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Marionette Owl - Its dark, so you're gonna want to equip some night vision. This guy has two dolls you dont want to shoot, so just fire at him. When you run low on life, use some rations. When Owl lobs something besides a knife, take off the night vision, or it will screw up for a while. Just assault him with your gun or assault rifle until he's dead.
Pyro Bison - He's got a flame thrower, so watch out. It has three attacks for differant ranges. At close range he sweeps it in a 90 to 180 degree arc several times. This is really dangerous because it can hit you multiple times and flatline you. Avoid it by backing off. At a long distance, he shoots fire up high and it lands on the ground napalm style. Avoid it by watching the ground for shadows. In between those distances is a medium attack which sorta sends a fire beam at you. Avoid this one by side stepping it. When you take off half his life he starts to move faster and attacks more often. When he's really running low, Bison starts to use his flamethrower as a jetpack. Watch for the shadow that indicates where he will land, then throw a well timed grenade to hit him, and he's toast.
Helicopter - You catch a glimpse of the pilot boarding, who looks suspiciously like one of your allies. The helicopter kicks your ass in three forms: machine gun fire, missles, and bombs. Whats worse is it can only be damaged while using its machine gun. Basically, don't waste those nikita missles in earlier levels, so you can nail it from a safe distance, and get all the rations you can. If you run out, switch to grenades. Once you're down to grenades, just damage it when its on the sides, after it stops shooting the machine gun. While it is shooting, hide up against the rock pillars to avoid getting hit. Should it fly to the other side, watch the radar for help on dodging the bombs it drops at you. Using this technique you can actually beat the copter without getting hit.
Black Arts Viper - The room is made up of Vipers main weapon, a laser grid. All the small pillars you see are where the lasers are emitted from. Viper activates the laser grid and it forms random grids, so sometimes you can run halfway across the screen and others you may only be able to move a couple of paces. Also he activates explosives in the floor. You will see them and then have a couple of seconds to get away from it before they blow up. Basically make your way around to Viper, avoiding both the lasers and the explosives and shoot at Viper. He soon goes down.
Metal Gear - To damage Metal Gear's legs you must place either C4 Plastique or a Landmine where it is about to step. If you fall back to far Metal Gear will toast you with its Flamethrower. Run to the bottom of the screen in line with the shadow of one of Metal Gear's feet. Now as soon as the shadow passes over Solid Snake lay the explosive, if your laying Landmines make sure your run to the side before running down after you place it or you will cause more damage to yourself then to Metal Gear & if you are laying C4 Plastique make sure you detonate it when Metal Gear's foot comes down. This technique will always work with Metal Gear's right foot (on the left of the screen), but it may not work with its left foot. To have a better chance of it working on its left foot stay still a little while after laying the explosive. After 6 explosives Metal Gear will be crippled.
Now that Metal Gear is crippled you have to take out the rest of it. Well it can't move so it must be easy. Well not quite. Before the battle starts you are shown three points of Metal Gear. The first point are twin guns, the second post are gun posts and the last point launches missiles. At the beginning you only need to worry about the guns. These are the only firing points. After a while two drones appear and move all over the screen. Don't worry to much about these as they only take pot shots at you. The key to defeating Metal Gear is taking care of things in order. You need to destroy the gun posts first. The gun posts are the second target you are shown and there is one either side of Metal Gear. You can only damage the gun post when it is active, i.e. firing at you. To do this hit the machine gun with a grenade (first target you are shown) and the gun post will retaliate by raising and taking several shots at you. Use either grenades or nikita missiles on it. Eventually it will go down, so start on the opposite side. When both are destroyed the missile barrage will start. Whenever you hit the machine guns the missiles will launch at you. You should move to an open area where you can dodge the missiles. There are usually around 6-8 missiles per barrage. Just keep focusing on the machine gun (only choose one) after a while, when Metal Gears energy reaches about 1/4, all of the other attacks will stop and Metal Gear will start attacking with a flame thrower from the mouth area. Just dodge the flames, which attack in a three streams, and lob grenades at the mouth area. Eventually Metal Gear will go down. It will be close, especially seeing as it will take nearly all of your grenades and nikita missiles to take it down.
Final Fight with Viper - You have 90 seconds to kill him. The only problem is that every time you hit him he uses a flash grenade and disappears. The trick is this; if you are on the left hand side of the lift when you shoot him he will use the flash grenade and then head to the right hand side of the lift. Use your assault rifle and he should be no problem, especially after beating Metal Gear.