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.

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MGS4GC?

[N0decam]

Could be good, but it would be nice if they produced a new story every now and then, instead of rehashing the same game years later on every platform...

Nintendo, the great recycler

[jvmatthe]

Nintendo has figured out that if you flog your old wares in new forms every few years, you can maintain a steady stream of income. Let's recap:

• 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?

Re:Nintendo, the great recycler

[Guppy06]

"Game & Watch Gallery series brings their 1980s Game & Watch devices to the GameBoy and then GameBoy Color and then GameBoy Advance."

Ignoring all the information and history put into the carts as well as the modern touch-ups (something Squaresoft only recently figured out how to do), consider all the gamers that never lived in the 1980's, let alone heard of the phrase "Game & Watch."

The keychains you mention weren't produced by Nintendo. The manufacturer licensed the games and the Game Boy Pocket image.

"E-Reader cards with rehashed NES games."

Little more than a perk on top of the device's main focus on more innovative uses, such as Pokemon-e, Animal Crossing-e and Mario Party-e. Note the way NOA waited until they were able to get the link cable to work with the e-Reader before releasing it, a feature none of the NES re-releases make use of.

And how much income can they be making when the games are only $5.00 a pop?

"SNES games reworked for the GBA, including a remake of SNES Zelda."

Games that have been out of publication for a decade or so. The Zelda franchise is 17 years old and A Link to the Past itself is 12.

"Port of Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time as a bonus for GameCube Zelda preorders"

A freebie gimmick originally intended to boost pre-sales of Wind Waker, now used as a freebie gimmick to sell consoles and Nintendo Power subscriptions. It's difficult to say that Nintendo is making any money on this game directly.

"Remake of Resident Evil for GameCube using all new graphics and some new features."

Something to go along with Resident Evil 0 without requiring gamers to go out and buy a competing console. At any rate, you seem to beconfusing Nintendo with Capcom. They're not the same thing, despite recent "megaton" rumors.

Great, but...

[aleonard]

This is great news! It'll be great to see if the Cube can truly compete with the PS2. However...

The original Metal Gear Solid on PlayStation, for all its (now) primitivity, has a certain beauty of its own. Back then, we truly appreciated the things it held -- The beauty of the snow, the motion blur, the impressive power of Rex. In its primitive (again, compared to now) graphics lie a certain beauty, and I hope the new game doesn't have a sterile feel like some rehashes do. Do not simply make the game with new graphics - Make the graphics fit the game and be a logical offshoot from the old, don't go changing things. I still want the HIND fight to be immersive, I still want the Comm Tower to take place at that central angle, and I still want the same basic feel to everything.

I hope it will be worthy of the name.

Re:Great, but...

[sebi]

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.

Yay!

[shivianzealot]

I can't wait to see a cell shaded solid snake!

Now if only

[notque]

We can get a gamecube verison of Metal Gear!

*drool*

Original story, modern graphics...

[American AC in Paris]

Excellent! I'll finally be able to see the phrase "UH-OH! THE TRUCK HAVE STARTED TO MOVE!" lovingly rendered in beautiful, beautiful 3D...

Hoody hoo!

[Reverend Raven]

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.