• Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes Announced, Running on Fox Engine

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    Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes Announced, Running on Fox Engine

    Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes Announced, Running on Fox Engine

    At the Metal Gear Solid 25th Anniversary event in Japan today, Konami and Kojima Productions offered the first glimpse of Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes the new entry of the popular franchise, unlike the previous installments, this game is said to be an open-world and features realtime cut-scenes and of course running on Kojima’s new Fox Engine.

    No filming was allowed to show the 20 minute demo of Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes, but according to GameSpot the gameplay demo took place in a remote, rainy military base.

    “The demo gave out a sandbox open-world vibe; the military base itself felt expansive and huge, and Snake can summon a helicopter to bring him around as well as drive a jeep to go from point A to B. Kojima did state that he wishes to add a new spin to the stealth genre; even when you’re discovered, you can use all the means and tools to escape rather than see a “game over” screen. “

    Given the Militaires Sans Frontières logo on Snake’s suit we assume this is Big Boss (Naked Snake) and this is another Shadow Moses entry.

    Militaires Sans Frontières

    Militaires Sans Frontières

    Also revealed today that a Metal Gear Solid movie is also in the works, courtesy of Sony and Columbia Pictures.

     

  • Metal Gear Solid Movie Announced

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    Metal Gear Solid Movie Announced

    Metal Gear Solid Movie Announced

    At the Metal Gear Solid 25th Anniversary event in Japan producer Avi Arad announced that Metal Gear Solid movie is in works.

    There has been a lot of talk in the past about Metal Gear Solid movie but it seems that idea wasn’t ready until now. Sony and Columbia Pictures are producing.

    Avi Arad, who’s well known as the producer of X-Men and Spider-Man, said:

    for many years I fought to bring comics to theaters… and video games are the comics of today.

    Are you excited about the new Metal Gear Solid movie?

  • The Original Metal Gear: Rising Was Cancelled

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    Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance

    Kojima Productions has been clearing up some rumors and misconceptions regarding Metal Gear Rising Revengeance following the game’s unveiling yesterday.

    The original Rising was announced as a game where you can chop up anything. The development staff quickly created just that. However, they felt that this alone would be insufficient and they no longer knew what the core of the game should be

    Believing the project would not get completed, Kojima secretly cancelled it. At this point the Kojima team had already fleshed out many areas of the game such as story and motion capture work, and eventually Bayonetta and Vanquish developer Platinum expressed its passion for the project and offered its services in reinventing and completing Rising.

    The title was changed because the game is different from the Metal Gear Solid series. It’s a new Metal Gear.

    “We’ve only said that the period setting is several years after MGS4. Metal Gear Rising is not part of the Metal Gear Solid series. At present, we can’t say more than this,” Kojima posted on Twitter.

    Kojima has also confirmed Rising will run at 60 frames per second, a requirement he personally requested..

    “I made one request of Platinum: a cool Raiden who moves nice and smooth at 60 frames per second.”

    When restarting the project, they were originally going to use the original story. After Platinum received the data from Kojima Productions, they said they wanted to remake the story.

    [via andriasang]

  • Hideo Kojima Talks Metal Gear Solid 5

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    "Snake was supposed to die"

    Hideo Kojima has confirmed in a interview with the Official PlayStation Magazine that Metal Gear Solid 5 is a reality, and that he will be in charge of the game’s development. More info will be revealed by Kojima in the December issue of the Official PlayStation Magazine. This will be the first time in the 16-year history of Official PlayStation Magazine a developer will grace the magazines’ cover.

    Hideo Kojima on the cover of Official PlayStation Magazine

    The developer will also talk about the upcoming Metal Gear Solid Rising and his desire to kill off series protagonist Solid Snake. In Kojima’s own words, “Snake was supposed to die“.

    Previously, Kojima Productions has confirmed that Yuji Korekado is the new producer of Metal Gear Solid: Rising, replacing Shigenobu Matsuyama. More game details to be revealed in the upcoming VGA.

    The December issue of Official PlayStation Magazine will be available November 29th.