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Clones for Co-op? Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker teases photo

The thing about the Metal Gear games is that you really have no idea what's going on until you're actually playing the game. And even then it's still a bit difficult to understand. Sorry, Kojima. We still love you.

We haven't fully explored the whole four character thing for the upcoming PSP game Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker yet. What was the deal with the four Snakes? Is that four Big Bosses? Clones?

The slightly different clothing we saw in trailers and screens could just be Kojima telling us that there's slightly different clothing. But I'd like to think of this as a clear indicator of four-player cooperative play. If it was four-player, how would it work?

And what kind of game is this? I loved the Portable Ops and the Acid! games, but the screenshots we've seen seem to point to something different. Full on portable MGS action? Yes, please! Kojima calls Peace Walker a "true sequel of the Metal Gear franchise," but what the hell is that supposed to mean.

We were looking forward to the release of some new screenshots or details to tell us more, but the newest batch that hit today tell us nothing other than there might be big boss battles. Are we to guess at huge co-op boss battles? Are you done teasing us, Kojima?

Give us your best guess in the comments below.


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Chocobo Knight's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/15/2009 15:48
Chocobo Knight
Cheerleader! So and So! What's Her Face! The Ugly One!
linuxguy's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/15/2009 15:56
linuxguy
am I the only one who's wanting this one more than rising?
LsTr Of SmG's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/15/2009 15:58
LsTr Of SmG
'Komjima'?

Sorry, couldn't resist. And no, luniux guy, you aren't I too am looking forward to this far more.
pedrovay2003's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/15/2009 15:59
pedrovay2003
@linuxguy

No, I'm in the same boat as you.

Also, Komjima.
Sentry's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/15/2009 15:59
Sentry
I'm not that familiar with the chronology of the MGS series these day, but it occurs to me that there was Big Boss and AT LEAST three clones, yes? (i.e. Solid, Liquid, Solidus)
LsTr Of SmG's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/15/2009 15:59
LsTr Of SmG
Ha, irony, I point out a spelling error and then make one myself! Failsauce.
BradleyTNO's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/15/2009 16:05
BradleyTNO
That would be cool, but four. Really?
I would keep it at two max.
link331's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/15/2009 16:08
link331
@Chocobo Knight, Homestar Runner is for children. And I love it.

One of the bosses will be a mongoose.
akumaserge's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/15/2009 16:09
akumaserge
Well, it def won't be anything with time travel and if someone brings that up again... I shall point them to rumors that were popping up when MGS3 was being developed. I say if anything, I think the different Snake's in the pic is 4 people playing on their psp's over ad hoc. Different snake = different player.
linuxguy's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/15/2009 16:10
linuxguy
also I think the four big bosses thing is kojima not wanting to unveil all the characters just yet.
atastysammich's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/15/2009 16:11
atastysammich
Three buff allies with Snake masks? He did it himself to sneak around in that one place as Raikov.
Scary Womanizing Pig Mask's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/15/2009 16:12
Scary Womanizing Pig Mask
@Sentry Yeah, but they didn't all look identical to him, and they weren't nearly old enough then to take part in Peacewalker
Sentry's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/15/2009 16:16
Sentry
@ScaryWomanizingPigMask Maybe that's how they looked when they were fresh out of the oven?
Sentry's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/15/2009 16:21
Sentry
Like, those gentlemen you see pictured above, they're roughly two weeks old. Came out of the mold complete with facial hair, cigarettes, and bandana.
pedrovay2003's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/15/2009 16:28
pedrovay2003
@Sentry

Well, the thing is that Big Boss hated the idea that he was cloned, so I seriously doubt he'd work with his own clones.
Two's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/15/2009 16:33
Two
They aren't clones.


All of the clones got their eye fucked up, the same eye no less? A clone wouldn't carry ones physical abnormalities if they made after birth, see: Solid, Liquid, Solidus.
Sentry's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/15/2009 16:45
Sentry
You people are, seriously, no fun at all. Besides, the answers are obvious:

Pedrovay - Big Boss is motivated by his personal ideologies, and wouldn't turn down assistance from clones simply 'cause he was pissed at the folks what made 'em. Put another way, somebody offers him a gun and a capable hand to wield it, he's gonna' accept. 'Cause he's a f***in' man.

Two - I find your name appropriate to my response. You see, there are a pair of solutions. If you can accept clones somehow being fully-matured (as though from the head of Zeus), then you can accept that they come equipped with abnormalities (and the aforementioned smokes and bandanna). Why? Because of SCIENCE, that's why. Or you could just chalk it up to somebody in the lab being hardcore enough to stab 'em in the eye himself, just out of homage to Big Boss, or perhaps even in some psychological imprinting grand design intended to recreate, as best as possible, Big Boss' experiences.
Black Nexus's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/15/2009 16:48
Black Nexus
Nice to see komjima isn't easing up on the weird.

I like my weird with a side a clones, some nuclear death tank, and a nice tall glass of WTF.
CelicaCrazed's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/15/2009 16:49
CelicaCrazed
You know, I really feel left out having never played a Metal Gear game T_T
JynxShot's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/15/2009 16:50
JynxShot
I just want to know how the game controls. If I have to wrestle with no second analog stick again, fuck it.
Sentry's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/15/2009 16:53
Sentry
Come on, more hypotheses! As convoluted as possible!
SRCisFriday's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/15/2009 17:00
SRCisFriday
Thats an awsome Mecha
Holyetheline's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/15/2009 17:22
Holyetheline
That would probably be fun.
MechaMonkey's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/15/2009 17:44
MechaMonkey
Clearly, Dr. Gizmo used his Personality Ray to split Solid Snake into four different bodies, each one representing one of his major personality traits. There's Rough, Gruff, Sneaky, and Perverted. And they have to find the magic crystal to reunite themselves into one body, and learn to work together along the way. In the end, Snake learns a little something about himself, and maybe, just maybe... we do too.
Sentry's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/15/2009 17:48
Sentry
Mecha - Learn something about Snake, or learn something about ourselves?

.. and the Rough, Gruff, Sneak, and Perverted inside ALL of us.
JLanphear's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/15/2009 17:51
JLanphear
Four player co-op does seem pretty likely, and very possible. I think it's a sound theory, myself. . .
Jawmuncher's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/15/2009 18:18
Jawmuncher
What I read on the forums which sounds like a better idea is

(Unsure if someone said it all ready)

That the 3 others aren't clones but rather soldiers who disguuised themselves as big boss
brainderailment's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/15/2009 18:38
brainderailment
Seems to me that they are doing what Portable Ops did with the character swapping during the level. Maybe they'll simplify it by limiting you to 4 snakes. For example, one medic, one heavy weaponry, etc...

No matter how they do it though, I'm going to play it.
Palidi's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/15/2009 22:11
Palidi
Wait, wait, isn't this a two week old discussion?

Anyhow, I think it's a first attempt at "cloning" Big Boss by splicing Big Boss's DNA into top notch soldiers in order to give them Big Boss like abilities. The three "clones" die by the end of the game because they just aren't Big Boss.

Also, looks like it's what the original Portable Ops footage was suppose to be where all your team members move and interact about the field in real time. Maybe this one will have some real-time strategy elements to it for commanding the other three in single-player, but in multiplayer co-op all of them are controlled by a player. Could be real awesome if I am correct.
BradleyTNO's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/16/2009 18:48
BradleyTNO
Well i think that the clones have something to do with the story line and you probably just run into them every so often.
Chibicon's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/17/2009 08:37
Chibicon
I'm all up for cooperative gameplay... probably is that what the K-man is up to for Peace Walker...

Buuuuuuuut, the idea of having 3 other clones of BB as part of the canon storyline it's just too confusing or convuluted for my taste. In fact, I do think it has to do a little bit with time travel or maybe a rift in the space-time line. Has anyone noticed in the trailer that the unknown soldiers that are passing through a wall, next to the tank, look a little bit like the PMC's from MGS4? That kind of military suit is way too advanced for the time period this game is suppossed to take place (1970's)

Then again, Kojima is known for screwing up with our brains prior to launch a new MGS title. He did it with MGS2, so he will do it again for Peace Walker.
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