death scream was reused from that of Metal Gear REX from Metal Gear Solid and its remake, The Twin Snakes.
*During Albus Mode, when Albus activates the elevator to deliver the coup-de-grace on Brachyura, he says "Showtime" in a similar tone to one of the Metal Gear series protagonists, Solid Snake.
===Castlevania: Lords of Shadow===
*While traveling through a small tunnel in the Vampire Castle, Metal Gear theme music can be heard playing faintly.
*Players can unlock the "Solid Eye" and bandanna for Gabriel Belmont to wear once the game's story is completed. These items are worn by the series protagonist, Solid Snake, in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. In addition, the render for Gabriel with the Solid Eye and bandanna has him holding a cigarette, alluding to how Snake in his home series was a well-known smoker.
*Many members of the Metal Gear Solid voice cast worked on the voiceovers for the Japanese release. Hideo Kojima provided the voiceovers for the Chupacabras in this version.
GabrielSolidEye.jpg|Gabriel wearing Snake's "Solid Eye", bandanna and smoking a cigarette.
===Super Smash Bros. Ultimate===
*Both the Metal Gear and Castlevania series are represented in the game, with the former featuring Solid Snake as its representative, and the latter being represented by Simon Belmont and Richter Belmont.
===Castlevania: Grimoire of Souls===
*One of the collectible items in the game, the Ocelot Beret, is a reference to Ocelot from Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater.
==References==
==External links==
*Metal Gear series at the Metal Gear Wiki
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