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New Media Experience Coming to PSP
The Guardian Gamesblog discusses the announcement that a Metal Gear Solid digital comic is in the works for the PSP. There's also going to be a title called 'The Silent Hill Experience', which will be a sort of guide to the series. From the post: "Designed to offer a comprehensive guide to all things Silent Hill, The Silent Hill Experience combines a number of media formats to give a compelling overview of the horror series. Using an intuitive 3D interface, users can view all-new Silent Hill digital interactive comics, listen to music from the four games in the series, and watch exclusive video content. The Silent Hill Experience also features an interview with Christophe Gans, the Director of the highly anticipated Silent Hill movie, starring Radha Mitchell and Sean Bean." Nice that they're finally doing something defining with the console.
Oh, so it will contain more animation than the actual games then.
The games just have two pictures of heads talking back and forth for hours on end...
I think occasionally you get a brief interactive sequence between radio conversations, but they're trying to reduce that since players found it too distracting.
The concept of a MGS game with absolutely no interaction (beyond the camera) just seems to fit so well with the existing games - they're already mostly cutscenes already, simplifying the game to pure cutscene is just a stroke of genius!
Or was that "invented by someone who had a stroke", I can't remember.