The Metal Gear Twitter account usually stays fairly consistent, promoting merchandise from the franchise’s many games, fan playthroughs and artwork, official streams and competitions; You know, the usual. Yesterday saw them stray away from that, replying to a Tweet from an account for a fictional employee of the Big Shell. Many believe this to be one of many teases for an upcoming announcement, thought to be a remaster of Metal Gear Solid 2, judging by the screenshots.
The fictional Tom Olsen is a maintenance engineer at the Big Shell, the offshore clean-up facility that was seized by a group of terrorists known as the Sons of Liberty in MGS2. They held the US President to ransom and threatened to destroy the facility if the ransom wasn’t paid. Olsen’s Twitter account started a daily account of his working life at the facility as recently as April 8, sprinkled with plenty of screenshots of the facility out of Metal Gear Solid 2. He even makes references to the infamous photos of women found in the lockers of the facility?apparently they’re his wife, Karen.
A picture of my wife that I keep in my locker. It really helps me get through the day. Love you, Karen. pic.twitter.com/qx5guHZ45r
— Tom Olsen (@TheTomOlsen) April 9, 2021

The Tweet from the Metal Gear account replied to his query as to why the facility was empty. According to the reply, visitors will be arriving at the facility next week and it’s this that fans believe is when we...