Metal Gear Solid: Rising and Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker Details - 17th June 2010 - MGS Rising, MGS4 and Snatcher analysis

All content on this page is subject to change throughout 2010 as more details become available. This page details all the story events from Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater to Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, beware of spoilers.





Release Details

Metal Gear Solid: Rising
System/s: Playstation 3, X-Box 360 and Windows PC
Release Dates: To be announced


Gameplay

"Lightning Bolt Action" More analysis below
Metal Gear Solid: Rising E3 Trailer - giant bomb


Robotic enemy starring in Metal Gear Solid: Rising This robot seems to be an official Patriot robotic soldier as opposed to the PMC soldiers that Raiden was killing later in the trailer

Familar foot-tech used in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, Vamp and the FROGS used this wall-crawling tech. Whether these guys will be able to walk up buildings and jump to great heights is a completely different story.

The robot/cyborg enemy sporting the same white blood that Cyborg Ninja Raiden has in MGS4. With the way Raiden explained how Dr. Madnar saved his life this enemy must have been sent by the Patriots and not Dr. Madnar UNLESS this area is where Raiden will find Dr. Madnar prior to becoming a true cyborg-ninja.

Known Storyline Facts

MGS: Rising is set inbetween Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty and Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. Raiden will attempt to rescue Sunny Gurlokovich from The Patriots (A.I. norms network) and retrieve the body of Big Boss for EVA (Big Momma). He will be captured and experimented on with the latest in Cyborg Ninja technology. Big Momma's PMC group will then rescue Raiden and Dr. Madnar (of Metal Gear 1 and Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake fame) will save his life.

Solid Snake will have started aging at a faster rate, at this point he may look like Solidus Snake in appearence

Revolver Ocelot will have removed Liquid Snake's arm and replaced it with a cybernetic arm. He will have begun his plan of building his PMC army and fooled the Patriots that Liquid Snake is control so that he can carry out his plan of reviving Big Boss and ending the Patriots.

E3 2010 Konami Press Conference confirmation

At the Konami Press Conference it was confirmed that Rising is set inbetween MGS2 and MGS4. So you can expect to see Raiden meeting Big Momma (EVA) to set up the deal about Big Boss (actually Solidus Snake)'s body and Sunny. The Patriots will capture him and turn it into the Snatcher Ninja you see in the trailer. Later meeting Dr. Madnar who presumably will turn him into the MGS4 Cyborg-ninja.

What is a Snatcher?

In 1988 Hideo Kojima created a Cyber-punk adventure game called Snatcher. In it featured "bioroid" snatchers that would kill and take the place of humans in society. If we theoretically combine the Metal Gear Solid and Snatcher universe we can see the origins of the Snatcher through Raiden. It is important to note that in Snatcher a Dr Madnar or the same name from the Metal Gear games created the snatchers. There's also a walking, talking Metal Gear Mk. II in that game also.


This body clearly isn't the same Cyborg Ninja version of Raiden that is in Metal Gear Solid 4. This may be a prototype "Snatcher" a type of bioroid that the Patriots could be developing. Hints at that include the Right eye that is covered up could be covering a glowing red eye. (NOTE: As of E3 2010, his left eye was glowing red in the trailer after absorbing his robotic enemy's power supply) Another characteristic of a Snatcher is the two circle shaped pieces of metal above the eye. Dr Madnar may be the one responisible for changing Raiden from a Snatcher to a true Cyborg Ninja. He them may have gone on the perfect Snatchers himself, leading to the events of the game Snatcher.

Speculation

Voice Actors

Raiden - Quinton Flynn/Kenyu Horiuchi (Unconfirmed)
Big Momma - Lee Meriwether/Mari Natsuki (Unconfirmed)
Sunny Gurlukovich - Christina Puccelli/Kikuko Inoue (Unconfirmed)



This picture shows Raiden in his normal Cyborg Ninja body from MGS4, atop of Beauty and the Beast Unit member, Crying Wolf. This battle could take place before or during MGS4. If it took place before then maybe Liquid Ocelot took the unit from the Patriots.

Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker Archive



Release Details

Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker
System/s: Playstation Portable
Release Dates
(DELAYED) Japan: April 28th, 2010 U.S.A.: June 8th, 2010 Europe: June 17th, 2010 UK June 18th, 2010

Giant Bomb Quick Look - Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker (Some story-line details are subjective. Do not view them as fact) Potential Spoilers- Play by Brad Shoemaker and commentated on by Vinny Caravella

Bundles/Deals



Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker - Limited Edition
Price - 26,980 yen - $296 - £182
Contents - A camo-paint-coloured PSP-3000, Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker (UMD), strap, cleaning cloth and a soft pouch.



Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker - Deluxe Edition
Price - 36,980 yen - $405 - £250
Contents - A camo-paint-coloured PSP-3000, Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker (UMD), strap, cleaning cloth, a leather pouch, dog tags, a booklet and a serial numbered PSP-stand.



GameStop Big Boss Bundle



Known Storyline Facts

MGS: Peace Walker is set in 1974, ten years after Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, four years after Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops and twenty-one years before Metal Gear 1 (Not Metal Gear Solid 1). At this point in time Zero and Dr. Clark (Paramedic) have completed the Les Enfants Terrible project. Solid Snake, Liquid Snake and Solidus Snake are two years old (Solid and Liquid are slightly older than Solidus). Because of the Les Enfants Terrible project, Big Boss (Naked Snake) has abandoned the Patriots. EVA has done the same, Revolver Ocelot continues taking orders from Zero in order to relay the information to Big Boss. Sigint (The DARPA Chief) is still loyal to Zero.

At the beginning of the game, Naked Snake is still correcting people into calling him Snake instead of Big Boss, but this is the game in which he will accept his title and begin referring to himself as Big Boss. The Mercenary group he now leads will become the founders of the Outer Heaven nation he commands in Metal Gear 1 (in which you the play, as a rookie Solid Snake, infriltrates).

Big Boss is in Costa Rica with his mercenary group "Militaires Sans Frontières" (Soldiers Without Borders). his second-in-command, Kazuhira Miller is the same person who will eventually become known as Master Miller in Metal Gear 2 and Metal Gear Solid 1.

They have been hired to defend Costa Rica against an "unknown military force" sponsered by the U.S.A's C.I.A.

The new characters in this game include - Huey (Emmerich - Unconfirmed), Huey is either Otacon's father, who will eventually drown himself after finding out that his second wife is having an affair with Otacon, or Otacon's grandfather, who was friends with Grannin, and influenced his Metal Gear REX designs. Huey is wheelchair-bound after being pushed down a flight of stairs by Coldman. Ramon Galvez Mena is the man who convinces Naked Snake to defend Costa Rica, sporting a robotic hand and suspicious motives, he will likely play an important part in the upcoming story. He teaches Paz Ortega Andrade, a young girl who studies at the University of Peace. The rest of the new characters have no information on them yet other than their voice actors.

The Shagohod will be making its return in an upgraded form, as seen at the Toyko Game Show 2009 trailer.

Voice Actors

Naked Snake/Big Boss - Akio Ohtsuka/David Hayter
Kazuhira Miller - Tomokazu Sugita/Robin Atkin Downes
Ramon Galvez Mena - Hochu Otsuka/Steve Blum
Paz Ortega Andrade - Nana Mizuki/Tara Strong
Huey - Hideyuki Tanaka/Christopher Randolph
Coldman - Mugihito/H. Richard Greene
Amanda Valenciano Libre - Romi Park/Grey Delisle
Chico - Kikuko Inoue/Antony Del Rio
Strangelove - Yumi Kikuchi/Vanessa Marshall
Cecile Cosina Caminades - Yu Kobayashi/Catherine Taber

Gameplay

"Tactical Stealth Espionage" with a focus on co-operative play.
There will be many versions of Naked Snake to choose from, each with their of style of play. "Naked" Snake is comparable to Rambo, "Battle" Snake is a heavy weapons class character, an all round character who is said to play closest to Metal Gear Solid 3's version of Naked Snake and more.

This will be the first true Metal Gear Solid on the Playstation Portable, as opposed to the card series Ac!d and MGS: Portable Ops.

MSF HQ "Mother Base" - Captured soldiers that have been extracted will arrive here. All theses soldiers have different facial features. You can capture 300 in total and they each develop new skills. You more you capture the more weapons and items are developed.

vs. mode - 3 on 3 Deathmatch (will likely use the Snake class system), more to be announced

Speculation

There have been hints towards some revealing information about The Boss that even Snake doesn't know.
The C.I.A. sponsered armed group Snake will be going against may have been created and funded by Zero and his half of the Philosopher's Legacy.