Unlock all 40 emblems in Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 2! Learn the requirements for Big Boss, Fox Hound, and more, plus their unique rewards.
This section details the various emblems, or codenames, awarded upon completion of Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 2. Earning these emblems requires fulfilling specific in-game conditions and can unlock special rewards.
Emblems and How to Earn Them
There are forty emblems in total, and unlike in previous titles, you can earn multiple emblems in a single play-through.
Big Boss
How It's Earned: Complete the game under the following requirements:
- Difficulty: The Boss Extreme
- Continues: Zero
- Alerts: Zero (Cautions are fine)
- Healing Items Used: Zero (including non-ration items like noodles)
- Kills: Zero (including all bosses)
- Completion Time: Under five hours
- Special Items Used: None
What It Unlocks: The Patriot machine gun, the Big Boss face camo, and the Big Boss iPod song.
Fox Hound
How It's Earned: Complete the game under the following requirements:
- Difficulty: Big Boss Hard or higher
- Continues: Zero
- Alerts: Under three
- Healing Items Used: Zero (including non-ration items like noodles)
- Kills: Zero (including all bosses)
- Completion Time: Under five hours and thirty minutes
- Special Items Used: None
What It Unlocks: The Thor .45-70 pistol.
Fox
How It's Earned: Complete the game under the following requirements:
- Difficulty: Solid Normal or higher
- Continues: Zero
- Alerts: Five or fewer
- Healing Items Used: Zero (including non-ration items like noodles)
- Kills: Zero (including all bosses)
- Completion Time: Under six hours
- Special Items Used: None
What It Unlocks: The long-barreled Desert Eagle.
Hound
How It's Earned: Complete the game under the following requirements:
- Difficulty: Naked Normal or higher
- Continues: Zero
- Alerts: Under three
- Healing Items Used: Zero (including non-ration items like noodles)
- Kills: Zero (including all bosses)
- Completion Time: Under six hours and thirty minutes
- Special Items Used: None
What It Unlocks: The Type 17 pistol.
Mantis
How It's Earned: Complete the game under the following requirements:
- Continues: Zero
- Alerts: Zero
- Healing Items Used: Zero (including non-ration items like noodles)
- Completion Time: Under five hours
What It Unlocks: Nothing
Wolf
How It's Earned: Complete the game without using any healing items like rations, noodles, or Regain.
What It Unlocks: Nothing
Raven
How It's Earned: Finish the game in less than five hours.
What It Unlocks: Nothing
Octopus
How It's Earned: Play through the game without setting off a single alert phase.
What It Unlocks: Stealth Camouflage
Bear
How It's Earned: Eliminate one hundred enemies using CQC chokeholds.
What It Unlocks: Nothing
Eagle
How It's Earned: Register 150 or more headshots.
What It Unlocks: Nothing
Assassin
How It's Earned: Stun or kill more than fifty enemies with the knife, have more than fifty CQC chokeholds, and have fewer than 25 alerts.
What It Unlocks: The Altair disguise.
Pigeon
How It's Earned: Finish the game with zero kills, including bosses.
What It Unlocks: The Bandana (infinite ammo).
Blue Bird
How It's Earned: Give fifty healing items to the
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