Metal Gear Solid 4 intro video sneaks out
by Alexander Sliwinski 
{ May 13th 2008 at 11:30AM }
For those who have been paying attention to the media and still know next to nothing about what's going on in the MGS plotline (join the club), sit tight and wait until GameTrailers' excellent Metal Gear Retrospective starts making sense of it all. With any luck, MGS4 will come with an optional, "Previously on Metal Gear Solid" opening.
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KillerBee @ May 13th 2008 11:36AM
That was not good. What is with the writing? And the voice? Trying way too hard to be grizzled.
Did he mention control?
Go White Sox and Go other Team @ May 13th 2008 11:55AM
The second video on PS3fanboy is MUCHO better. Very much like a theatrical trailer.
ViagraFiend @ May 13th 2008 11:55AM
Have you people never played MGS?
Same voice actor as always. Same type over the top bullshit. Its the gameplay that makes MGS good, not the intro, the voice actor, or the crazy ass storyline.
Gameplay.
Trev @ May 13th 2008 12:17PM
I happen to like the voice and writing, but I also recognize that MGS doesn't take itself very seriously. This is a guy that kills nuclear tanks with a .45 and a pack of smokes, then thumbs his bandanna and says "infinite ammo".
You have to take it like Star Trek. They're going to bounce a tachyon b
Trev @ May 13th 2008 12:21PM
Damn. Do I ever fail at commenting today...
http://www.joystiq.com/2008/05/13/metal-gear-solid-4-intro-video-sneaks-up/1#c12107236
There's the rest.
jason @ May 13th 2008 12:27PM
I want this guys voice on my answering machine.
KillerBee @ May 13th 2008 12:38PM
I agree that the over-the-top cheese is a hallmark of the MGS series, but damn that was bad. Now, that "theatrical" trailer was fucking amazing. I am buying a PS3 for this game and that trailer really drove it home.
GenBanks @ May 13th 2008 1:17PM
lmao...
I not only want the same guy's voice, but I want him to say what he says in the video whenever someone calls me :D
Martez @ May 13th 2008 11:36AM
GAH! No! I need a "Joystiq -MGS4" rss feed.
*sits on hands*
eldee @ May 13th 2008 11:41AM
I take it war has changed?
Matt @ May 13th 2008 11:42AM
Where did you get that idea?
ComradeTrotskii @ May 13th 2008 12:00PM
MGS tells me that war has changed.
Fallout tells me that war, war never changes.
Now who the fuck am I supposed to believe?
embassy @ May 13th 2008 12:47PM
War, as i've been told, is also good for absolutely nothing. So i guess it doesn't matter?
GenBanks @ May 13th 2008 1:18PM
The video tells you that war has changed, but then you see that they're still driving 1950's trucks and wearing headscarves when the nano-bots should technically be able to protect them from sunburn.
ThornedVenom (Harley Quinn Defense Force) @ May 13th 2008 11:24PM
The only war that never changes is a fanboy war.
iFester @ May 13th 2008 11:46AM
My interest has changed. Now it's from zero to minus one.
Go White Sox and Go other Team @ May 13th 2008 11:50AM
Funny how you need to COMMENT on a game that you have negative interest in. Because of your airtight statement, I am no longer going to buy this game, in fact, I am going to bash my PS3 to the curb and run out and buy a 360 and a Wii.
Thanks for saving me from this horrible game. Now I can play real gems like Wii cheer for Wii.
iFester @ May 13th 2008 12:06PM
Sorry to burst your precious and sensitive bubble. I've been wanting to be interested in this game due to the hype and the fact I've never played a MGS game (unless you count the online beta which I didn't enjoy). I want to get into it, but the more I watch the more it's lost in translation for me. Enjoy your Wii, I lost interest in that soccer-mom over-hyped load of tripe too.
Noshino @ May 13th 2008 12:16PM
"My interest has changed. Now it's from zero to minus one."
wait, if you have zero interested, then there is no interest...and if there is no interest, then there can't be less interest....
"I've been wanting to be interested in this game due to the hype and the fact I've never played a MGS game (unless you count the online beta which I didn't enjoy). I want to get into it, but the more I watch the more it's lost in translation for me."
BUT THERE WAS NO INTEREST TO BEGIN WITH!!
...
....
......AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!
Go White Sox and Go other Team @ May 13th 2008 12:22PM
OK iFester,
Do not get discouraged by the B movie voiceovers. The MSG series has been top notch since the 1st 1 in 98. Just buy the game, you will not regret it. And if you don't like it, sell it on ebay.
TheHuntIsOn @ May 13th 2008 12:25PM
Same here. I gave up at "war". Gruff must be in fashion.
el serpiente @ May 13th 2008 3:20PM
No, Hunt, you gave up at "PS3".
Nmaster @ May 13th 2008 9:14PM
More accurately, given up at FOUR HUNDRED AND NINETY NINE US DOLLARS.
Also take not, war has changed.
Go White Sox and Go other Team @ May 13th 2008 11:47AM
this is GameVIDEOS, GameVIDEOS is part of 1up which is SEPARATE from GameTRAILERS.
Moffka @ May 13th 2008 12:25PM
Yes, but Gametrailers makes the retrospective...
Klepto @ May 13th 2008 11:48AM
Ugh, sounds so overblown. I wouldn't mind the anti-war theme, but not when it's crammed down my throat like I'm some sort of 2 dollar hooker on some of less savory websites around.
Plus, do those nanobots remove brains? I guess the soldiers of the future haven't figured out the concept of "cover"
xFenixKnightx @ May 13th 2008 11:47AM
Damn, that was MEH x 10
:(
Klepto @ May 13th 2008 11:50AM
I mean really, I wouldn't mind the anti-war/anti-conflict themes coming out of Japan if they were done well. But they seem to be so busy making a point that it makes all the characters seem retarded and ruins the story.
We aren't all goddamn retards, we can draw our own conclusions.
lexisfoot @ May 13th 2008 11:59AM
Snake is a terrorist fighting americans!?
embassy @ May 13th 2008 12:00PM
this seems like a good...47 mins too short to be an MGS intro.
GRANTED @ May 13th 2008 1:17PM
im guessing it's the post-prologue level 1 intro... or the pre-prologue pre-intro... probably that part that intro's the intro.
renegade @ May 13th 2008 12:01PM
oh, my, god! propaganda! I no like no more, and i like rest of us not retard.. this whole thing needs millions of omgds!!!!!
But anyways, looks fun, concept as well. Saying that it's done good or bad is off since you haven't played through the game and it's not out yet.
Booxatron @ May 13th 2008 6:00PM
"and i like rest of us not retard.."
Delicious.
Booxatron @ May 13th 2008 6:02PM
Hooray for not reading the rest of the comment before I tried to be a smartass.
I'm downvoting myself.
lee @ May 13th 2008 12:02PM
ok i was off topic buddy. thanks for deleting it.
but i dont see how much war has changed. machines are built by poeple, or liquid snake. so they have to be there some some sort of power control. true dosent explain much.
Iridium @ May 13th 2008 12:04PM
exactly what I was thinking, way too short to be the intro movie. Did somebody use one of the earlier vids and try to do thier best Snake impression. It sounded like someone recorded one saying of control and reused it over and over.
Instead of Snaaaaaaaaake it's now Contrrrrrooooooooooooool
FOXHOUND @ May 13th 2008 12:18PM
You know... with the time spent on these remixed trailers, you'd think they could've put the same effort toward a smoother sign-up process for MGObeta initially.
Or hey... here's an idea: a fawkin' DEMO. Eh? Eh?
Trev @ May 13th 2008 12:20PM
HA! found it. an accidental alt+space submits comments...
anyway. You have to take MGS like Star Trek. They're going to bounce a tachyon beam off the main deflector dish and they're going to be completely serious about it, no matter how ridiculous it is. Snake fights a crazy guy covered in bees? The game is going to be completely straight faced about it, but it isn't serious. The cheese is intentional. The voice and writing compliment that.
Ronald Pagan @ May 13th 2008 12:31PM
This game takes itself way too seriously.
Terrible, terrible writing and acting.
And people say that video game production values are on par with films. If this is the best of video game cinematics then Ed Wood is laughing.
Hyams @ May 13th 2008 12:42PM
If you think MGS games take themselves too seriously, clearly you have never played a MGS game...
Leobebes @ May 13th 2008 12:57PM
@Hyams
Now I am not supposed to take MGS seriously? Hyams you are actually one of the more rational Sony fans around here so I am not picking a bone with you, but now I am not supposed to take MGS storylines seriously when all I have been hearing from its fans that MGS is some kind of high art storytelling because I supposedly "don't understand" its bizarre intricacies?
Alex @ May 13th 2008 1:11PM
I agree. Yes, the visuals are good, but not groundbreaking. I myself have a 360, but am still hoping to play this sometime on a firend's PS3, but in an interview did Kojima say that this only just fitted onto 1 Blu-Rau disc? If so then the story must be longer than I thought.
Anyway, if these games have 'great storytelling', then Fahrenheit/Indigo Prophecy must have had a FANTASTIC story, which it did. Play it right now. You can get it off of XBL Original Xbox downloads section and on PS2.
A little off topic, but has anyone else realised that the voice of Colonel Campbell on MGS is the same voice for the Head of Police in Condemned 2?
GRANTED @ May 13th 2008 1:20PM
he's saying MGS characters often satirize themselves, likely a conscious decision the kojima because, let's face it, he's a weird guy.
na2ru1 @ May 13th 2008 2:39PM
@ALEX
Yes the voice of colonel is the same as the Condemed 2 person i noticed too.
el serpiente @ May 13th 2008 3:55PM
"How do I know this of Kojima. He stripped my friends' action figure company's license because they accidentally previewed of MSG Solid's Figures. Kojima was pissed, dude needs to get off his high horse." -Leobabies
dgtljunglist @ May 13th 2008 12:42PM
Some of the more awkward lines (overuse of the word control!) made more sense in earlier trailers when the Japanese voice actor was saying them, his phrasing was different. They should have rewritten the lines to be less awkward in English rather than just reading off the sub.
I still thought it was great though. Damn, I'm going to have to buy a PS3 just to play this?
potato @ May 13th 2008 2:30PM
Crappy voice acting, just trash. The script is silly, but it's just regular MGS fare, it's the voice acting that killed it.
Ugh.
el serpiente @ May 13th 2008 3:26PM
Isn't it the same guy that always does snake?
Griffin83 @ May 13th 2008 2:15PM
War ... war never changes
Maverick Saturn @ May 13th 2008 3:29PM
Love the writing for MGS, no matter what people say, when I write, its this sort of plot I look towards for ideas, it seems bizzare at periods, but there are moments in MGS that are epic.
I'd rather this anywho then all that macho man crap we seem to be forced to play these days, if not that, its something cutsie. My only issue with MGS is that the plot often takes over the game too often, making it linear and giving you less play time, more watch time.
However, I think MGS is the only game other then Bioshock that I can see translating well into a potential oscar winning movie.
Halo or Gears as movies is about as laughable as the sims movie, I can see more happening with a Gears movie then a Halo movie, I'm not going to pay to watch cutsie looking aliens attempt to take over Earth, only to be pwned by a man in the most powerful armour in the universe.
Funny, I'm suprised theres no books for MGS, theres so much plot, theres enough to make an entire series of books.
BTW, where is Eva? I want more Eva :(