Metal Gear Solid: 16 Mind-Blowing Easter Eggs You Totally Missed
13. Grey Fox's Corridor Voices Are Train Stations
The incredibly haunting corridor where you first get up and personal with Grey Fox's devastating use of a kitana remains one of the most bone-chilling scenes in gaming history. It's a mix of macabre imagery, Snake himself being justifiably freaked out, quick camera-cuts between the dismembered corpses themselves - and an overlaid audio clip that sounds like a garbled mess of ghosts all talking over each other. However, whilst fans theorised it could be anything from the directors all getting their voices in the game, to audio from any of Kojima's previous games, the official Metal Gear Solid Handbook from 1998 confirms that they are "actual names of Tokyo train stations on the Yamanote, Neo Kobe, and Myõken Lines" - albeit sped up and altered. A great bonus fact, is later in MGS 2 when Emma's virus has taken hold and the Colonel's ramblings kick in, one of the random codec calls you'll receive will have him recanting the following names at an extremely fast pace:
