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Metal Gear Solid for GameCube Announced
Xs writes "GameSpot.com has confirmed the new Metal Gear Solid title for GameCube titled, Metal Gear Solid: Twin Snakes. The game sports the original MGS plot, but with totally revamped graphics. Plus, the game is being supervised by both Hideo Kojima and Shigeru Miyamoto! Sounds pretty awesome - hopefully they will add more than just the upgraded graphics." This was one of the best games around back when the Playstation was all the rage. With the resources of the GameCube thrown at this game, it could be gorgeous to behold.
- Game & Watch Gallery series brings their 1980s Game & Watch devices to the GameBoy and then GameBoy Color and then GameBoy Advance. Further, you can get keychain versions of the same games (although they may have discontinued them now).
- E-Reader cards with rehashed NES games.
- SNES games reworked for the GBA, including a remake of SNES Zelda.
- Port of Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time as a bonus for GameCube Zelda preorders
- Remake of Resident Evil for GameCube using all new graphics and some new features.
- Rereleases of Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil 3 for the GameCube at the outrageous price of $40 each. Very little, if anything, updated since the DreamCast versions of these games.
Now, here we go with a remake of Metal Gear Solid...what next? Final Fantasy VII for the GameCube too?Curmudgeon Gamer: Not happy
My opinion is that when it comes down to oldschool, the emulation is where it's at. GC Zelda and Metroid releases have added little to the series. However, if anything is really helping GC, it's the GBA's stellar success.
Of course, we all know that Konami has weaseled out of exclusivity. My friend has a copy of MGS2:Substance that says "Only on X-Box", and I have a copy of the PS2 Substance.
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Excellent excellent. Hopefully this was in some way inspired by my own drive to get MGS remade for the PS2 (didn't see the petition? Oh well, like those things work anyways). But is just confirmation, this was talked about several months ago. I defy anyone to name me one game that had a deeper plot and characterization than Metal Gear Solid. And if anyone says Final Fantasy VII or Zelda: Ocarina of Time so help me I'll leap across the Internet and strangle you.
Seriously, MGS was such a good example of how games can be more cinematic and still be good games. The story was interesting and ever-changing, the characters were well developed and beautifully executed, the script and translation was good, and the voice acting was beyond anything ever seen in a game prior (many props to Mr. David Hayter). I honestly believe that Metal Gear Solid is the single greatest console game of all time (on the level of story and characterization).
Schweet. I don't care if there are any extras, although they would be nice. Just more sneaking, more cardboard boxes and more good Snake-isms.
--Reverend Raven
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According to the article the port will be done by developer Silicon Knights. Their first project was the excellent 'Eternal Darkness', a third person adventure/horror game. That game felt anything but sterile. I never played any of the Metal Gear Solid games, lacking the required consoles (or computers), but as far as I know they were cinematic third person adventures. One of the most impressive facts about Eternal Darkness was the movie like camera. I don't doubt that, with their expertise, the GameCube version will ooze atmosphere.
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