Solid Sellout: Metal Gear’s Snake Is Now Making Car Commercials For Some Reason

 If you know your shit when it comes to video game voice actors (like a good, stylish, charming, Ego-gent-about-town like yourself should), you’ll probably be familiar with David Hayter. He was the original voice of none other than Solid Snake; iconic growl and studly beard and all of that stuff.  

That classic Snake voice is as legendary as Link’s (hyaarrgh! Kyarrgh! Bwaaaah!). It was as jarring as holy hell when Metal Gear Solid V arrived and was entirely sans Hayter. What the hell happened there? Won’t somebody think of the children?

Around the release of the fifth game, you might also remember, the bromance between series creator Hideo Kojima and Konami ended. We’ll probably never know what all that was about, but Hayter seemed to be another victim of it. There was no love lost between the actor and Kojima either, as ol’ David himself discussed recently. Now that Kojima’s free of the company, the two won’t be working together any time soon, but it looks like someone’s getting their Snake on once more.

Over on Ford’s YouTube channel, a couple of Metal Gear-themed ads have been released. I never thought I’d hear Snake hawking cars, but here he is (with old series buddy Colonel Campbell and creepy-ass foe Psycho Mantis, too), convincing our asses that we totally want a 2017 Ford Fusion Titanium.

I don’t know why this is a thing, but the commercials are certainly a sight to behold. Check them out:

Practical Vehicular Action indeed. 

Via Kotaku.