Fan-made animated short pays tribute to MGS

by Majed Athab { Jul 7th 2008 at 3:30PM }

This fan made animated short was created by a group of creative and really bored minds called the Duo Group. Titled Metal Gear Solid: Cold Blooded, we're taken through quite an impressively produced piece that pays tribute to the Metal Gear Solid series -- specifically the era of games in which you play as Big Boss. We liked it very much and thought all of you would like to watch it as well. Enjoy.

[Thanks Graham!]

Tags: metal-gear-solid, metal-gear-solid-4, mgs, mgs4

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Morgan @ Jul 7th 2008 3:44PM

This is brilliantly animated and produced with the nice twist at the end. Excellent.

- Whats with them "throwing everything they've got" and it being 6 guys out side the cabin.

Still very good.

Brute @ Jul 7th 2008 3:45PM

Pretty good, I liked the ending.

theblackandwhiteknight @ Jul 7th 2008 3:48PM

Well that really payed tribute to just about nothing. More of using Metal Gear as a skin for bad storytelling.

Polkster @ Jul 7th 2008 3:50PM

I thought it was lame.

ryan @ Jul 7th 2008 6:44PM

i kinda did too. the art work was pretty mediocre and the animation wasn't evenly paced and really needed to pick up speed in certain places.

that zoom out (truck out) at the end is a big No-NO after trucking in that long, it totally disorients the viewer and is unneeded.

the helicopters were ok. overall not bad, but not really impressive. the plot and twist have been done before, it didn't feel very Metal Gear to me like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1uYTp0--zE

Double @ Jul 8th 2008 12:59AM

I agree. The only thing that was metal gear about it was the theme.

Cory @ Jul 7th 2008 3:52PM

This animated short was very well done!
I really enjoyed watching it.
Very nice! (Borat voice)

stacy daniels @ Jul 7th 2008 4:03PM

very nicely put together!!!
clap!! clap!!

themissing @ Jul 7th 2008 4:27PM

i love when people bash things that they, in a million years, couldn't make.

Flame Mammoth @ Jul 7th 2008 5:32PM

Why is that even a relevant argument? You don't know who you are talking to in the first place; that coupled with the fact that half of the reason this movie is getting any praise is it being loosely based on the Metal Gear universal (and I use 'loosely' to it's fullest extent).

tl;dr version: rethink it.

themissing @ Jul 7th 2008 8:03PM

you certainly do flame, don't you lol. i know who i'm talking to. a guy who spends his days putting down things because he has nothing better to do. regardless of what you consider loosely related to MGS, someone spent time to work on this and share it with people but because you're so awesome, you have to put it down. now go ahead and reply and tell me how your a designer or an animator or a game tester or whatever. flame on, flaming mammoth lol.

Flame Mammoth @ Jul 8th 2008 10:18AM

No no I'm not going to lie here, I'm just simply not going to be afraid to criticize something just because I don't have the practice in video creation, animation or editing to make a mediocre short like this. No, I am going to criticize this short pile of plagiarism for stealing the plot from MI2 and throwing a Metal Gear skin on a video with bad animation in comparison to other videos with much more compelling (not to mention original) storytelling.

So "themissing," it seems you're living up to your call-name by leaving logic out of the equation. But fine, have fun in your world of defending everything just because you feel everyone is too ignorant to criticize something that you, in turn, most likely also know nothing about.

Cheers champ.