Metal Gear Solid 4 15-Minute HD trailer, and 15 new high-res screenshots

Announced in November of 2004 (and finally announced officially at E3 2005 by Hideo Kojima). The title is a next-generation adventure set in the aftermath of MGS2: Sons of Liberty. Kojima is in charge of as game design, production, and direction (along with additional director Shuyo Murata), with Ken-Ichiro Imaizumi producing the title and Yoji Shinkawa handling character design.

The concept behind the project is "No place to hide", and the new edition of the series will force Solid Snake into unexpected circumstances in an all-new storyline that breaks away in some ways from the previous MGS franchise entries.

[Bill Nye]

I'm assuming the submitter has a subscription on GameSpot to view the HD trailer.

[OutLaw]

The trailer came from Gametrailers.com

[gamerriffic]

sorry about that, i originaly posted the link for IGN, but IGN also requires a substription. I thought that GameSpot did not, sorry about this..... nice screen shots?

[Gh0stDrag0n]

YELLOW?????????

[TheMART]

Well I must say these trailers look good. It's about the only game that would justify a PS3 in my eyes. But still there are questions that raise.

This is not ingame, maybe it is inengine. We've seen CGI from Killzone 2 and Motorstorm @ E3 2005 and there is nothing left of that impressive graphic quality by now. So how is this game going to hold up the created hype?

I am really curious. This is by no means a post just to post bad about PS3, this is a serious question in my mind and I think on either side of fanboys PS and XBOX

But Snake gets old, that's clear. And even this trailer almost gives me the idea that the PS will be a movie machine/cinematic and not real deal on gaming

[Gh0stDrag0n]

The PS3 is a movie player first, "computer" second, household appliance third, and finally a game console.

[ACE]

he has lost the plot ,,,, some one should tell him you are a game developer not a cgi movie maker lol!!...

ITS VERY CLEAR THAT THE PS3 IS OVER HYPED ,,

I WONT GO ON AND WAIST MY TIME WITH THE BRAIN WASHED SONY FANS LATER

[OutLaw]

I was like wow when he was at the graveyard and the helicopter came. The shadows off of the trees was great. Then I notice the whole video had this piss color to it that wasn't all that appealing. Then I thought, ok can my 360 do this? The answer is yes. Because there hasn't been no game footage yet only cinema. So as much as I love Metal Gear. The verdict for this one is still out.

[BOOSTIN]

did anyone else notice that the mechs made COW SOUNDS???? G@Y!!!!

[Truth]

ZOE2 and MGS3 were the most beautiful games on the PS2 and rivaled if not surpassed some of the best things the XBOX had to offer.

Hideo Kojima is in the business of making games, not lying to his fans. This IS what the game will look like if not better by the games release.

[OutLaw]

You say this is how the game is going to look like if not better? Than you are trying to say that this is gameplay. My friend I highly doubt it. This kind of cinema could be done on my DVD. Take final fantasy 7 the movie. Graphics on that looks better than this. So calm down with your protection.

[shoota33]

if you played mgs games before you would know the cinema has the same graphics as the gameplay.stop being an ignorant fanboy and hating on ps3

[OutLaw]

Thats exactly what I'm talking about you ps3 fans feel you need to call other gamers names, Just to make a point. The ignorant fanboy thing could have been left out. If you see when I replied to the Truth. I didn't call him any names. But said my friend. So if anybody starts these system wars, is you guys.

[Truth]

I'm just utterly amazed that after Hideo has made games like ZOE2, MGS2 and MGS3... people actually doubt that what he is showing can be done. It's like some kind of retarded blindness towards what the PS3 is capable of. Amazing.

[OutLaw]

I'm not doubting hideo. I'm doubting Sony. I just ask do you really believe this is game play. so calm down. The one who is being blind is you. Sony hasn't shown Sh!t to make me think they could do this, not Konami. So instead of trying to criticize people, answer the question next time. Thats all you had to do. Now cut the nonsense.

[ACE]

you jokeing right? ..

ur of ur head mate ,,,, the only good thing about mgs games is the video footage lol!!

i got mgs on xbox load of over hyped poo took it back changed it for some thing else and ended up keep the next game so what ever...

[sonyISgod]

Let me ask you this than. Whom is producing this game? Are you implying that Sony is making this game? Are you saiding that Sony helping to produce the game? If you doubt this game than you're doubting Kojima. From his past work, does he ever lie? You are just pathetic for not being able to accept that this game alone look beyond any titles on the 360. Ooh, and don't give me that CG BS, because it seem like all 360 fans seem to think that all of Sony titles are CG and all of M$ titles are real-time. All of you 360 are sad and pathetic for thinking that you're funny and hoping for fairy tale to turn into reality.

[OutLaw]

Nobody ask for your opinion. No matter what I say You would turn it around. I already told you what I'm doing with the system. So STFU already.

[ACE]

what ever man sony are well known for showing cgi ,,, fact!!

errr look at e3 05 sony said the ps3 will do this and that and showd aload of CGI lol ,,,,

e3 06 what happend? to all the quality of graphics etc ? some how the in game stuff they showd didnt even come close to the cgi they showd at e3 05 it was imbarassing lol!!...

people where yawning at there show ,,, what a joke ....

ms have made a more powerfull GAMES CONSOLE then sony this is fact mate ,,, i have read like a year and a halfs worth of stuff on the ps3 tech side of things,, the GOOD the bad and the ugly lol put it all to geather and sony have fukd up this time round ,,,,,

the graphics on the 360 look more solid better textures etc so what ever man i dont know what you looking at or what but you are WRONG IN A BIG WAY MATE WAKE UP LOL!!....

I LOVE THE SAYING :::::

FONY STATION 3 FANS ARE LIKE GOLD FISH THEY HAVE A 6 SECOND MEMMORY SO THEY KEEP FORGGETTING HOW OFTEN SONY FUK THEM UP THE AR$E """ FACT!! """

I WAS A SONY FAN BUT I HAVE WOKE UP SO LATER MATE TO UR HIGH HOPES LOL

[PS360PCROCKS]

Agreed this is definetly CGI, this game will look no better than GOW which is saying ALOT

[PS360PCROCKS]

if it looks that good

[clayton]

The PS3 gpu is not capable of that in realtime, unless you want one frame per hour.

[sonyISgod]

You both sound like a moron, need I to say more? I think not. How pathetic are you two anyways, you act like M$ never dispromise your lil ass. Don't give me that BS, about E3 05, and why are you forget that the games shown at E3 06 were around 20% to 35% complete. All of you are lying to yourself and trying to compare an uncomplete games to your complete games. How sad could all of you get.

[clayton]

Couldn't do that in real time not with just 256mb of graphic memory, I swear these fanboys are idiots, you couldn't get that with 512mb of memory either. The ps3 has a current gen pc graphic card in it, if you could afford a pc you would know this, it sports nothing more than a 7900gtx at most.

[sonyISgod]

Nvidia state that the PS3 gpu will surpass the 7900GTX, and might as well reach 7900GTX SLI. Now you tell me if that kind of gpu power can't produce that kind of graphic. If you still think so than you are in a complete denial.

[clayton]

give me a link or something, because that is total bs my friend

[TiTuS]

Im not so shore that any of us are correct, the reason being that the PS3 graphic chip is much more powerful than 2 * 7950 gt's and much more cheaper aswell , but I am for the record one hell of a PC gamer and im not taking anything away from the PC but we have to take into consideration that the PS3 is going to set new limits for the PC and hopefully the hardware prices will drop cause i need new hardware to run Hellgate and crysis, but for the PS3 you dont need any upgrades or any system specs you just buy and PLAY.

[clayton]

I read a statement from nvidia saying it was as powerful as two 6800ultras in sli, which is nothing but a 7800-7900gtx

[sonyISgod]

You 360 fans are a bunch of moron arnt you? PC requird more ram simply because it doesn't only have to handle Games Software. A gaming system doesn't requird much rams to run a high graphical games. Don't forget that the RSX use it own ram + the XDR ram as well, so the RSX end up using 512mb of rams. You can't compare consoles games to a PC games simply because a PC hardware have to be aware of the fact that it run so many different application and a Consoles games only need to focus on the games alone.

[clayton]

Vaporware, no it is linux, which is you guessed it, say it with me an "OPERATING SYSTEM" which is say it with me "SOFTWARE", so as in the words that come out of your mouth, PS# fanboys are sadd little peoples, pathetics peoples, morons, LOL for christs sake get a life

[sonyISgod]

Go watch this Vid, The Nvidia dude is talking about Qual SLI, and near the end the PS3 subject came up and he said to expect the PS3 graphic to be similar to the Qual SLI.
http://www.gametrailers.com...

[clayton]

This came from PLAYSTATION MAGAZINE PWNED

nVidia spokesperson was quoted in PlayStation Magazine saying that the RSX GPU is basically a slightly less powerful GeForce 7800.
So says Evil Avatar, having seen the magazine.*
This puts paid to the rumours that the RSX was basically an off-the-shelf 7800 chipset, though the big news is in the "RSX is slightly less powerful" part of the statement. If one was to do some quick graphics card math, this would mean that the RSX chip powering the PlayStation 3 is less powerful than two GeForce 6800's running in SLI mode – as the 7800 is – and according to Microsoft and ATi, the Xbox 360 GPU is more powerful than the same SLI combo.

[clayton]

quad sli isn't 4X the power you idiot, sli isn't 2X the power more like 1.5. Obviously you haven't owned a sli or crossfire system, so you wouldn't know. It may be similar, and the is no graphical difference between sli and quad sli, they just run smoother.

[clayton]

But a 550mhz gpu with 256mb of dedicated couldn't possibly run games like quad sli which is 4 time that with 2gb of dedicated memory. In case you haven't heard the PS3 gpu cost $70 to produce, if it was that powerful it sure as hell wouldn't be in a ps3.

[clayton]

This came from PLAYSTATION MAGAZINE PWNED

nVidia spokesperson was quoted in PlayStation Magazine saying that the RSX GPU is basically a slightly less powerful GeForce 7800.
So says Evil Avatar, having seen the magazine.*
This puts paid to the rumours that the RSX was basically an off-the-shelf 7800 chipset, though the big news is in the "RSX is slightly less powerful" part of the statement. If one was to do some quick graphics card math, this would mean that the RSX chip powering the PlayStation 3 is less powerful than two GeForce 6800's running in SLI mode – as the 7800 is – and according to Microsoft and ATi, the Xbox 360 GPU is more powerful than the same SLI combo.

[sonyISgod]

You fool thoes are old news. Why do 360 fans always back up there claim with old news? I have no idea of why, but it's just pathetic of to even think of it. "Just sad".

256ram you said, if you still havn't get your fact str8, the rsx could use the whole system rams. 512mb of rams. Look like you just base your claim on the past.

[clayton]

The rsx has 256mb of dedicated ram, the cpu uses the other 256mb of ram, I hate sony and I even know this. Look around at what the developers said about the 256mb of ram, they said it will be a nightmare running high res textures through 256mb of ram.

[clayton]

An NVidia spokesperson said that, yeah thats right, the people that designed the rsx. If anybody knows its them. You sound like you are in a nut house, rambling and rambling, my 2 year old can speak better english than you son, get a life.

[sonyISgod]

you need to do more research before Claiming some BS. Here is something you and the 360 should read.

PS3 CPU:
The Cell processor was co-designed by IBM, Toshiba and Sony. Configurations can differ, but here's what the PS3's Cell chip will be like: PowerPC-based Core @ 3.2GHz

# 7 SPEs @ 3.2GHz
# 512KB L2 Cache
# 7 x 256KB SRAM for SPEs

Basically, a single Cell processor is designed to act like multiple processors working together, or even independently. A Cell processor has a single PowerPC Architecture Unit (PAU) and multiple Synergistic Processing Elements (SPEs). A Cell's PAU dolls out instructions to its various SPEs, which can then independently work on tasks. So for instance, one SPU might be programmed to run a game's AI while another handles physics. Since each one acts independently, multiple calculations can be done simultaneously. In other words, it's very powerful. In fact, it's powerful enough to perform 218 GFLOPS.

PS3 GPU:
NVIDIA's chip is codenamed RSX. The chip runs at 550MHz and is capable of rendering two 1080p signals simultaneously. It's touted to hit 1.8 TFLOPS of floating point performance and can perform 100 billion shader operations per second, or 136 shader operations per cycle. The RSX uses 128-bit precision for enhanced color definition, making the system capable of High Dynamic Range rendering. Programming-wise, it's based on OpenGL and NVIDIA's CG language.

NVIDIA recently released its GeForce 7900 GTX GPU for the PC, which provides a reasonable real-world approximation of what sort of effects the RSX and PlayStation 3 can handle. The RSX is said to be a step beyond the GeForce 7900 GTX however, making it faster than anything currently available for the PC.

http://ps3.ign.com/articles...

[mephixto]

It's ingame, look the lack of anti-aliasing in all the screenshots (specially the cigarrete), CGI Movies have Anti-aliasing you noobs.

[mephixto]

Hideo Kojima Interview:

"EGM: Will the gameplay look as good as the trailer? It's real-time, right?

Hideo Kojima: Yes, it is real-time, made with nearly final PS3 tools. My staff put a lot of time into, but you still see a little glitching going on. Hopefully, we should be able to fix all of that. We're only now learning how to best use the PS3, so we should be able to greatly enhance the visuals of the final product"

http://www.gamersreports.co...

[FeralPhoenix]

Hey I love the 360 just as much as anybody, but in my opinion this game looks great, whether its CGI or not in the end its going to look pretty damm good in realtime when Kojima is finished....I like MGS overall, although its a little bit heavy on the cutscenes and dialogue in my opinion otherwise MGS serious is usually pretty good, and Im sure this one will be great too, because Kojima (not Sony) said he's been working very hard on it....but for now Im enjoying the hell out of my 360 with the majority of games now and future titles soon to be released (GOW,Halo 3, Mass Effect, etc.)

[gamerriffic]

its done in real time, the ps3 dev it was shown to dip down in some parts of the trailer when it was shown live on the devkits on the E3 showfloor. if we look in the past of mgs history, the gameplay looked just as the cinimatics, graphicly. same character models same graphics ssame detail. even with mgs1 they did cinimatics with the in engine. mgs4 will look that good if not better.

[jinn]

next gen of MGS series has arrived

[user9422077]

awesome!