@Name Last Name, That is exactly why I qualified the term Patriots as being not only zero but his AI network as well.
The thing that bugs me most about that is they gloss over who Raiden is and what him being selected for the S3 program actually means. If they chose someone who was a child soldier like Solid was it highly infers that Big Boss himself was a child soldier studying under The Boss like Raiden did with Solidus.
You obviously didn't pay close attention to the storyline. The whole point of the game was the Patriots (Agent Zero and his AI network) trying to complete S3 (Solid Snake Simulation). That wouldn't work if Snake fights Solidus. That is why the events of Mgs2 mimic Mgs1 and Mgs3. Mgs1 was setup to turn Solid into a legendary soldier just like Big Boss and the same goes for Raiden. Zero needed another great soldier to manipulate international policy like he had done with Big Boss after ...
How do you Fuck up a MK.23 that badly and still charge that much money for it? That's probably one of the most iconic looking firearms of the 20th century and you can't even replicate it properly?