20th Anniversary Party
Celebrating 20 years of Metal Gear that began on 7th July 1987, the event hosted to many famous people and featured alot of the rare collectables found many collectors possesions including mine. It featured posters, figures, books, limited edition premiums and new items. and scattered about where TV's of Trailers of all the Metal Gear Saga. So before the conference began the press got the chance to look at the merchendice and chat amongst themselves.
Here are some images of the Older items:
The Press conference began with Kojima greeting the guests that had attended this event and explained a little about the Metal Gear Saga so far. Going from Metal Gear to Metal Gear Solid 3, Kojima and his colleagues go into detail about the their challaneges with the graphical restictions of the system, the response from trailers especially those at E3 in La and the roll out results for games in all the teritories from Japan, America and eventually Europe...
Then came the first big announcement for: Metal Gear Solid 2 : Digital Graphic Novel via a short 2 minute trailer it appears to be no different to the DGN for Metal Gear, but one big diffence was that this version features Voice Acting. After the trailer was shown it was explained that this was due to sucessful compression which was achieved while creating Metal Gear Portable Ops.
Now on to the meat you've all been waiting for! it was finally time to reveal some new Metal Gear Solid 4 information he confirmed 2 voice actors, Tsukamoto (Apparently a famous Actor) will play Vamp.
Then their was a video message from an actress called "Mari Natsuki", she revealed that she would be playing the voice of Eva from Metal Gear Solid 3! For those who don't know "Misa Watanabe" did the original role so expect a deeper more vixen esk voice. For those MGS fact finders, Eva would be 80 in Metal Gear Solid 4, I have to say she looks good for her age...
Moving on now Kojima dims the lights and finally the 15 minute demostation seen at Tokyo Press conference was shown again
(See news post for full facts) Anyway enjoy the full video below curtisy of Gametrailers.com
Moving on now to the producer of MGO, Mr. Matsuha, takes the stage and demonstrates the new Metal Gear Online, which will be playable for up to 16 people, the demo showed a 6 vs 6, using a system called SOKKU system. It allows you to more clearly get information about your ally characters. This system allows you to see the position of your allies, even through walls. They show up as blue figures. You can even see them when they're in the cardboard box. but not your opponents. If you kill an enemy, you can tap into their information system. You're then able to see the enemies -- if you're the blue team, the enemies show up as red. He then annonces their wil be a Playstation Network BETA! which will run from August 20th til September 3rd. They will accept applications from July 24th till August 6th. BUT it's closed beta, limited to 3,000 people. Check the Kojima Productions website for more info.
Finally was a brief announcement that their will be new mobile version released called Metal Gear Solid : Mobile, they didn't supply much information only that it would come initially on Limited Edtion Sony Ericsson Mobile. The available images surgest a cut down or possibly remade Metal Gear Solid 3.
I hope you enjoyed the presentation...
New Merchendice
The 20th Anniversary Premium Package
Containing all the cannon games on black coloured disks, the package comes with a new Metal Gear Saga DVD, the Premium Version of Portable ops, ALL the books found in the seperate versions and a letter signed by Kojima. I'll confirm if its real of print when I get mine and it's
All complete in a silver box complete with a metal plate, not sure if this is the LE Serial number location as yet.
The 20th Anniversary Game Packages
All coming in DVD sized sleeves including Metal Gear Solid, they feature new artwork fronts and brand new limited edition booklets (Seen better above) The price point of 1,500 - 2,800 yen is very attractive to.
Medicom Real Action Heroes
Roughly 12 inches high, these posisible high quality figures, which have been personally created in co-opertation with Yoji Shinkawa of Solid Snake and Raiden, both have movable / removable parts.
Currently their is no news on production but an October release is the current official statement.
Heavy Guage - High Detail (HD) Figures
Fixed pose figures designed by Heavy Guage, the people behind the Trading Figures and Resin sets (Raiden, Jehuty & Anubis) Like the RAH's figures they have been sculpted to a very high standard. Current news on production is unknown.
Medicom Kubricks
An all new set of minature Lego like figures from across the Metal Gear Saga all of which come with with a gun or a sword or 2...
Current news on production is unknown.
