Friday, April 18, 2008

Kojima Jnr disappointed with Metal Gear Solid 4

According to an article on Kotaku, Kijima and the team over estimated the capabilities of the PS3 in particularly the cell. Mmm, this doesn't sound good at all, while he admits the game is a step forward, he barely disguises his disappointment. While not overtly critical of the PS3 this has to come as a big blow to fans of the console and in particularly fans of the Metal Gear series, who have been waiting with baited breath for the next incarnation.

I'm sure Sony who have set the hype machine in motion with MGS4 bundled consoles won't be too happy with his comments. I fully expect gamers to still pick this title up by the millions but one can't help feel that the winds have been taken from the sails of Sony's much vaunted system seller.


Some of his comments:

"Game-wise, it's pretty close to the original vision: you sneak into the battlefield and can choose whether to do a stealth game or interfere with the battle more directly. But the graphic, side things like motion-blending and the size of the map, totally was not accomplished to my original vision - to my satisfaction."

"When we first showed the game engine at TGS, the staff were really proud and happy. PS3 was a dream machine, y'know, and we were going to work on this and that - and we had so many ideas. But when we actually started developing the game, we realized there were a lot of restrictions and so it turned out how you see it today. The original vision was to go ten steps further, the reality was just one step, which isn't to say we didn't progress."

I remember saying three years ago that we wanted to create something revolutionary, but in reality we couldn't really do that because of the CPU. We're using the Cell engine to its limit., actually. Please don't get me wrong, I'm not criticizing the PS3 machine, it's just that we weren't really aware of what the full-spec PS3 offered - we were creating something we couldn't entirely see."

Ouch! There's no other way to spin this.

-RE: Gamer

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