Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain is set nine years after the events of MGSV: Ground Zeroes and the fall of Mother Base. Snake, also known as Big Boss, wakes up from a nine-year coma in 1984, against the backdrop of the Cold War, where nuclear weapons continue to shape a global crisis. Driven by revenge, Snake establishes a new private army and returns to the battlefield to confront the shadowy organization XOF.