Metal Gear Solid heading to iPhone

By Tom Bramwell Published 17 December, 2008

Out next spring. DDR, Silent Hill this month.

Konami has announced Metal Gear Solid Touch for iPhone and iPod Touch.

Due out next spring, MGS Touch is described as an original game that uses characters and settings from Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots.

In the absence of buttons, it's entirely touch-controlled, with the screen used "for anyone to move their alignment or switch to zoom mode".

The initial game release will include eight levels, with more to be added later, and players will be able to unlock images and wallpapers by finishing them.

You can check out two (very small) screenshots in our Metal Gear Solid Touch screenshot gallery.

MGS Touch is part of a range of new Konami games for the iTunes App Store, with DanceDanceRevolution S Lite, Silent Hill: The Escape and Frogger all due for release later this month.

Of those, DDR and Frogger will work much as you expect (assuming you expect the DDR one to involve tapping arrows, not jumping up and down on your iPhone), whereas Silent Hill is a 3D shooter.

In it, you'll control someone by "sliding a finger across the touch panel screen and changing alignment to target enemies using the built-in altimeter".

The announcement of MGS Touch and friends also lays to rest the rumours earlier this month that an Xbox 360 version was about to be unveiled.

That was based on a teaser page with some green, Xboxy-looking imagery. However, returning to the same URL now reveals a Metal Gear Touch splash screen.

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About Tom Bramwell

Tom is Operations director of Eurogamer Network and Editor-at-Large of Eurogamer.net. He joined the company in February 2000.

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Comments (26) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • Les #1 3 years ago

    Wow, that's a surprise... Or not.

  • andywilkie35 #2 3 years ago

    Well thats a shame aint it. I love MGS but need an iPhone to play it, and have recently upgraded to a different phone. Should have got an iPhone. Oh well

  • the_dudefather #3 3 years ago

    'Xboxy-looking imagery'

    just because you reported it as 'an Xbox 360 power button' in the last story about this doesn't make it true ;)

  • DFawkes #4 3 years ago

    In other news, Metal Gear Soild Mobile was released for the N-Gage platform last week, but got zero coverage. And that was actually released! You can play it right now if you have a newer Nokia.

    I think it's safe to say that's a second failure for N-Gage if a gaming website doesn't even regard it as something that exists. Given the amount of marketing being none, not surprising.

  • Les #5 3 years ago

    "That was based on a teaser page with some green, Xboxy-looking imagery. However, returning to the same URL now reveals a Metal Gear Touch splash screen."

    Xboxy-looking?! More like video game press seeing what they wanted to see to generate hits and fanboy flame wars. There used to be something called monochrome monitors that displayed black and green images...

  • ZuluHero #6 3 years ago

    told you.

    Zuluhero = 1
    EG = 0

    ;)

  • gabsta69 #7 3 years ago

    thats a shame...wanted it on the xbox, oh well.

  • dr_faulk #8 3 years ago

    lol. Looks like the iPhone may just became a stable, popular gaming platform.

  • Mr_Brown #9 3 years ago

    Sounds good, seriously enjoying gaming on my iPhone. Still would like to see MGS4 on the xbox360 though.

  • Steroyd #10 3 years ago

    lmao Xbox-like-image

    It's funny how EG concentrated solely on the green power button, which can apply to any electronic switched on, and completely ignore the "i + !" part of the equation. :)

  • Mildew #11 3 years ago

    Glad I upgraded at the weekend :)

  • drumbaby #12 3 years ago

    It's NEVER coming to Xbox.

  • berelain #13 3 years ago

    blargh! fed up of the iphone gaming craze already. I just upgraded my phone to the HTC Touch HD, which is (technically speaking) far more robust than the iphone and has a larger screen- and includes the same acellerometer and gps and so on- but is anybody releasing games for that? are they bollocks!

    Grr.

  • Kazzahdrane #14 3 years ago

    Oh I totally called this. Go me!

  • JimmyC #15 3 years ago

    I bet it'll just be little more than an interactive movie where you just have to touch/tilt the screen at certain times, like the crappy dark knight game.

  • Cadence #16 3 years ago

    The N-gage MGS is actually pretty good.

  • Les #17 3 years ago

    "I just upgraded my phone to the HTC Touch HD, which is (technically speaking) far more robust than the iphone and has a larger screen- and includes the same acellerometer and gps and so on- but is anybody releasing games for that? are they bollocks!"

    Problem is that hardware these days is just one part of the equation. Software is the other and in most cases far more important one. That's why iPod and iPhone are lightyears ahead of the competition, created by companies that are used to just focus on the hardware. Specs-wise their products often are more impressive. As soon as you start using them though, frustration kicks in.

  • Hughes. #18 3 years ago

    heh, looks like some websites have EGg on their faces!

    My toaster has the same symbol, I now fully expect my 360 to produce toast from the disc tray, if it doesn't, I'm blaming Bertie.

  • Widge #19 3 years ago

    My HTC grinds to a halt frequently. Has a wonderful spec though, so I print that out and hug it.

  • Beano #20 3 years ago

    I also expected a iPhone or Wii game - so not surprised at all.

    But I would have preferred a new MG game on 360 and not a soddy iPhone game.

  • brof #21 3 years ago

    Hi folks,

    I own the IPod Touch (2G) and I was surprised by how many games there are already available for the ipod. it is amazing! I thought, okay, most of it is crap BUT many of them sell for 0,99$ have demo versions... and the crap rate is not that bad... the tilt sensor is very precise (check out Labyrinth)

    there are wonderful games out there like

    DropShip (with vector-like graphics)
    Warfare Inc. (great C&C clone)
    Dizzy Bee (tilt only)
    Galcon
    Toy Bot Diaries (Tilt & Touch)
    Theseus (great logic labyrinth puzzles)
    Chess Genius (really strong chess game by Richard Lang)
    Bounce Trap (Peggle light)
    PlayTypus (clay shmup)
    Aurora Feint (PuzzleLeage with Tilt meets PuzzleQuest)
    Katamari Damacy

    Newtonica2 and Newtonica (by Kenichi Nishi -> ChibiRobo guy)
    Bloom (by Brian Eno generative music stuff)

    THE BACK CATALOG IS FUCKING AMAZING!!! and the games media don't do a good job in covering them....

    now, when I go to the itunes store usually I by some songs and then I add a game for 99cents and I can play customized soundtracks to my games....

    what do you guys think?

    cheers,
    brof

  • fushimi #22 3 years ago

    I would have much preferred a new Metal Gear AC!D for iPhone. The turn-based menu system would have been a better match for the touch screen.

  • peterv #23 3 years ago

    I don't care if MGS4 ever appears on the xbox or not.
    I just wanted to join in with the laughing in the face of Eurogamer,so.

    EUROGAMER,I LAUGH IN YOUR FACE.HA HA HA :)

    Right i am off to laugh in the face of Kotaku.

  • Rangerwave #24 3 years ago

    @ Zero_Cool: I know, damn those Xbox 360 fanboys who want to play a game but are too cheap to spend £340 to play it....yeah them....wait?

  • CosmicFuzz #25 3 years ago

    IGN stated that DDR would only be getting released in America and Japan, not in Europe.

  • MKorkia #26 3 years ago

    In other news, Metal Gear Soild Mobile was released for the N-Gage platform last week, but got zero coverage. And that was actually released! You can play it right now if you have a newer Nokia.

    I think it's safe to say that's a second failure for N-Gage if a gaming website doesn't even regard it as something that exists. Given the amount of marketing being none, not surprising.

    This is probably because Nokia hasn't sent free copy of MGS for Eurogamer.

    But yes, I agree with DFawkes, N-Gage 2.0 will be Nokia's second failure if they don't pretty soon get some coverage.