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

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

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

Also, Komjima.
Sentry's Avatar
Sentry at 06/15/2009 15:59
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
LsTr Of SmG at 06/15/2009 15:59
Ha, irony, I point out a spelling error and then make one myself! Failsauce.
BradleyTNO's Avatar
BradleyTNO at 06/15/2009 16:05
That would be cool, but four. Really?
I would keep it at two max.
link331's Avatar
link331 at 06/15/2009 16:08
@Chocobo Knight, Homestar Runner is for children. And I love it.

One of the bosses will be a mongoose.
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akumaserge at 06/15/2009 16:09
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
linuxguy at 06/15/2009 16:10
also I think the four big bosses thing is kojima not wanting to unveil all the characters just yet.
atastysammich's Avatar
atastysammich at 06/15/2009 16:11
Three buff allies with Snake masks? He did it himself to sneak around in that one place as Raikov.
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Scary Womanizing Pig Mask at 06/15/2009 16:12
@Sentry Yeah, but they didn't all look identical to him, and they weren't nearly old enough then to take part in Peacewalker
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Sentry at 06/15/2009 16:16
@ScaryWomanizingPigMask Maybe that's how they looked when they were fresh out of the oven?
Sentry's Avatar
Sentry at 06/15/2009 16:21
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
pedrovay2003 at 06/15/2009 16:28
@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.
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Two at 06/15/2009 16:33
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
Sentry at 06/15/2009 16:45
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.
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Black Nexus at 06/15/2009 16:48
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.
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CelicaCrazed at 06/15/2009 16:49
You know, I really feel left out having never played a Metal Gear game T_T
JynxShot's Avatar
JynxShot at 06/15/2009 16:50
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
Sentry at 06/15/2009 16:53
Come on, more hypotheses! As convoluted as possible!
SRCisFriday's Avatar
SRCisFriday at 06/15/2009 17:00
Thats an awsome Mecha
Holyetheline's Avatar
Holyetheline at 06/15/2009 17:22
That would probably be fun.
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MechaMonkey at 06/15/2009 17:44
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
Sentry at 06/15/2009 17:48
Mecha - Learn something about Snake, or learn something about ourselves?

.. and the Rough, Gruff, Sneak, and Perverted inside ALL of us.
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JLanphear at 06/15/2009 17:51
Four player co-op does seem pretty likely, and very possible. I think it's a sound theory, myself. . .
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Jawmuncher at 06/15/2009 18:18
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
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brainderailment at 06/15/2009 18:38
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.
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Palidi at 06/15/2009 22:11
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.
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BradleyTNO at 06/16/2009 18:48
Well i think that the clones have something to do with the story line and you probably just run into them every so often.
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Chibicon at 06/17/2009 08:37
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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