10 Greatest Video Game Post-Final Boss Fights
8. Liquid Snake - Metal Gear Solid
Who doesn't love Liquid Snake?
In a game whose rogue gallery included a psychic in bondage gear, a chaingun-toting shaman and a cyborg ninja, Liquid still managed to stand out. Played to scenery-chewing perfection by veteran voice actor Cam Clarke, Liquid was a cracking villain.
Of course, part of what made him so memorable was that he had more lives than a Buddhist cat. By the end of the game, Liquid had survived:
- Having his helicopter shot down
- Being trapped inside an exploding mech.
- Being beaten half to death and thrown off aforesaid mech.
- Having several dozen heavy machine gun rounds pumped into his bare torso in a car chase.
It's the latter point that qualifies Liquid as a Post-Final boss. Unless you are unbelievably cack-handed, the car chase is almost impossible to screw up. Instead, it's all about the drama of the moment as you fire round after round into a seemingly unkillable madman in a desperate bid to escape the self-destructing Shadow Moses facility.
It was a suitably wild finale to the original Metal Gear Solid, and a fitting send-off for a great nemesis.