10 Awesome Video Game Villains Who Deserve Their Own Title

4. Liquid Snake - Metal Gear Solid

The well-spoken Snake variant with the inferiority complex always seemed like a bit of a dick, so it's reasonable to ask the question, 'Why the hell would I want to play as him?' Well, first of all, he kicks ass in much the same way that Solid does - on a physical level, he's more or less exactly the same person, so automatically lends himself to a stealthy action-adventure in a similar style to MGS. If you've played Metal Gear Solid V, you'll also know that as a 12-year-old boy, Liquid escaped into the African wilderness and became the leader of a community of child soldiers. Admittedly, video games are probably not ready yet to depict children engaging in deadly gun battles, but you can't deny that the story of Eli escaping in Africa and gaining enough respect and notoriety as a child to become the leader of his own Lord of the Flies-style tribe would be fascinating. Such a game could then skip over his time as leader of the tribe - when presumably his child-army did terrible things that are best left un-shown - and the events of Metal Gear Solid V. We'd skip straight to his adulthood, when he worked as part of the Secret Service in the Middle East, joined FOXHOUND with Psycho Mantis and Revolver Ocelot, and built up a private army that would eventually take over Shadow Moses Island and hijack Metal Gear Rex (the events of the original Metal Gear Solid). There's plenty of story to be told, though Konami would have to tone down on Liquid's Etonian snootiness to make him a bit more likeable.