E3 06: MGS4 trailer stops show at Konami booth

By Brendan Sinclair, Tor Thorsen, GameSpotPosted May 10, 2006 5:52 pm PT

As has become tradition, the latest glimpse of Kojima's next project packs them in; crowd spills over into neighboring N-Gage booth.

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LOS ANGELES--Each year, the Electronic Entertainment Expo sees several archetypes of people turn up: those who are there to scam swag, those who are there to ogle booth babes, and those who are there to play actual games. There's also the traditional annual rush of Hideo Kojima worshippers over to Konami's booth to watch the latest Metal Gear Solid trailer.

This year, a crowd of attendees took a load off in front of the Konami booth's main screen to watch the new extended trailer for Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots for the PlayStation 3. The trailer was previously only seen by attendees to the Konami press briefing and was much longer than the trailer shown at the Sony conference. (It is now viewable via the official Konami Web site.) It is a sight to behold and features a new, harder-edged Raiden decimating a squad of biomechanical Metal Gear cyborgs with a katana and some gravity-defying acrobatics.

Given its visually spectacular nature, the trailer drew quite a crowd. In less than two hours, late-comers standing to watch it had overrun to the aisles, effectively choking off a busy intersection at the front of the Los Angeles Convention Center's South Hall. Eventually the gawking mob stretched all the way in front of the neighboring N-Gage booth, where attendance was light.

Metal Gear Solid 4

While this isn't the extended trailer, it does feature much of the same eye-popping footage.

While Metal Gear was the main attraction at the Konami booth, it wasn't exactly omnipresent. Beyond trailers for MGS 4 and the PlayStation Portable Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops, the series was harder to find in the booth than Solid Snake in a cardboard box. Also appearing solely in trailer form were Coded Arms: Assault on the PlayStation 3, the company's new Elebits and GoPets titles, Silent Hill Origins on the PSP, and Yu-Gi-Oh Online.

It wasn't all trailers, however. A prominent Dance Dance Revolution-themed stand let players try their feet at the new DDR console and arcade games there, or attendees could have a go at the latest Guitar Freaks and Beatmania arcade games.

The publisher had an assortment of playable games on display, as well. Xiaolin Showdown and the Marvel Trading Card Game were available for hands-on time on multiple systems, as were the PlayStation 2 and Nintendo DS versions of the latest Winning Eleven Pro Evolution Soccer.

On the portable tip, Konami showed Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin and Lunar Knights for the DS. The company had a full slate of PSP offerings, including Death Jr.: Root of Evil, Coded Arms: Contagion, Online Chess Kingdoms, Steel Horizon, Rengoku 2, Gradius Collection, Brooktown High: Senior Year, and Bomberman Land. The explosive protagonist is also set to appear on the Xbox 360 with Bomberman: Act Zero.

74 Comments

  • conkertheduke88

    Posted Apr 12, 2007 8:20 pm PT

    this game may come out for 360 since it is third person

  • gaming_god_tom

    Posted Dec 23, 2006 6:10 pm PT

    brag a tear to my eye

  • tareq_bushnaq

    Posted Oct 10, 2006 1:38 pm PT

    wow i lol

  • lord-azrael

    Posted Sep 10, 2006 7:19 am PT

    MGS4 is the only truely great looking games for PS3,and maybe FFXIII

  • ludacriss

    Posted Aug 28, 2006 5:05 am PT

    A must have game.

  • jakeboudville

    Posted Aug 25, 2006 5:30 am PT

    sweet!!

  • eatpepsi

    Posted May 23, 2006 9:28 pm PT

    when i click on the images ... it takes me to some game called LUNAR ! please fix it !

  • Doolum

    Posted May 21, 2006 12:49 am PT

    MGS4 playable at TGS06....wait until this news hits the headlines

  • yboucher

    Posted May 18, 2006 6:47 pm PT

    FYI, N-Gage is a new open platform being developed by Nokia. It's not "the" N-Gage phone itself anymore. You might be laughing now, but you won't when you'll see it... it's basically like a mobile Xbox Live.

  • comthitnuong

    Posted May 17, 2006 5:02 pm PT

    nice

  • roy_008

    Posted May 16, 2006 9:38 pm PT

    This game is one of the best at the show and I'm looking forward for this game once it is released even if I don't have a PS3 yet when that time comes.

  • Tamz

    Posted May 16, 2006 5:55 am PT

    Nothing less than a masterpeice from Kojima

  • mgsseries4life

    Posted May 15, 2006 6:17 pm PT

    come on it cant be the only reason, I'm gonna buy a PS3 as soon as MGS4 comes out but it's not the only reason im getting it. The PS3 is a beautiful peice of machine man. so pwerful, many features and good games!! my God cant wait till MGS4 comes out.

  • darkshad0w1

    Posted May 12, 2006 9:35 pm PT

    you can tell it is real time...no matter how close they will get to making real-time rendering look like pre-rendered....there is noticable nuances...in the characters textures, and the world too for that matter.....but GOD IT LOOKS SWEET....it could be the only reason I am getting a ps3

  • Lanowar

    Posted May 11, 2006 4:28 pm PT

    Is any one else here annoyed that te 15 minute tralier is well streaming on Microsoft. Give us Quicktime that way I don't get frustrated by it paushing every 5 seconds and the sound still carrying on!

  • j1x1

    Posted May 11, 2006 1:57 pm PT

    Yay

  • filodelallata

    Posted May 11, 2006 12:21 pm PT

    go on MR. Koyima!

  • rety5

    Posted May 11, 2006 12:21 pm PT

    oh wow I have seen the trailer! Worth the crowd!

  • Mp5slipknot

    Posted May 11, 2006 11:59 am PT

    A shame the damn thing is so big and thus hard to watch. Upload different rez sizes Kojima!!

  • skyvader

    Posted May 11, 2006 11:07 am PT

    Was that supposed to be real time? It didn't look like it. Looked more like updated MGS2 type cinimatic footage. The quality was to grainy but lets hope it plays better than it looks.

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