Metal Gear 4 trailer real-time

By Tom Bramwell Published 9 September, 2005

The one that'll be at TGS, that is.

The Metal Gear Solid 4 trailer on display at the Tokyo Game Show next week will be running on actual PlayStation 3 hardware, according to Kojima Productions, the Konami subsidiary set-up to handle Metal Gear and Hideo Kojima's other works.

That's actual PS3-generated content, apparently, and not just footage rendered to a certain target specification - which ties in with what Kojima was saying recently about showing "something from PS3" at the event. We do love those thoroughly ambiguous interview answers.

Speaking of which, he had also said to expect something that wasn't just a high-resolution version of what we had previously, but something "a little more natural and with a natural flow when creating a world". Expect codec conversations about herbal remedies and the beauty and variety of orchids, then.

Er, whatever we do get, we'll be telling you about it in about a week's time, as we join the masses clapping eyes on Konami's special stage event called "Metal Gear Saga ~ Metal Gear Show in TGS 2005", which - rather like the Konami trailers we see at E3 - is set to run several times a day, and will also give us a chance to see how Metal Gear Acid 2 (PSP) and Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence (PS2) are shaping up.

Metal Gear Solid 4, in case you've been caught out, returns to the post-MGS2 timeline, with Solid Snake the main character, and will be released on PlayStation 3 exclusively (at least for now) with creator Hideo Kojima producing and directing. He wasn't going to, originally, but had a change of heart - and as such will be sharing directorial duties with Shuyo Murata, while Yoji Shinkawa returns as character designer.

More on MGS4 when we've snuck a peek.

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Comments (35) Latest comment 7 years ago

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  • #1 7 years ago

    I'd better get along and play Snake eater then...

  • Blerk #2 7 years ago

    running on actual PlayStation 3 hardware

    Well... current PS3 dev-kit hardware, anyway. :-)

    /nitpicks

  • cubbymoore #3 7 years ago

    SNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE!

    Well at last we'll see what the graphics really look like. Now where's the fanboys?

  • KingOfSpain #4 7 years ago

    Should have said archecture instead maybe. Suppose that does class as PS3 Hardware.

  • KingOfSpain #5 7 years ago

    *Raises hand at fanboy claim*

  • Blerk #6 7 years ago

    Wonder how much PS3 stuff we'll see at the show, actually? It'd be nice to see something 'real' running. And some 360 stuff too.

    /crosses fingers

  • Aretak #7 7 years ago

    I wonder if this will be as impressive as the MGS2 footage was back in the day...

  • Talha #8 7 years ago

    This is the first truly exciting news to have come in weeks. I think Mr Kojima will come up with spectacular, exciting stuff no matter what the platform, although I don't quite get the whole 'natural' thing.

  • drumbaby #9 7 years ago

    Only £29.99 in Argos :)

  • davyuk #10 7 years ago

    TGS > E3

  • Furbs #11 7 years ago

    Looking at new release section in Game > ECTS

  • afray #12 7 years ago

    KingOfSpain -- the real King just valiantly got the boys over 375. Aus 14/0 in reply.

  • tonynibbles #13 7 years ago

    I cant wait!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    SNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE!

    OMG this is awesomer. I love MGS and I just cant wait to see what Kojima can do on PS3.

    This should be absolutely amazing looking. Hopefully it'll piss all over those sodding Killzone 'screens' and we can gander at some real PS3 in-game quality thats not those brilliant ducks.

  • Diabeu #14 7 years ago

    2 hours of gameplay, 10 hours of codec shit

  • Hunam85 #15 7 years ago

    I remember when i first saw the MGS2 trailer before the ps2 was released, i hope to be in the same type of awe as that again

  • Navi #16 7 years ago

    I liked the codec stuff, most (not all, I admit) was well written and it added to the whole thing.

    Very much looking forward to this, especially after seeing the first MGS4 trailer.

  • tonynibbles #17 7 years ago

    I remember when i first saw the MGS2 trailer before the ps2 was released, i hope to be in the same type of awe as that again

    I remember getting the MGS2 demo with ZOE over a year before it came out.

    That was a bonus, as ZOE rocked and the demo kept me going for that year.

  • TS2610 #18 7 years ago

    I'm thinking about a measured and carefully considered response to this news.

    OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG

  • TS2610 #19 7 years ago

    And for misinformed twats that say "OMG 213 hours of CODEC!! LOL!", go and play MGS3. You're on the codec for about half an hour in the whole game.

  • myiagros #20 7 years ago

    MGS rules!
    the first one was the most groundbreaking, but Snake Eater was probably the best game (had some great new ideas).

    can't wait to see MGS4 (are we all agreed we are expecting an urban environment?)

  • tiddles #21 7 years ago

    those Metal Gear Acid 2 screenshots... looks like they took the ACIEEEEEEEED!!! theme a little bit too seriously...

  • tonynibbles #22 7 years ago

    And with Subsistence having online play - I think the chances of MGS4 shipping with online mode as standard are fairly high.

    Jungle maps from #3! Yay!
    Urban Maps from #4! Yay!
    Erm, ships and warehouses from #2! Yay!
    Killing friends online in MGS4! YAY! (AND YES PLEASE!)

  • spidermanalf #23 7 years ago

    Couldn't get in to MGS3, just did not float my boat. But loved MGS2.

  • ProfessorChaos #24 7 years ago

    Hideo Kojima has fused panto with superb graphics and an unnatural longing for Kurt Russel (again). Thank God for Ghost Recon games.

  • Dizzy #25 7 years ago

    >And for misinformed twats that say "OMG 213 hours of CODEC!! LOL!", go and play MGS3. You're on the codec for about half an hour in the whole game.

    Ok.. maybe he should have said. 2 hour of codec and 10 hours of shit gaming.

  • Yossarian #26 7 years ago

    pretty curious about this after the Killzone fiasco

  • kgthatsme #27 7 years ago

    "Couldn't get in to MGS3, just did not float my boat. But loved MGS2."

    Me neither, I enjoyed MGS2 more, I found the jungle setting unsuitable for the camera view- I couldnt see far enough ahead.
    Edited by kgthatsme at 09/09/05 @ 16:09

  • cubbymoore #28 7 years ago

    And for misinformed twats that say "OMG 213 hours of CODEC!! LOL!", go and play MGS3. You're on the codec for about half an hour in the whole game.

    Now I love MGS 3, but that's just a lie. There's half an hour of codec in the first half hour...

  • captain-future #29 7 years ago

    davyuk: TGS > E3

    result: false.

  • admir #30 7 years ago

    MGS games Rock

  • Kengro #31 7 years ago

    The camera angle on mgs 3 easy convinced me to go to splinter cell, i don't think i'll be looking back much

  • Hunam85 #32 7 years ago

    well substience apprently tries out some new idea's with the camera, even though i loved 3, the camera can be an utter pain in the jungle

  • captain-future #33 7 years ago

    I didn't have a problem with the camera in MGS3, but I'm excited to hear that they'll include a new camera in MGS3S and tons of extras I hope...

  • OnlyMe #34 7 years ago

    I will probably buy Subsistance just to try out the new camera. Appearently it's supposed to be somewhat similar to what Splinter Cell has. Also, one of the other main reasons I want Subsistance is the two games original Metal Gear titles that comes with it, hopefully not as unlockables. I'm interested to play through those to get the full story of what happened before the first Metal Gear Solid on Playstation.

  • Sabre #35 7 years ago

    I'll probably get Subsistence but I hope this time they don't release it at full RRP like MGS 2 Substance.. I waited till I could find that for £20 before I got it.