Ranking All Of Metal Gear Solid's Boss Battles From Worst To Best

3. The Boss (MGS 3)

The final boss fight in MGS 3 is an extremely cinematic and emotionally charged showdown between Big Boss and his mentor, The Boss, in a lily field. This battle defines epic and unforgettable, and the game's CQC mechanics make it a lot more nuanced than the other straight-up fist-fights in the series. Though The Boss is certainly a formidable enemy, she's not infuriatingly tough, and some well-timed CQC (or far-away shooting) will bring her down without too many problems, as long as you avoid the brutal spray of her Patriot machine gun. The battle concludes with one of the most devastating sequences in not just the series but gaming history, as a wounded Boss gives Snake her Patriot, which he then uses to put her down with a single bullet, but Kojima ingeniously forces the player to pull their trigger at their own leisure. With an epic setting, superb characters and an emotionally gratifying payoff, it doesn't get much better than this.