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2Jun/10Off

Yet another zany commercial from those silly guys at Kojima Productions

Over the years, as part of the promotional process for their Metal Gear Solid (MGS) franchise, Kojima Productions has released some really odd, zany commercials promoting their games. The first of their zany commercials was released to promote the PS2 and X-Box title, Metal Gear Solid 2, which, although short, featured a middle-aged business man, in a senior position within his company, hiding in his office building from his subordinates using some Solid Snake-inspired means of keeping your presence hidden which includes hiding inside a cardboard box (and walking across a hallway) and hiding in a cabinet. It was a humourous take on some of the popular features of the Metal Gear Solid series and would be the first of many.

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19Apr/100

Metal Gear Solid: Peacewalker Uncut

It's weird how back in the days of the original Nintendo, and even to an extent today with the Nintendo Wii, censorship of Japanese-made games for a North American release occurred every so often. I recall that a few of the Final Fantasy games, for the Super Nintendo, had undergone minor in-game art alterations, such as covering up a scantily clad female monster. Even today there are some minor edits made, such as the change of wine to grape juice in the Ace Attorney series. It's unusual, however, when it's the other way around and Japan gets a major video game title, created by one of its developers, censored. In this case, it's the upcoming Metal Gear Solid game, Peacewalker, that is seeing some light censorship in the form of the removal of a scene that would increase the rating in Japan had it remained in the game.

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3Apr/100

Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker: Old School Gameplay

So I recently came across the latest, and last to focus on gameplay, trailer for the upcoming PSP Metal Gear Solid game and I came away quite impressed. In this 9-minute video clip, from Kojima Productions, we get to see that the game mechanics don't stray far from the mechanics we have come to enjoy in the previous console-based Metal Gear Solid games.

In the last third of the video we get to hear an extended version of the theme song, Heaven's Divide. This song, which gives off a sort of James Bond sort of feeling to it, was first premiered in the Tokyo Game Show trailer from last year which introduced us to the cast of characters in the game. In the Tokyo Game Show trailer we only heard over a minute of the song, but in this latest trailer we get to hear more of it. I can't wait to hear what the full version is like when it is it comes out April 7th.

Credit/Sources: Kojima Productions (日本語), AndriaSang - Gaming News from Japan, Konami Videos (on Youtube)

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24Feb/100

Metal Gear Solid 5: Peace Walker

I just came across a news post over on Kotaku regarding some development news regarding Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker. A Konami spokesperson, Jiro Oishi, during an interview on the Kojima Productions Blog mentioned that during the initial development process that the upcoming PSP Metal Gear Solid game was originally entitled Metal Gear Solid 5: Peace Walker.