Hideo Kojima and his PHYSINT project made headlines earlier this year when both moved from PlayStation to Xbox, but it’s still years off from releasing.
Kojima’s team is currently working horror title OD: Knock, but PHYSINT is on deck as an action-espionage title starring Bill Skarsgård as the main protagonist, plus Charlee Fraser, Dong Lee, and Godzilla Minus Zero’s Minami Hamabe. All accounts say it may be a spiritual successor to Kojima’s Metal Gear franchise, and new information only solidifies that.
A special exhibit running for about a month in Tokyo to celebrate Kojima Productions’ 10th anniversary gave us a new look at concepts for PHYSINT, and yeah, welcome back, Metal Gear.
Along with an amazing sculpture of different appearances of Bill Skarsgård’s character, there are also two very distinct-looking mech designs, as shown in photos in the Twitter/X post above taken at the exhibit.
One looks like a Metal Gear, and there’s no other way to describe it: a bipedal tank with a sphere shape on one “arm” and what looks like a gun on the other. It looks like several other Metal Gear prototypes from MGS history, and something that easily could’ve appeared in the Konami franchise.
And then there’s the other one, which looks like a mech that comes equipped with three longer legs, akin to something like the alien ships seen in War of the Worlds with Tom Cruise. And at the bottom, a human man, showing the massive scale of the mech, towering well over the figure below it.
I’m all in, man. It just sucks that we’re so far off from seeing this title, but any sort of remnants of Metal Gear weirdness stuck in Kojima’s head with an actor like Skarsgård at the forefront? Sounds like gold to me, but we’re still several years from seeing it release, so hopefully OD can tide us over til then.
