MGS4 screens show new terrain, hint at flashbacks

by Majed Athab { May 16th 2008 at 3:30PM }

The Metal Gear Solid 4 hype machine seems to have kicked into full gear these past couple of days. MGS4 news has seemingly plastered our blogging wall daily with flash games, peripherals, and more gameplay news. This time, we're continuing the coverage with these new screenshots that look distinctly different from what we've seen before.

Most of the previous MGS4 screenshots depict the center of wasted Middle Eastern city. These new screens, however, show a bit of grassland and rocky terrain as well as some indoor shots, too. There's even a shot of Snake controlling Mk. II with a DualShock 3. The picture above suggests you'll be tracking down your stats such as Headshots and CQC take downs. Most interesting is the "flashbacks viewed" stat. Does this mean there will be several playable flashbacks to previous MGS games ... like this one of Shadow Moses?

Tags: kojima-productions, kojimaproductions, konami, metal-gear-solid-4, metalgearsolid4, mgs4

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

djRidz @ May 16th 2008 3:49PM

anybody notice the snake shaped mountain? that freaked me out...

Daniel @ May 16th 2008 3:52PM

Awesome, but why would Snake infiltrate Tony Montana's Mansion?

John Benoit @ May 16th 2008 3:53PM

Allow me to predict that this Metal Gear will surpass even MGS2 in deceptive advertising... We have at least three more environments we have seen almost none of, including what looks to be Shadow Moses (from MGS1), South America,and Eastern Europe. I can't wait!

Puntachu @ May 16th 2008 3:57PM

Not sure where I read it exactly (I'm sure we've all done our reading on this game by now), but kojima mentioned this in his playthrough of the first chapter of the game. Somewhere in a conversation, mention is made of metal gear, and the screen flickers a bit. Kojima pointed out that there are many times like this where if you press a button, you can trigger the flashback to see the event mentioned. Could be pretty nice, being able to choose whether or not to watch the lengthy flashbacks.