PS3 owners will be sneaking their way through Metal Gear Solid 4 by March 2008 according to a Konami financial report.
The report names the highly-anticipated stealth-'em-up as one of its key product to be released before the end of the current fiscal year, which ends March 31 2008.
EB Games placed the release of MGS4 at March 1 2008 in an email update sent to eager fans. Could that be right on the money?
The report also reveals a record year for Konami with sales of $2.3 billion for the year ending March 31 2007, thanks mostly to Pro Evolution Soccer (or Winning Eleven in the East), which sold over a million units.
Still on the fence about whether or not I want MGS4. I loved the original MGS, as did everyone, but then MGS2 came along and it was probably the most boring piece of entertainment software ever conceived. Not counting RTS games of course.
Good enough fun while you were playing it, shooting cabbages and bottles... checking out raunchy locker decor and messing with Raven action figures. But faaarrr too many cutscenes which were faaarrr too long. Didn't help that I hated Raiden and didn't like the setting. Big Shell... Which strut? Another bridge? And what the hell was up with the ending?! Just so odd, and even then play was being disrupted by constant codec calls.
Beacause I was so disenfranchised with MGS2, I never bothered with 3... I'll have to see how things go, though I suspect MGS4 will end up being an essential title for anyone with a PS3.
then MGS2 came along and it was probably the most boring piece of entertainment software ever conceived.
I think if MGS2 had been the first game released, it wouldn't have done very well...but because it had the original game's story and characters behind it, it was ok. I agree that the cutscenes were too long and too many of them, but I still enjoyed it. But, as I said, if it had been the first MGS game I'd played, I probably would have got bored very quickly.
I still need to get MGS3. I was waiting for it to come out on the PC, like the first two, because while I DO own a PS2, I don't have a lot of room and have to keep getting it out and setting it up everytime I want to use it, which can get annoying.
If MGS4 looks awesome, then I'll just have to get MGS3 and play that first.
in some ways mgs3 is the best one. i actually played and clocked it repeatedly to get everything i could. mgs1 has a better story but the controls and action in 3 are a true evolution. i agree about mgs2 but to be fair the ship level is probably the best mgs level ever, it all started so promisingly and then...
if mgs2 put you off buying snake eater, then you are sorely missing out. mgs3 is almost the best of the series, imo. a little slow to start it may be, but it's absoultely brilliant. anyway, konami always take their time with metal gear, and it shows. this will be easily worth the wait!
Hmm... lots of glowing recommendation for MGS3. Maybe I should pick it up. Now's the perfect time in fact, what with the prospect of playing it through in 1080p and all.
I was afraid it would be more of the same of course, but now that I think about it... Big Shell vesus Jungle? Snake versus Raiden? Snake Eating versus "snake" eating? (Yes, a Raiden gay joke ) It probably couldn't get any more different.
mgs' only problem was that it suffered from devil may cry syndrome : 1st one-great(both versions although i prefer the 'cubes twin snakes),2nd one-swerve it,3rd one -return to form. i've got high hopes for mgs 4 and i hope it's (really) the last one and goes out with a hell of a bang.
in some ways mgs3 is the best one. i actually played and clocked it repeatedly to get everything i could. mgs1 has a better story but the controls and action in 3 are a true evolution. i agree about mgs2 but to be fair the ship level is probably the best mgs level ever, it all started so promisingly and then...
Im 100% with you on that, best story in 1, 2 lost the plot completely especially when at E3 they always showed the manhatten part, even the harrier battle was on the brooklyn bridge, which looked so much more impressive than the dull big shell or whatever the rig was.
3 was great and i urge anyone who liked the first one to play it, amazing gfx, great boss battles( the best of all the series ) and a decent enough story
As for 4, im sitting on the fence with this one, the more games are evolving and gfx, its far more fun to actually play cut scene type scenarios than action, looonnnggg cutscene...action. MGS 1 worked because o a great story, i enjoyed watching the non-convoluted stories in it, but if the story is lame it destroys the game
HI MGS2 was and still is a classic because of the first five minutes. Now it was good until the boss battle with psycho mantis, where you had to use the directional mic thing to try and hear what he was whispering to the guards. It started to turn sinister when you could actualy feel the camp gangly villain fingering through your own mind whispering profanities and asking for you to take your clothes off, and to compound it my grey PS1 controller vibrated wickedly off its canter next to me, landing on a full page image of Graham Norton in the mag on the floor, his liquid gaze was quite arresting. I've not played it since
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