Hideo Kojima is intent on Wesleying Raiden as much as possible, and it appears that Metal Gear Solid RISING may see him succeed. The game looks to be incredibly badass, and Konami is excited enough about it that there may be an entirely new franchise bearing the RISING name.
"MGS Rising is not a side story. We're aiming for two Metal Gear Solids, making a series out of another standard," explains producer Shigenobu Matsuyama.
RISING is going to tell us what happened to Raiden between Metal Gear Solid 2 and Metal Gear Solid 4. It's all about Raiden because the team had imagined a game where you could "cut anything" and the character was already known for wielding a katana. Either way, the thing looks boss and I want it.
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11:20 AM on 06.28.2010 | 
Although. The time slowdown we have seen could be linked to hours of future fun, dissecting humans in elaborate ways.
I think I'll be buying for that mechanic alone no matter what reviews tell me.
Here's to hoping there's a really fat enemy in the game .
The best games of the bunch were Metal Gear Solid and Snake Eater, in my opinion. You may want to try one of those. I'd suggest the first.
I agree with HEL105; MGS1 and MGS3 are definitely the best of the series. (I'd give 3 a slight edge.)
I mean if you open the door to badass cyborg ninja characters i wouldnt mind that.
MGS was good for it's time, but it's aged horribly, at least to me.
On a technical level, it's impressive, but I don't see how it improves on the genre. Not to mention I'm not looking forward to another overly-convoluted mess of a plot. Just give me a remake of Metal Gear (before it was "Solid") already...
Can we just let the people making the games decide what these games are?
Last year I bought a PSP. I tried Portable Ops and the control scheme made me furious. I tried to grab a guy and he heard me. Maybe Big Boss tickled him. What I really wanted to do was to break his neck and NOT use the f**** gun. I ended using the gun and turned off the PSP.
Even though it doesn't look like your typical Metal Gear game, it's nice they are going further into the story of Raiden (even though I'm not a huge fan of Raiden, Son's of Liberty was my least favorite Metal Gear game).
It's also awesome that 360 only user's will finally get a Metal Gear for this gen. They can finally have fun with what PS3 owner's have had for a few years now.
Sounds to me like you should be picking up Metal Gear Solid off the PlayStation Network. It's not only mine but most peoples favourites.
For most fans of the series MGS4 is considered good because it tries to tie up story elements from the previous games in the series and while the game is impressive on it's own, for someone who'd never played the others it'd be literally like watching Just "Return Of The Jedi" by itself without the gaps filled in.
It relies heavily on the fact that you're actually a fan of the series for you to actually get it in any facet.
I still laugh when people say they cried during MGS4, or MGS4 is somehow a pinnacle of fantastic storytelling. It was utter shit.
Not to be a snob. But the 'Solid' in Metal Gear Solid does not refer to Solid Snake. It is a reference to the series going into 3D environments. The old Metal Gear games were, of course, 2D and thus the 'Solid' added onto the title for the PS1 and later games.
Since Rising is still very much a 3D environment the use of 'Solid' is still appropriate. Granted, Rising should be the new addition and become its own series to learn about Raiden. It doesn't seem right to make a MGS5 after wrapping everything up with MGS4.
Also, really? A game publisher is going to whore out a property? How surprising! Actually, this probably explains why not Kojima introduced it at E3: so the fanboys can say, "Well, whatsisname is working on Metal Gear Rising 2: Mostly Erect and he introduced the first one at E3!"
Snake's Revenge for the NES was unofficial, it was made by Ultra games.
Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake for the MSX2 was made by Kojima and Konami.
Maybe I just misread what you typed? lol
I completely agree with schmix -- This game needs Move support. If they're putting Kinect support in there (wtf?), then it would do AWESOME with the Move remote.
How could they ruin a series with a story as outlandish and ridiculous as MGS? I think they'd have a hard time coming up with something so crazy that it was actually too much, even for the MGS universe.
But yeah, as much as Solid means "3D", it's better to be replaced by a number or a new word because I don't want it's naming to be as comparable as Final Fantasy's.
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