10 Best Video Games Set In A Single Night
7. Metal Gear Solid
Ah, the distant future of 2005 - or so it was in 1998 when the original Metal Gear Solid was released. Forced out of retirement by Colonel Roy Campbell, Solid Snake is tasked with infiltrating Shadow Moses Island in Alaska and thwarting a terrorist attack by new members of his old commando unit - Foxhound.
The game opens dramatically to Snake swimming up to the dock and rising to the surface under cover of nightfall. It's still night when you fight Vulcan Raven the first time, and yet still night when you have to save Meryl from Sniper Wolf. And it isn't any less night when you shoot down a helicopter or confront the final boss on top of Metal Gear Rex.
Whether you escape with Otacon or Meryl, the ending occurs just as the sun is rising the following day.
Congratulations, you saved the world, got the Secretary of Defense arrested, and got the girl or guy - depending on ending - of your dreams. All in a night's work.