MGS4 database on PS3 Store today News
PlayStation 3 News by Robert Purchese
Sony will be popping a special Metal Gear Solid 4 database application on the US PlayStation Store today.
It's free to use and has an official brain that knows everything about Metal Gear, according to the Sony US blog. That means complete storylines, character profiles, relationship diagrams and more.
So if you want to play MGS4 but were a bit worried you knew nothing about the series, this will be a good place to start.
The program also sounds as if it knows when you finish Metal Gear Solid 4 (it is a brain) as until you do, spoilers will be blacked-out to avoid ruining your summer and maybe your life.
And yes it gets more exciting with an extras option in the main menu that gives you access to free downloadable content. So far there is a new camouflage for Snake plus some music to play on your in-game iPod. More to come, apparently.
There's no word on whether Europe will also get access to the database, but we're literally checking right now. Besides, you could always be cheeky and set yourself up with a US PSN account anyway.
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DavidBoring
19/06/08 @ 08:04
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a european release is very likely. even the japanese version has german text for example.
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dominalien
19/06/08 @ 08:25
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This is actually a very smart move. Shows a lot of goodwill and it comes out just in time (at least for the Americans).
I haven't played much, but I really like what I've seen so far. |
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tonynibbles
19/06/08 @ 08:31
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This is fantastic!
Still, Im surprised EG bothered to post this with those review scores, ahem. |
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the_dudefather
19/06/08 @ 09:07
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good idea, I've finished the other games but i still have trouble remembering who's who and what happened when
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tomacwhite
19/06/08 @ 10:24
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Just tried the database (available on Japanese store, running on Japanese PS3), and its really cool. Firstly, it picked up my UK gamesave and asked if I wanted to hide MGS4 information, and it did. Basically, its like a super in-depth wikipedia guide to the Metal Gear (Solid) universe. Characters, items, locations, relationships, everything you can think of. There are links within entrys like a wiki so you can jump around very easily.
The best thing is that everything MGS4 specific is blackout so you can't ruin the game for yourself. |
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Penguinzoot
19/06/08 @ 11:17
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I'm not a big MGS fan, (haven't played since MGS2), but I really like the idea of this. I'll probably give it a look later. Maybe it'll spur me into giving MGS4 a go ;-)
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Neither the Japanese nor US MGS Databases pick up my UK save game on my UK machine either, which is a shame really. Why it doesn't allow you to override the lockout I don't know. What if someone just wants to check out the entire history of MGS without having played the latest game at all? A ridiculous suggestion maybe but it is a database after all and doesn't require the game to be present to access it for anything except MGS 4.
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@Arbiter - I've been told by a developer that the 360's HDD is actually slower to access data in most cases than the 12X DVD drive - it's the reason Marketplace demos don't load any faster off the HDD than the final disc-based games. So having MGS 4 install onto the HDD would actually be slower than running the game off the disc. Thus if MGS 4 did come to the Xbox 360, it would have marginally slower loading times (if 360 DMC4 vs. the installed PS3 version is anything to go by) and likely have one Act per DVD meaning the game would come on five discs with prompts to change them at the point where the PS3 installs data. If anything that would be quicker than the two minutes PS3 owners have to wait. The PS3 version has been confirmed to be 32 GB which means each Act is approx. 6 GBs, which will fit on a single DVD9, even the 360's restricted proprietary format. All hypothetical, of course, as no-one knows for sure one way or the other but it does sound very feasible from my experiences with other multiformat games on both systems.
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