10 Legendary Video Game Heroes You Won't Recognise Now

10. Snake - Metal Gear Solid

"How can you compare Solid to Venom Snake?!" the fans will cry, and yes of course these are different characters in the canon of the series, but being they're all cut from the same gene-splicing experiment to be biologically-identical clones, it's an apt comparison.

Like some metaphor for the franchise itself, the new character design is emblematic of how far creator Hideo Kojima has tacked and bolted on various things to a still-brilliant core gameplay model. From a piece of shrapnel doubling as a horn (connoting Snake's 'descent into madness' arc in upcoming Phantom Pain) to a red bionic arm, eyepatch and face scar, the MGS of 2015 is a very different beast to that of 1998.