Now that the Metal Gear Solid movie is a go, who will step into the iconic shoes of Solid Snake? Series creator Hideo Kojima had originally wanted a star like Hugh Jackman, but has since reconsidered. A "rising star would be better suited for the role," a new report by Clevver details, because actors like Jackman are already "associated with a particular character." Oh Jackman, you'll always be Leopold in our hearts.
It's refreshing to see a Metal Gear that wholly embraces its bizarre and campy nature. Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance's latest trailer from Tokyo Game Show is more than five minutes long and shows off a variety of new cyborg foes. See Raiden cut through robot dogs, a multi-armed-robo-lady (above), and best of all--see Mexican Raiden.
Zone of the Enders HD Collection will be available on Xbox 360 and PS3 on October 30th. On the disc are newly revamped versions of Zone of the Enders and the European special edition version of Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner. In addition to new HD graphics, the collection will feature new opening animations created by animation house Sunrise.
Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes is mixing up the MGS formula in some key ways, most notably its open world. Series creator Hideo Kojima has revealed a few more changes coming to this iteration of the stealth-action series, intended to add replay value to the title.
We've been told for quite a while that Project Ogre is Kojima Productions' open-world debut to show off the new FOX Engine. So last week when the developer showed off Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes, an open-world game running on the FOX Engine, many of us naturally assumed the two were one-in-the-same. But you know what they say about assuming.
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Penny Arcade Expo attendees were treated to the very first footage of Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes. Running on a PC with specs comparable to current-gen consoles, Ground Zero is the first game to show off Kojima Productions' new Fox Engine--and boy, is it a beaut.
Watch this ten-minute debut trailer to see Fox Engine show off its shaders, and impressive lighting and particle effects. The game is currently announced for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.
Welcome to the Friday edition of the Morning Caffeinated, folks. Read it for your you morning jolt of gaming goodness to get you through the day leading into the glorious weekend.
I don't know about you, but the season premiere of Doctor Who is looking really good for tomorrow evening. If you've been in Chatty, then you know I've been enjoying the Pond Life prequel episodes. From the good Doctor alarming Rory and Amy into a sleepless night or the "Ood on the loo" (as Ambient80 so eloquently put it), they have been pretty entertaining and a good tease for season 7. The last one is up today and is a bit more ominous than the last four. Will be interesting to see how it all ties together with the Daleks tomorrow night.
There have been several attempts at a Metal Gear Solid movie over the years, and one terrifying prank involving Uwe Boll, but one's properly in production now at Columbia Pictures. Avi Arad, who's produced two decades of Marvel's comic book movies--both good and bad--is attached, and quite enthusiastic.
Read more: "We will ... tell the story with all the nuances" »
In conjunction with the 25th anniversary of the Metal Gear series, Kojima Productions and Konami announced the first open-world game in the franchise, the Fox engine-driven Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes, which attempts to take the series beyond its traditional stealth roots.
When Konami originally announced Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance at E3 2009 under the more sensible name of Metal Gear Solid: Rising, it had planned to release a PC edition. This notion was casually dropped when the game was reborn at PlatinumGames, but now Konami has said it'll "contemplate" making a PC port after it launches the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 editions.
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Perhaps you didn't want to revisit Raiden's naked body in HD? Or maybe you were afraid of creating high-definition time paradoxes? If for some reason you didn't want the Metal Gear Solid HD Collection, and only wanted to buy each game piecemeal, now's your chance.
Starting August 21, Konami will be offering each game in the HD Collection separately. The release schedule and line-up is different across every platform, however.
Unless you enjoyed watching Snake smoke a cigarette, one of the most frustrating aspects of playing Metal Gear Solid 4 was enduring the lengthy mandatory installation screens between each chapter. It was a jarring process, one that interrupted the flow of the game (and was arguably worse than having to swap discs). Thankfully, next week's trophy patch for MGS4 also adds a new option: the ability to install all of the game data to your hard drive, removing these pesky mid-game breaks.
The big gimmick of awkwardly-named, action-packed off-shoot Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance is Raiden's ability to carefully prune enemies of undesirable body parts with precision strokes of his sword. But gosh, you may ask, how ever does this work in practice? Have a gander at a new snippet from the game's tutorial.
When trophies were first introduced to PlayStation 3 years ago, many fans had hoped that Konami would release a patch for Metal Gear Solid 4. While hopes were long dashed, it seems fans voices have finally been heard.
Four years after the game made its debut, the Guns of the Patriots will be getting its long-overdue trophy patch. The patch will coincide with the Japanese budget reissue of the game in August.
The Metal Gear Solid HD Collection just made it to the Vita, offering sneaking on the go. But contrary to its name, it isn't quite HD, failing to run at Vita's native 540p resolution, to boot. Astute pixel-counters have noticed a few graphical shortcuts in the game, but it isn't all bad news.
"have they said which storyline they'd take on? 1 or 3 would make the most sense. "
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