Kojima says MGS: Peace Walker is his MGS5, calls Rising a 'different kind of action' game

by David Hinkle on Jun 15th 2009 1:14PM

Despite stating that he would be more hands-off with the Metal Gear Solid games after the fourth installment, Kojima has decided to once again roll up his sleeves and get his hands dirty with Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker. Speaking with Japanese mag Famitsu (via PSPHyper), the gaming icon has said that Peace Walker will pretty much be his MGS5 -- something that will likely be excellent news to every Genome soldier reading this very post -- and that the MGS4 team will be working on it. (For some new Peace Walker screens, fresh out of Kojima Productions, check out our gallery embedded below).

Moving on to Metal Gear Solid Rising, Kojima says the game will include "a completely different kind of action than what has appeared in the series so far," though we're not sure if that's a good or bad thing. He also mentioned that he will be involved with the project "more deeply" than a normal producer which, considering the expectations and the new engine involved, makes sense.

The implicit bad news here: With all this Metal Gear stuff taking up Kojima's time (not to mention Castlevania: Lords of Shadow), we're unlikely to see that rumored Snatcher and/or Zone of the Enders and/or Something Else title anytime soon.

Source - Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker details
Source - Kojima discusses Metal Gear Solid Rising [via Eurogamer]

Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker (06/15/09)

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Tags: Hideo-Kojima, kojima, kojima-productions, metal-gear-solid, metal-gear-solid-4, Metal-Gear-Solid-4-Guns-of-the-Patriots, metal-gear-solid-peace-walker, metal-gear-solid-rising, Microsoft, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (135)

This makes me very happy- I loved portable ops! With this being the next MGS it's probably gonna be waay larger than Portable OPs!

Well rising is focusing on Raiden and getting his status up to the level of Snake's, so it's no suprise it plays differently, probably focuses more on his blade, techu style.

OH NO!!! ITS AN ON-RAILS SHOOTER!!!!

MGS4 was such a technical marvel...and now you want me to SERIOUSLY downgrade the enjoyment of my experience by putting it on a portable gaming system. Blah. I've purchased every Metal Gear game ever (save MG2 on Nintendo). Some even twice over. But this...this I will not get.

I suppose this is good news for you PSP fans. But I'm not happy as a fan and follower of the series.

I've been saying it ever since they revealed Metal Gear Solid Rising that it's going to be a FPS of some sort (remember how Kojima was seen meeting up with a bunch of American FPS companies a while ago to collaborate on a game or something? they had the news right on this website when it happened, but i forget the details now).

Now I haven't looked up anything at all on this game, so if anything's been revealed about the game then it's likely everything I'm saying is wrong. But seeing as Kojima met up with Western FPS developers a while ago and now he's stating that Rising will have "a completely different kind of action than what has appeared in the series so far", I'm starting to think that maybe it's going to be a First Person Shooter of some sort.

Of course, I'm probably completely wrong, but based on my limited knowledge this seems the most logical explanation to me.

Seeing how Raiden pretty much is a sword (and weird lightning power) user in MGS4 I'm going to lean towards it not being an FPS. My guess is more on a Ninja Gaiden style game of sorts. Or Devil May Cry, as others have indicated.

Rising IS being released on PS3, 360 and PC.

W00t :-)

Looking forward to the Big Boss game, but not so much to the Raiden one... it just feels kinda out of place. Like many said before, it's gonna be a totally different beast. Only time will tell if this is a good or bad thing.

Anyway. MGS3 is still my all-time MGS fave so I'm really glad they're continuing the tale. And well, MGS: PO felt more of a spin-off with all that capturing and stuff, so I'm really thrilled the PSP is getting a full-Kojima-attention MG game :)

he is so full of himself

So basically what this means is that the true MGS experiance will still be on Playstation brands. I know someone said that alot of x360 owners own PSPs, it basically means that the Playstation brand is getting the true MGS experiance, I'm not saying that the spin-off MGS Rising isn't part of MGS, but fact of the matter is; is that without Snake as a playable character, it makes the game different really and not truly a part of it's tradition.

I'm glad that Raiden is getting some spot-light and it's only fair that Snake would pass the torch to Raiden. However; it still stands that if you want a traditional espinoige, you must own a Playstation brand console/handheld, or an old school Nintendo.

The real bad news here is that MGS5 will be released with worse graphics than MGS3 had and a poor control setup, both due to the PSP. This is 2 steps backward for the franchise and I think it sucks. I hope they at least also port it to PS2, like they did with the latest Ratchet and Jak PSP games.

Agreed. A PS2 port would make it at least passable. But nothing like the PS3 technical achievement from before. This seems clearly in the name of 'making some money' by working on a cheaper to develop system so they can subsidize for future projects.

That's fine by me. Just don't call it MGS5.

ratchet and JAK? where can I buy this game?

The Ratchet game, and the Jak game. Better?

lol, I know, but i want a f*cking game like that.

MGS fan before all. I'd play it on a 1986 mario watch.

How many of y'all remember those?

I'd definately consider getting a PSP when this comes out.
I just wish they had 2 analogue sticks though! I need to control that bloody camera!!!

Translation: I don't want to piss off the PS3 fanbase because, frankly, them people are scary. ._.

I meant Sony. There goes my horrible joke. I'm a loser. D:

So this game's going to be great, eh? Count me in! (As if I wasn't planning to buy it already, ha!)

I have a question... which games are coming for which systems, and what are they? Every article that comes out mentions upcoming MGS games but doesn't say what system they are for.

I have a 360 but no PS3. I have zero interest in a game with 5 hours of cutscenes (I don't want to play movies, I want to play games), but if this article is saying that an upcoming 360 game will be more "action oriented", I might be interested...

Help?

Metal Gear Solid Rising: 360/PS3
Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker : PSP

Thanks

Besides, this is the same little handheld that can power up a full GTA experience, hold 800 GT cars, and play Monster Hunter, a game I've had for ages and have yet to complete before I can get Freedom Unite.

Don't underestimate PSP.

Amen, people need to realise what the PSP can do

You guys are right.

Having the sequel a game that pushed the PS3 to its limits clearly belongs on the PSP ;-)

From 1080p to 272p
From Blu-ray to UMD
From the big screen to the little screen

There are so many great reasons to be excited about this game that I might have just wet myself.

Its gonna be great!

Metal Gear Solid: Hack n Slash.

Yawn.

Nope, the MGS experience is NOT coming to the 360. I had (very) high hopes for this when it was announced, but now it just seems like Kojima is mocking 360 gamers much like the Japanese mocked American gamers during the SNES days.Remember FF 4/2, anyone? They dumbed it down because they thought American gamers were TOO STUPID to handle the actual game. The same thing is happening here. This game will be little more than a hack-n-slash in the MGS universe.

Am I the only one thinking Rising might play a bit like zone of the enders? what with Raiden being all fast and fighting with swords and what not.

I was really hoping for a new Zone of the Enders. Too bad.

It's becoming painfully obvious that this game is "Ninja Gaiden Raiden Edition" and nothing else.

haha... I bet the game was called "Raiden Rising" and Microsoft paid them to put a Metal Gear Solid in front of it ;)

Sony fantards still trying to convince the world that MGSR isn't an MGS game and some PSP release is somehow the real MGS game.

I will let Kojima's own words on that:

"Metal Gear Rising will be the next-gen MGS game".

Notice even he calls it a Metal Gear Solid game and not only that is the next-generation of it. I know there is a lot of bitterness that MGS is on 360 now too but the desperate attempts to seperate this Metal Gear game from the others because you are butt hurt by the fact it's on the 360 is beyond pityful.

And yes I will be playing MGSR day one on my Xbox 360! Woooooooot!!!! I will even trade in my MGS4 PS3 copy/dust collector in order to buy it! Woooooooot!

Show me your raaaaageee droids!

this can't be wright as kojima had stated that mgs4 would be the last metal gear he was to ever make... only to had said that at that time the only other metal gear next to come out would only be by the mgs team and NOT kojima himself.!

Portable Ops wasnt as good as people make it out to be, it was just like a watered down version of MGS3 that didnt even compare to MGS1, but now that Kojimas working directly n Peace Walker, im pretty excited as i own a PSP! I dont have a ps3, so i am completely devastated about not playing MGS4 (i might try to rent a console) and when the news came that MGS was coming to Xbox, i pissed myself. But now it sounds like its not even a stealth game.

Poo.

some people are saying wat do get out of seeing the 360 miss out on some games but the PS3 is missing out on some stuff out for the 360 so just deal with it ur not getting snake on ur 3shity u get raiden pssh lol

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