Monday, September 19, 2005

Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of The Patriots


In this Tokyo Game Show 2005, Konami debuts the official trailer of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of The Patriots on Playstation3. The entire trailer is created and played real time on the PS3 hardware. This is one of the tradition of Metal Gear Solid series--no pre-rendered movie, and this is one of the reasons I admire Hideo Kojima so much.
If you have ever tried buliding 3d models/scenes, you get to know how hard it would be creating all objects, effects, environments in real time method, means no photoshoping at all.
Talk about the trailer, it shows the brand new ultra-realism style created by PS3 which is almost identical to CG movies.
When I saw some screen shots before watching the trailer, all shots focus on an old man wearing a Solid Snake Style Sneaking Suit (SSSSS?!). Which makes me doubt he is Solid Snake. But once I heard "This is Snake, can you hear me?", all things cleared.
Why Snake become an old man while Otacon looks just a bit mature? According to Liquid Snake, Metal Gear Solid on PS1, all clones of the Big Boss suffer from fast aging. Solid Snake in MGS2: Sons of Liberity looks elder then his age. After the X years pasted the Big Shell incident, it is quite reasonable Solid Snake gets older than that. However, besides getting old, Snake once in huge pain and has injection for cure. It makes me think of FOXDIE, which kills Liquid in Shadow Mosses Island. I started thinking Snake will die in Guns of Patriots. Speaking of the subtitle, it always contains the key factors of the story. MGS4 will continue the story line of MGS2, that's for sure and was stated some time ago. The story of MGS4 might be focusing on the Patriots(or the Philosophers in MGS3), and the new Metal Gear MoonLight in the trailers hints the technology of Metal Gear is now even more popular and more personalize/portable. You may think the new Metal Gear weird, or freaky, or even something Silent Hill. But lets look into it, it combines the upper part of Metal Gear Rex and modified legs of Metal Gear Ray(now with toes!). Which means adding strong fire power to superior mobility(Ray does jump and swim like u do). If Snake really die in MGS4, it suits the annoucement of Hideo Kojima retiring from the production after MGS4, everything will have a new start. I really appreciate his decision. Hey, he has been working on this series for 10 years now! I'd rather see something new from him, maybe on Nintendo Revolution?
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