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  • How Short Is Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes? Is “Da Fuq?” An Answer?

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    Photo courtesy gamingbolt.com

    The new issue of Game Informer has all kinds of Snake fun with coverage of Metal Gear Solid V, but it is news about the game’s prequel, Ground Zeroes, that is making all the kerfuffle.

    BTW- kerfuffle is an actual word. No spell check went off so I had to see for myself.

    It seems that the main story of Ground Zeroes took them all of two hours to beat.

    Two.

    Hours.

    Two hours.

    Now this was not including any side quests or extra exclusives but can you really imagine them adding much more than an hour or two more to the proceedings?

    For a “game” that has a price range of $20-$40 that is low-class hooker territory for 2-4 hours.

    I have a feeling this will be included in a “special edition” of MGS V whenever it is released, so I will be waiting until then to play it. Sure, there are plenty of indie games priced around the same for a few hours of content but I, and you, should expect more from a franchise this big.

  • One Snake, Two Snake, Red Snake, Blue Snake. Metal Gear Solid: The Legacy Collection Trailer

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    Photo courtesy shacknews.com

    How much Solid Snake can you handle?

    Wait…let’s do that over.

    This video is exploding with Solid Snake.

    Dammit.

    Just watch the trailer for [amazon_link id=”B00CTKHXFO” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]Metal Gear Solid: The Legacy Collection[/amazon_link] that releases on July 9th.

  • Hideo Kojima Wants To Remake Metal Gear Solid Using Fox Engine

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    Photo courtesy cinekatz.com

    How many times can Metal Gear Solid be re-released? Creator Hideo Kojima is hoping for at least one more (not including [amazon_link id=”B00CTKHXFO” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]Metal Gear Solid: The Legacy Collection[/amazon_link]).

    The master of 45 minutes cutscenes and stealthy horse riding confirmed that he is wanting to find a team that can tackle a remake of the 1998 PS One classic using his new Fox Engine seen in Metal Gear Solid V.

    This excites me greatly. Sure we have had many re-releases of MGS, including the awesome Gamecube exclusive [amazon_link id=”B0000A09EN” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes[/amazon_link], but if I can get the original assault on Shadow Moses looking as good as MGS V then I am fully behind Kojima  on this one.

  • Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance Gets A Cover, Keeps Idiotic Name

    You like to slice things up with big shiny blades? Do you like Metal Gear games without any Snakes in them (looking at you MGS 2)? Then here is the cover art for Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance. It’s shiny.

    Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance releases on February 19, 2013.

  • Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes Revealed And It’s Open World. (UPDATED)

    Konami rocked the Metal Gear world overnight while you were sleeping. At the Metal Gear 25th annivesary event in Japan, Kojima and company unveiled the newest Metal Gear Solid game and they are going where no MGS has gone before, into the open world.

    Called Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes, show goers got to see Big Boss (yes Big Boss) sneaking around a base in a nighttime rain while he dodged spotlights and broke some necks then hopping in a Jeep to make a great escape. And that is where the big news comes in that the game is always running. If Boss had gone undetected then the game still runs or even if he is discovered then he needs to focus on escaping all in real time. So it sounds like the mission parameters are always evolving. Just how “open world” the game is really hasn’t been discussed either. But it sounds far and away like Kojima’s most ambitious project ever.

    The game was said to be running on the new Fox Engine on current gen PC’s and looked stunning. The word out of the event is the game is being built with the 360 and PS3 in mind but I just simply don’t see that happening with the current console cycle being in it’s final year or two. Plus we all know how long we wait for MGS games so just go ahead and mark this down as a next gen title.

    What do you think? Is this the next logical step for the Metal Gear franchise?

    UPDATE!!!!

    News out of PAX this weekend (9/1) is that Ground Zeroes is in fact built for the PS3 and plans on releasing for this generation of consoles. This is good to hear but we still know how Kojima is so there still may be a chance this hops consoles. It was also announced that MGS: Ground Zeroes would be a prologue to Metal Gear Solid 5.