As part of celebrations for the franchise’s twentieth anniversary, series creator Hideo Kojima has unveiled a number of new
Metal Gear titles at a press event at the newly opened Ritz Carlton Hotel in Tokyo.
Following in the wake of the well received online options in
Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence, Kojima announced a new PlayStation 3 exclusive title named
Metal Gear Online. The game will use the same graphics engine as
Metal Gear Solid 4 and is described as a “strategic multiplayer experience”.
The game will feature playable characters and environments from
Metal Gear Solid 4, which is now implied to be single player only. A closed beta test program for
Metal Gear Online will begin this August in Japan for 3,000 people.
Also newly announced, although previously hinted at, is
Metal Gear Solid Portable Ops Plus (
MPO+) for the PSP. This new title is also multiplayer focused, with new stages and new characters taken from
Metal Gear Solid 4, including Raiden and “Old Snake”. The game will include both Ad-Hoc and infrastructure based wireless play, as well as a new single player mode named Infinity Mission. The game is due for release next year.
The evening also included a fifteen minute walkthrough of
Metal Gear Solid 4, with a video of the presentation available at
Kojima Production’s official website and as a free PlayStation Store download later this week.
Also announced at the event was
Metal Gear Solid Mobile for mobile phones and
Metal Gear Solid 2: Digital Graphic Novel for PSP – although neither title were confirmed for release outside of Japan.
