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Konami Social Media Manager, Peter Howell here with the Assistant Producer, Sean Eyestone of Kojima Productions.
Getting ready to show off the HD version of METAL GEAR SOLID: PEACE WALKER, part of the forthcoming METAL GEAR SOLID HD COLLECTION for 360 and PS3.
- Sean, how you doing? - Great, uh yeah, we're here today to show you the 360 version of METAL GEAR SOLID: PEACE WALKER, which is part of the
HD remastered collection, uh that we're coming out with. Which will also include METAL GEAR SOLID 2 as well as METAL GEAR SOLID 3 and PEACE WALKER.
Uh, today we're just going to show PEACE WALKER. Hopefully point out some things that are different, some things that are familiar, uh and give all you guys
at home who couldn't make it to E3 a chance to see what's up, basically right?
Awesome. Let's jump in the walk-through.
So here we are at the start of our E3 demo. Uh, the first thing you'll see is that the graphics look very good. Uh, this is a METAL GEAR SOLID game, it's known for graphics.
and even though it's a PSP game, we spent a lot of time on the graphics and now that we ported it over to HD platforms, such as the PS3 and Xbox 360,
we spent a lot of time, uh, remastering everything, a lot of the textures, and make sure all the geometry was rendered in really nice hi-res HD.
Uh, so first thing you'll see, is I, you know, not running and gunning through this stage. Uh, for those who maybe haven't played METAL GEAR for awhile,
or have not played PEACE WALKER, uh you know, PEACE WALKER is, you know, an official chapter in the METAL GEAR SOLID series,
and, there's a lot more to it than meets the eye. Uh, obviously, the best way to get through a stage, is to sneak through, and so that's what I'm going to do here.
just going to sneak around. Uh, you'll notice that uh, you know from the button icon here, you'll see that we are playing the Xbox 360 version as mentioned earlier, so that's one thing that seperates
this game apart from the PS3 remastered programs, where they are taking PSP games, and putting them on PS3.
Uh, you know, for PEACE WALKER and for METAL GEAR SOLID 2 and 3 as well, we've really taken you know the original classic METAL GEAR games, and brought them over to the PS3 and the
360, and really optimized things. All right, another thing here that I'm going to point out is that I'm Fultoning this guy, uh, which is that balloon thing you see right there.
Uh, for those that haven't played PEACE WALKER, that's something new to PEACE WALKER, where you can actually recruit soldiers to your mother base.
and uh, you know, build your own army basically. So, you know you are Naked Snake, you are Big Boss, and you're kinda building your Outer Heaven, so that's what this game is all about.
And, so proceeding on here, uh, you'll notice as well, that the icons on the right side of the screen, look very nice, uh, we've redrawn all that, uh you know, we've redone all the UI
uh, we've redone all the text, all the fonts, everything. Uh, you'll notice the inventory as well, you know, we have a lot of classic items, binoculars
sound indicator, things like that. And all that plays a vital role in the game play. So here we are, you know, sound plays an integral part of uh, of the game play here. We're using it to kinda distract
this guy. And looking at our sound indicator, we can see, you know, where this guy is headed and what threats are around us.
So, I'll just go ahead and sneak up behind him.
All right, there we go. And, uh you know Snake, for those who don't know, he's a master of CQC which is Close Quarters Combat, and he can grab people like this, interrogate them
uh, and you use a lot of strategy and you'll see from there, you can use the environment to your advantage as well.
You know, if throw an enemy into a wall, it will knock them out faster, things like that.
Uh, you know, Big Boss, uh has grown in the ten years since METAL GEAR SOLID 3 SNAKE EATER. He's much stronger now, a little more brutal
uh, you know he has new techniques. Uh, one new thing in here as well, well I'm not going to show right now is also something called consecutive CQC, which you use when you're in a pinch
if you're surrounded by a bunch of enemies, and you can use that to get out of, uh, a group of enemies, and just kinda consecutively throw them.
All right, so let's go ahead and get through here. As usual, the best way to get through a stage, is sneaking. This is METAL GEAR SOLID after all.
So we'll go ahead and get through here. And you'll notice from this load screen as well, you know, load times are fairly short, um, we've been trying to keep it down, and the UI has been redone here as well
the maps look really nice, uh, all the icons have been redrawn.
All right, so we're getting real close to the end of the stage here. Um, you know I was mentioning previously, the best way to get through the stage is to sneak. That's the most efficient way to do it.
But, you know, there are other people who want to run and gun, and also its inevitable, that at some point, you're probably going to get spotted, so another thing I like to point out
is how Battle works. So let's go ahead and run out here. Pick up some guns. Ah, there we go. You'll see that the game play is pretty smooth
uh, you know, we've actually remapped the buttons on the PS3 and 360 versions to take advantage of the right analog stick
So, where as on the PSP, you use the face buttons to control the camera, here you can use the right analog stick, which is similar to, uh you know, METAL GEAR SOLID 4
for those who are probably more custom to that style of game play and you know really, like any other, uh, modern, uh you know, first person shooter or third person shooter.
So, it should feel natural to anyone, even new comers to the METAL GEAR SOLID series.
All right, so let's go to this door here, and uh, yeah that's pretty much the end of the stage. So, uh that concludes our E3 demo. Thank you everybody for watching, hope you enjoyed it.
- Sean, thank you for the look at the game. It looks incredible. - Thank you. Thank you very much and uh, to everybody at home, please look forward to the game.
It's coming out this winter. It's part of the METAL GEAR SOLID HD COLLECTION. It will include METAL GEAR SOLID 2, 3 and PEACE WALKER. So, I hope you all enjoyed this sneak peek today
and uh, we look forward to giving more information in the future.
Very cool, in the meantime, stay tuned to facebook.com/mgs for more exclusive updates. We'll see you guys soon.