It's been a long time coming but at last the stealthy CGI world of Solid Snake and chums will make it to the big screen! A film version was announced at the 25th anniversary event in Tokyo and Avi Arad has already signed up! It's actually going to happen! It's actually becoming a thing! How cool is that?! Let's put on our fanciest camouflage and celebrate!
Game after game, the Metal Gear Solid series delivered a truly intense experience for its players - none of those who played can forget the heart-stopping, pant-wetting sound effect that's triggered upon being discovered by the enemy. Intricate details made for a believable world you could spend hours exploring (in the second instalment you could watch ice melt, distract the enemy with dirty magazines, get bird shit on your face and listen in on an unfortunate chap struggling through a tremendous bout of diarrhea - seriously!), every choice and every action would have some sort of potentially deadly reaction. The plots were crammed full of mind-boggling twists and turns, and action sequences and epic soundtracks did the rest of the work. Whether or not you played to hunt down all the bad guys and shoot them dead, or to secretly sneak about with a cardboard box on your head, you'd be drawn in - in much the same way a darn good movie will grab you.
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| "I'll ask you one more time - where did you put my dirty magazine?" |
Half of the time, it has to be said, you were left starring at cut scenes for about half an hour at a time, which bordered on getting quite silly - but sod it! They were brilliantly cinematic so the intrusion was always easy to forgive. Basically, it was built for the big screen, so let's just hope the adaptation will stay true to the source material.
In the meantime, you can try your best to enjoy the trailer for a futuristic Devil May Cry game - oh, no, hang on! - it's a new Metal Gear game where Raiden's no longer a sexy bastard in a slim fitted rubber suit, no - instead he's a maniac, jumping about all over the place, waving his sword in the air, electrocuting everyone who took the piss out of him and his girly hair for being in Metal Gear Solid 2.
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