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Big Boss, Raiden appear as Kojima/Konami teaser resets

By Tor Thorsen, GameSpotPosted May 26, 2009 8:07 pm PT

Solid Snake's commanding officer/nemesis/father figure appears on Kojima site; Famitsu scan shows acrobatic character's appearance; next reveal 3pm Sunday, May 31.

Any doubts that the mysterious "Kojima Productions Next" project was not part of the Metal Gear Solid canon were erased today, when a character from the long-running series appeared on the game's--or games'-- teaser Web site. As part of a countdown teaser--which has now been reset for a third time to end at 3 p.m. PDT on Sunday, May 31--the site is now flashing a shot of Big Boss (pictured), series hero Solid Snake's erstwhile commanding officer and often-nemesis. The characters' semiyouthful age points to a period after Metal Gear Solid 3's Vietnam-era setting and before that of the original Metal Gear.

[UPDATE] The countdown clock has now changed to expire at 3 p.m. Monday, June 1.

Big Boss, reporting for duty.

Were that not enough to rally the Kojima faithful, several scans of Famitsu magazine posted by gaming blog Kotaku reveal that the site will eventually show another member of the MGS canon, Raiden. Alongside the teaser site's pic of Big Boss, Famitsu's Raiden image shows the character in futuristic armor--and with one eye patched over--which indicates that it is from a game set after the events of Metal Gear Solid 4.

The temporal dichotomy between the two shots has led to speculation that two separate games may be announced by Kojima Productions and Konami. So far, one game has been all but confirmed for a PlayStation-branded platform, whereas a Metal Gear Solid 4 port is rumored to be coming to the Xbox 360.

Such a game was hinted at the end of Hideo Kojima's 2009 Game Developers Conference keynote address, when the game designer posted a slide touting "The Next Metal Gear" and apparently showing Raiden. Strangely, the Kojima interview accompanying the shot has large sections redacted to hide the identity of the new game.

Today's revelations only add to Metal Gear fans' near-painful level of anticipation in the run-up to next week's Electronic Entertainment Expo. Check back at GameSpot on Sunday for the latest developments from the Kojima Productions teaser and for live coverage of Konami's press conference from 3-5pm on Wednesday, June 3.

1371 Comments

  • demonkero

    Posted Dec 15, 2009 9:36 am PT

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  • shii666

    Posted Oct 27, 2009 7:09 pm PT

    Ha, I win being the final comment!

  • teamsolo

    Posted Aug 28, 2009 5:56 pm PT

    i hope they make a remake of the first metal gaer and metal gear 2 solid snake

  • dratines

    Posted Jul 7, 2009 2:05 pm PT

    MSD Rising and PeaceWalker
    this is gonna be a hell of a ride

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    Posted Jul 6, 2009 7:09 pm PT

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  • menusilect

    Posted Jul 3, 2009 7:48 am PT

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  • skywalkerforce

    Posted Jun 19, 2009 5:59 pm PT

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  • Sharishi

    Posted Jun 17, 2009 9:41 am PT

    asian_pride69
    Peacewalker is an exclusive to the PSP

  • SQUALL20XX

    Posted Jun 9, 2009 11:37 am PT

    Oh really great

  • SSBFan12

    Posted Jun 7, 2009 8:26 am PT

    This game looks amazing I can't wait to get it.

  • asian_pride69

    Posted Jun 3, 2009 8:08 pm PT

    Metal Gear Solid: Rising and Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker. One of them won't be an exclusive to the 360. Or that's what I heard at least.

  • GuilSSJ

    Posted Jun 3, 2009 3:30 pm PT

    1360th comment

  • earl_hickey

    Posted Jun 3, 2009 9:22 am PT

    so many mgs's, AWESOME

  • PSFreak1

    Posted Jun 3, 2009 6:27 am PT

    Metal Gear Solid: Rising wooohoo and Metal Gear Peace something woohooo

  • berkice

    Posted Jun 2, 2009 1:29 pm PT

    No mention of Rising in Sonys conference today, and its not even on xbox's own site, despite all the other big xbox releases being there, there are still some unanswered questions, i think its so early in the production stage that they have not truly been able to release it, only tell is its coming, we wont see nothing difinitive (a proper trailer or gameplay) til E3 next year i think...

  • gmax Site moderator

    Posted Jun 2, 2009 8:34 am PT

    Mmm... Countdowns...

  • alpha546

    Posted Jun 1, 2009 9:27 pm PT

    big boss !!!!!!!!!

  • LOTSA_SPAGHETTI

    Posted Jun 1, 2009 5:06 pm PT

    Refresh your page if you still see the counter page. But don't expect to see the new site right away, because the interwebz traffic is so great.

  • shadowmonk77

    Posted Jun 1, 2009 4:26 pm PT

    its at the storm again with the timer at 00:00:00. Time Paradox??

  • shadowmonk77

    Posted Jun 1, 2009 4:21 pm PT

    Man i was watching that when the timer ran out..but nothing happend. what is going on with the freezing page load?

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