Metal Gear Solid 4 Spotted!
The details are out, an official site launched, and Snake’s still got a mullet!
Published: September 22, 2005
If you listened, verrrry closely around this time last week, you could faintly hear the cheers and roars of a Tokyo crowd’s response to the debut trailer of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (yup, that's confirmed). Who’d’ve thunk such aural giddiness could resonate overseas? Either way, it’s no mystery that Kojima and co. are giving the PlayStation 3 a run for its money in what is actually the true follow-up to 2001’s Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty. Excited? No? Get off the ritalin, boy, this is MGS we’re talking about!
Upon first glance at the footage, critics and fans were no doubt flummoxed. “Guh? A first person shooter?” they questioned, and justifiably so, as the trailer begins through the eyes of a automatic-wielding soldier among his squad, strategically navigating through a city in ruins and under attack, so it seems. But several seconds and a few clever acronyms for “FPS” later, this soldier in the first person utters a grunt as he has his weapon seized and is soon violently flipped over by none other than… Raiden!
…just kidding, it’s Snake.
As witnessed in the trailer, MGS4 thrusts us into the near future with a Solid Snake who hasn’t turned in his… er, bandana, quite yet. It’s glaring: Snake has aged significantly, and it’s not just in the hair. As the trailer suggests, health conditions may be working against him as well, as he at one point falls to his knees in pain before sticking a medicated needle to his neck. We’re curious to see how this may hinder his abilities over the course of the game.
So what be going on in the meantime, you ask? All this clever sneaking is going on for a reason, as Snake soon takes a vantage point to witness massively armed machines slowly roll down a main dirt path as cautious soldiers guard their every side. Here’s our new enemy, so it seems, but exactly what their intentions are a mystery for now. We have a hunch they're not good.
Rumors of Otacon’s return were also confirmed, but who knew he’d come in the form of a dancing robot? Gotta see it to believe it, as you might suspect.
Some classic Konami humor pokes its head into the trailer to boot, such as Snake doggedly trying to light a cigarette, through constantly interrupted, and a shameless PS3 plug that rounds out the end of the footage.
So take our word on it, folks… actually, no, you know what, don’t. Head to the official MGS4 site yourself ("No place to hide?" "To let the world be?" Just what does it all mean?), or as we'd recommend, hit up the trailer directly as listed below.
[ Metal Gear Solid 4 TGS 2005 trailer | 27 MB | 8:54 ]
Prepare to be blown away.
Upon first glance at the footage, critics and fans were no doubt flummoxed. “Guh? A first person shooter?” they questioned, and justifiably so, as the trailer begins through the eyes of a automatic-wielding soldier among his squad, strategically navigating through a city in ruins and under attack, so it seems. But several seconds and a few clever acronyms for “FPS” later, this soldier in the first person utters a grunt as he has his weapon seized and is soon violently flipped over by none other than… Raiden!
…just kidding, it’s Snake.
As witnessed in the trailer, MGS4 thrusts us into the near future with a Solid Snake who hasn’t turned in his… er, bandana, quite yet. It’s glaring: Snake has aged significantly, and it’s not just in the hair. As the trailer suggests, health conditions may be working against him as well, as he at one point falls to his knees in pain before sticking a medicated needle to his neck. We’re curious to see how this may hinder his abilities over the course of the game.
So what be going on in the meantime, you ask? All this clever sneaking is going on for a reason, as Snake soon takes a vantage point to witness massively armed machines slowly roll down a main dirt path as cautious soldiers guard their every side. Here’s our new enemy, so it seems, but exactly what their intentions are a mystery for now. We have a hunch they're not good.
Rumors of Otacon’s return were also confirmed, but who knew he’d come in the form of a dancing robot? Gotta see it to believe it, as you might suspect.
Some classic Konami humor pokes its head into the trailer to boot, such as Snake doggedly trying to light a cigarette, through constantly interrupted, and a shameless PS3 plug that rounds out the end of the footage.
So take our word on it, folks… actually, no, you know what, don’t. Head to the official MGS4 site yourself ("No place to hide?" "To let the world be?" Just what does it all mean?), or as we'd recommend, hit up the trailer directly as listed below.
[ Metal Gear Solid 4 TGS 2005 trailer | 27 MB | 8:54 ]
Prepare to be blown away.