At the MGS4 Press Conference in Japan yesterday, many tie-in products were revealed. These include "Regain 24" energy drinks, UNIQLO T-shirts, I-pod, British motorcycle manufacturer Triumph Motorcycles, Sony Ericsson cellphones, ga-ko alarm clock, Assasin's Creed, movie "I Am Legend", and Japanese idol Akina Minami.
1. "Regain 24" energy drinks that appear in the game will replenish Snake's health and stamina; while in real life, with the slogan of "Can you fight for 24 hours?" the product will go on sale at Japanese convenient stores on June 10 for 294 yen. The drink will come with a MGS4 phone strap that is the form of either a cleaning cloth, or a dog-tag shaped flash light.
2. UNIQLO MGS4 T-shirts will have 6 different design variations, with 2 different colored T-shirts for each design. Sizes are from S-XL and will be in UNIQLO stores on June 12 for 1500 yen each. A press release from the Japanese UNIQLO says the MGS4 T-shirts will also be on sale at overseas UNIQLO stores. If you live in US, the only UNIQLO store here is in New York, those who wants to get their hands on the T-shirt might want to google the New York Store for availability.
3. Sony Ericsson cellphone "W62S" will also make a appearance in MGS4. The main feature of the W62S in real life is that it can be used anywhere in the world in 180 different countries. In the game, Vamp and Naomi will also communicate from different parts of the world using this Sony made cellphone.
4. If you happened to owned a Japanese Docomo cellphone (which the Sony Ericsson series also belong to), you can download a menu application/game called "Ganbare Snake" for 525 yen.
5. Sunny's "ga-ko" cooking timer that appears in the game is also being made into an alarm clock, which goes on sale July 31 for 2940 yen.
6. I-pod makes an appearance in the game, with Snake owning the 30GB model. Snake can use his I-pod by selecting and equipping it from the weapons menu. This allows you to select your favorite stage music. The song list can be increased as you control Snake to find different music data hidden in stages and download them to the I-pod. Rumor hint towards you might also be able to download episodes of Kojima's own web radio show "HideRadio".
7. British motorcycle manufacturer Triumph Motorcycles makes an appearance with model "Bonneville T100" as Big Mama's favorite ride. Another popular model "Speed Triple" will also be featured in the game.
8. Japanese Idol Akina Minami will be featured as a pin-up girl, with her pictures to sooth many tired soldiers in MGS4. Snake will say her nickname "Akeena" with joy if he finds her poster.
9. Assassin's Creed as Snake gets Altair's custom with a hidden in game event.
10, Rental video "I Am Legend" will come with a MGS4 Premium Trailer included in the previews.
The above are info taken and translated from the original Famitsu article in no particular order. Click on Read More to see the all the related pictures on the original Japanese Famitsu site.
The PlayStation 3 may not have been the strongest generation for Sony, but there were still some diamonds in the rough that deserve a revisit as PS5 remasters.
Even if they could just remaster and put on PSVR2, some would still look great as VR titles and could do a whole lot to bolster the headset w these exclusives! I'd imagine the investment of reworking these titles into VR would be way less than building new games from the ground up, and they could be amazing experiences, and VR often makes flat games feel fresh again. The Resistance and Killzone games are particularly what I want to see!!
The time is perfect for a resistance fall of man game campaign coop multiplayer
Resistance was ok but Warhawk and Starhawk was better and kept me coming back for almost a decade of fun and petty revenge on the loud mouth unskilled players 🤣
Edit I loved capture the flag dropping the pot on the flag carrier was extremely satisfying as well as transforming your plane in bot form and stumping them to death 😱
An article looking at the symbolic meaning behind the cigarettes in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots.
Game creator Hideo Kojima is and probably will always be best-known for his creation and stewardship of the Metal Gear series at Konami, which since his departure has been more-or-less on permanent hiatus (don't mention Survive). In his almost three decades these games evolved to the point where they predicted certain problems of the information age (MGS 2), took aim at contemporary topics like Guantanamo Bay (MGS: Ground Zeroes), and ended on a profound sense of sadness about our species' inability to break the cycles of global conflict (MGS V).
It's not clear what sparked this reflection, but Kojima's been thinking about Metal Gear Solid 4, an entry that was (and unfortunately still remains) a PlayStation 3 exclusive. In that entry the player controls an aged Solid Snake in the year 2014, caught up in a civil war being fought between Private Military Companies (PMCs).
He was always ahead with this series. MSG1 taught me about the importance of passing on our genes into future generations but in a responsible way, for they are bound to what we experienced in our lifetime. Sons of liberty taught me about global control and simulation runs to test society in a grand scale, the importance and dangers of control of information. MGS3 taught me about patriotism and how that can blind you into doing things you never would have otherwise, all for the sake of politicians who only see you as another pawn in their grand scheme of things. MSG4 taught me war is inevitable and always orchestrated because it's great for the economy. Soon simulation systems will start dictating who goes to war and why, all run through proxies. Privatization of military company are already here. We already started to see how a small group of elites dictates everything that happens. Nothing is done, nothing happens without strings being pulled.
If it wasn't for the retconning of how FOXDIE works, including clunky scenes with Naomi and Liquid, MGS4 would be a perfect game. There are so many gameplay options. It felt like us PS3 owners got something truly unique and special.
It's the Japanese Halo! :D
If someone could help out a newbie for posting news/articles:
Is there a way to make text hyperlinks work in these articles?
I tried to hyperlink pics to each related product from the original article, but had to remove them since it didn't seemlike it worked when I previewed the post.
I think this would've been a better article if I could've just hyperlink those pics, and probably have gotten the story out faster =/
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