[Pre-E3 2006] MGS4 Trailer Unveiled
We've seen it, and it's freakin' amazing.
Published: May 9, 2006
There are times when working as press in the industry is awesome. It affords us glimpses into stuff early, and, well, we get to rub it in everyone's faces when we're not feeling quite so modest. Like right now. We've just returned from Konami's pre-E3 press conference and bore witness to the first full-length (or at least full glimpse) peek at Metal Gear Solid 4.
While the teaser released a while back was both real-time and damned impressive, it was never meant to be a real reveal of the game's plot or characters. Of course Hideo Kojima can't just let a planned couple-minute peek go, and he expanded it into the 10 or so minutes that got everyone salivating over the PS3 (at least until they saw what it would cost to own one in which case the brain tends to get caught in a logic loop and reboots a couple of times).
Now, fresh from our viewing of the full trailer (a much shorter version was shown off at the Sony press conference last night), we can confidently state that it will blow you away. It's not just the graphics (this full trailer is still running completely in real-time on the PS3 hardware -- something that should be apparent the second you see the serious slowdown about halfway into it), but the characters, the storyline and the eerily melancholy mood that permeates it. Old Snake is a tired, war-ragged codger, and it's likely this will be the most powerful cinematic experience games will see yet.
The trailer will no doubt hit the web tomorrow when tons of video cameras will begin taping the full thing as it runs every hour at Konami's booth, and the official Kojima Productions web site will surely be streaming the thing, but it's important to note just how moody the video is -- at least up until the end when a certain cyborg ninja seen in a previous MGS game makes an appearance and absolutely steals the show.
Snake's comments about the future of war is at once prophetic and foreboding, and the trailer moves from holy-shit-that's-awesome to oh-god-he's-not-really-going-to-do-that-is-he moments in the blink of an eye. In just a few hours, you too will know the goodness that will be upon PS3 gamers at some point in 2007.
While the teaser released a while back was both real-time and damned impressive, it was never meant to be a real reveal of the game's plot or characters. Of course Hideo Kojima can't just let a planned couple-minute peek go, and he expanded it into the 10 or so minutes that got everyone salivating over the PS3 (at least until they saw what it would cost to own one in which case the brain tends to get caught in a logic loop and reboots a couple of times).
Now, fresh from our viewing of the full trailer (a much shorter version was shown off at the Sony press conference last night), we can confidently state that it will blow you away. It's not just the graphics (this full trailer is still running completely in real-time on the PS3 hardware -- something that should be apparent the second you see the serious slowdown about halfway into it), but the characters, the storyline and the eerily melancholy mood that permeates it. Old Snake is a tired, war-ragged codger, and it's likely this will be the most powerful cinematic experience games will see yet.
The trailer will no doubt hit the web tomorrow when tons of video cameras will begin taping the full thing as it runs every hour at Konami's booth, and the official Kojima Productions web site will surely be streaming the thing, but it's important to note just how moody the video is -- at least up until the end when a certain cyborg ninja seen in a previous MGS game makes an appearance and absolutely steals the show.
Snake's comments about the future of war is at once prophetic and foreboding, and the trailer moves from holy-shit-that's-awesome to oh-god-he's-not-really-going-to-do-that-is-he moments in the blink of an eye. In just a few hours, you too will know the goodness that will be upon PS3 gamers at some point in 2007.
