MGS animated short is 'Cold Blooded'

by Randy Nelson { Jul 8th 2008 at 1:00AM }

Fans are already filling our need for more Metal Gear post-MGS4. Created by The Duo Group, "Cold Blooded" is an animated short in the vein of the Kojima Productions' Metal Gear Solid: Digital Graphic Novel, with an almost story-board-like look and an intriguing twist for such a short ... short.

Now that we've watched it, we're more eager than ever to hear anything new on the Digital Graphic Novel treatment of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty that was announced last year. The last we'd heard, the comic book adaptation is being slightly tweaked in order to better jive with the plot-bombs dropped in MGS4, in which case we're willing to wait a little longer.

Tags: animation, metal-gear, metal-gear-solid-digital-graphic-novel, the-duo-group

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

twism @ Jul 8th 2008 1:11AM

I like it.

Frostfell @ Jul 8th 2008 1:16AM

Wow that was unexpectedly awesome. I want more!

Frojo @ Jul 8th 2008 1:27AM

That is the highest quality fan-made video i've ever seen.

Very well done.

pacokorn77 @ Jul 8th 2008 1:52AM

Without the music at the end, I wouldn't have gotten chills up my spine.

ill trooper @ Jul 8th 2008 2:13AM

Well done. Clever plot, excellent audio, good art - despite joining the ranks of The Quick, the Layered, and the Correctable - that is, looking like a big Wacom tablet sketch in Painter. GTA4 art was the same way.

There's not much to the story other than 'Big Boss is Awesome!', which is TOTALLY FINE with me, but I'm just sayin', don't think too hard about what you see, because there's some holes. But yeah, I'm all for web-based animated mini adventures.

JMD @ Jul 8th 2008 2:25AM

Awesome video, thanks for the heads-up on it!

SimbaDogg @ Jul 8th 2008 4:43AM

am i seriously the first person to make any mention of rick james?

phobic99 @ Jul 8th 2008 5:48AM

Haha... nope.

ParadeRainer @ Jul 8th 2008 4:52AM

Um... it's a twist lifted directly from the horrific MI:2 movie, and since everyone hated that one, not exactly sure why people are praising this one. Heh, games as art.

Looks worse than a South Park episode. Lacking the humor though.

jyrki @ Jul 8th 2008 5:53AM

As illtrooper mentioned, the plot has some holes. Like the glaring one about Boss's motivations. Why did he have to infiltrate that snowclad base if he knew it was an ambush? Also I don't see Snake sending out someone else to be killed in his place. He's a hero with a sense of honor and a gullible fool.

I liked the style of the short, though.

Trippy Haps @ Jul 8th 2008 7:19PM

I don't believe it was Big Boss's intention to send a man to his death. The captured soldier was simply supposed to "spring the trap".

Sure, that could be a stretch, but I feel it's backed up by the narrator questioning, "Why did we shoot him on sight? Why did we not interrogate him?"

So Boss wasn't acting as some coward, sending a man to a senseless death. He was simply outwitting his enemies...his only fault ((a gullible mistake, so we agree on that)) was not realizing how ruthless their tactics would be.