Boss characters invade new Metal Gear Solid 4 trailer
by Andrew Yoon 
{ Aug 23rd 2007 at 11:20AM }
Wait ... haven't we seen this trailer before? Yes, the opening moments of this Leipzig-edition Metal Gear Solid 4 trailer starts exactly the same as the previous trailer. But just wait. Your patience will be rewarded ... with bosses. Giant metallic tentacled beasts roar as they take down opposing forces with ease. What's that chill we feel? Could it be fear ... or uncontrollable excitement?
Watch the trailer after the cut.
NEW VIDEO!!!
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Tim Parsons @ Aug 23rd 2007 11:41AM
wow this game is looking better and better all the time,.
I've never played a Mtal Gear game b4 but i might have to change that when this game comes up
Justin @ Aug 23rd 2007 11:47AM
if you've really never played any...you should play them all in order. most likely...you'll be super-lost when it comes to MGS4's storyline.
Farmz @ Aug 23rd 2007 12:02PM
@justin
You aren't kidding.
Tim Parsons @ Aug 23rd 2007 12:11PM
LOL yeha maybe,. I probabl;y won't play it at all though as awesome as it looks i suck at those types of games, I'm an RPGer
doug @ Aug 23rd 2007 12:14PM
this is the game id kill for if i could have it right now, but ill wait as long as kojima thinks itll take to make it perfect
Justin @ Aug 23rd 2007 12:57PM
same here @ doug.
i may not be the BIGGEST fan....
but i got my collection!!!
i need mgs4
http://s12.photobucket.com/albums/a235/j_blaza_2005/?action=view¤t=DSC00060.jpg
Justin @ Aug 23rd 2007 1:00PM
okay...who the HELL is talking in that first video?
Darkdrium777 @ Aug 23rd 2007 1:35PM
I think its Kojima San. Now you know why there is always someone that speaks for him in english. :)
Popfrogs @ Aug 23rd 2007 2:43PM
#4: The previous games in the series have been more about hiding and picking your fights than straight up massacre like every other FPS. Find MGS2 cheap somewhere, fire it up and see what you think. MGS3...maybe you can skip it, it's a real pain in the neck for the first 30 minutes or more and the storyline is a history lesson (it's like 30 years before the other MGS games).
Trust me, when it comes to storyline, action, adventure, sneaking, a little puzzle solving...MGS takes the prize. These are some of the best games ever made. I don't say that lightly.
Popfrogs @ Aug 23rd 2007 2:46PM
Just wanted to add a LOL for the first video..if that's Kojima-san, he sounds alot like Yoda.
John @ Aug 23rd 2007 10:10PM
Kojima-san IS f*ckin Yoda!!!!1111shift!FTW@l0l
John @ Aug 23rd 2007 10:13PM
Wow.
NOW I am HYPED.
Watching that first bit, where we can hear him talking? Awesome. We get to hear an artist talking about the implementation of his creation. And he has taken a classic push/pull (pulk/pull revolving doors), timeless concept and brought it full now-generation, a classic element, dispensed through a new mythos, so that now-generation people can explore classical elements in a way that is stimulating, intrigueing, fun, I could go on.
A smart teacher or parent would have a student write a paper about these elements. Think of how mobilizing, how motivating this would be. Like Shakespeare in our time (perhaps I had one too many beers?).
If you exalt a woman, you're going against the status quo. Exalting men is easy, that's what GOW (and GOW) does, it's what our military-corporatocracy does.
Now we are seeing a bit of anthropology here ('bit' being sarcastic).
Maxim does not exalt women (and I say exalt because we are already exalting men-- exaltation has it's drawbacks, but this is one way to meet male exaltation with female, creating a balance), it objectifies them.
As do the commercials, the billboards, the magazines, my eyeballs...
So:
How do women come back?
In this next-gen example (and I'm keeping it there, because think about it-- what is SIMs but a woman's game? So women have already finally begun to make their own franchises in a male-dominated industry), women are entering this realm in war-time, male-dominated scenarios.
First, we have Heavenly Sword.
Now, Gears could never have been made with women leads, that would be like making a Hollywood chase scene with a Prius and a freakin Honda Insight (actually, that sounds SUPER cool!)-- the storyline prevents it, most women don't act like that (do most men?)
So Heavenly Sword has all this emotional docudrama type stuff, which I love.
Notice that the game will be almost totally reviewed by males.
And they will not give it more than a 8.9, if that.
They're not buying into the background.
But Kojima of course knocks it up, a notch.
He says (truthfully) that women are casualties of war not to be discounted.
In his script, they transform into beautiful/monstrous machines (what monstrous machine isn't also beautiful-- cha ching! Zen point!), and they are 'grotesque' and they are enraged, but they are also still beautiful yet now they are a threat.
So, as he finishes, that last line, he's got me, hook, 'line', and sinker. I'm a fish in a pond. I always rent games, but I will buy this game.
Respect.
The layers of all this go so deep, but since I'm not writing an anthropology paper for a grade or a career, I'm going to stop right here.
p.s. I LOVE the way he talks. Don't change a thing, 'San!
plyx @ Aug 24th 2007 12:32AM
Damn, John, you're all over the gigantic posts! You do (even though you're drunk) make some decent points here and there and, even though the only reason I can make sense of them is because I am also tipsy, the fact is women do deserve a lot more respect than they normally get. No matter what the medium is.
Jay @ Aug 24th 2007 12:41AM
no disrispect cuz i got em all mgs games but im disapointed. i expected a little more realism. not any more crazy villains that run on water and are psychic and the like... kojima u disapointed me. i expected true realism and bosses shoud be more human like... even tho im no splinter cell fan and i never would even tho i played all its games i think this is where they rock. i mean no psychic, vampire soldiers and the like. kojima wassup with that nonscence man? i mean reality is boring true, but you can make it interesting at least without going too far...
thefeen @ Aug 24th 2007 3:52AM
Notice how the femme fatales are a bird, octopus, wolf, and insect?
Sound fmailar, mgs fans?