The Adventures of Rat Patrol Team 01
Metal Gear Spin-Offs We’d Actually Want to Play
Don’t worry, you’re not crazy for finding that title ridiculous. Rat Patrol Team 01 is the team composing of Meryl Silverburgh, Ed, Jonathan, and Johnny Sasaki. The team shows up in Metal Gear Solid IV and has an important role in the game. There’s a decent amount of lore behind the team, enough for a whole game about them; and not just any game: A four-player co-op game. To put it simply, imagine Ghost Recon, but with Metal Gear gameplay and narrative that follows the work of Rat Patrol Team 01. This would let all four players have different purposes based on their skills.
A game like this would be able to maintain many of the mechanics behind The Phantom Pain as seen in its multiplayer mode, which means we already have a proof of concept behind a game like this. Imagine teams coordinating stealth gameplay through sprawling maps filled with enemies. Metal Gear games have always given players tons of ways to deal with enemies, but adding another three players to the mix would make things much more interesting.
