Metal Gear Solid: Rising Box Art, Details – Solid Snake MIA

Here is the leaked box art for Metal Gear Solid: Rising – a game that is meant to arrive sometime this year. It first cropped up on Xbox Live Marketplace reportedly, but was soon pulled.

The game will put the player in the boots of Raiden, the protagonist from Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty. And guess what else? It’s coming to the PC! This will be the first game since MGS 2 to do so.

In related news: Snake? Snake! SNAAAKKEE! That’s a famous line from Metal Gear Solid if you didn’t know. Why I put it there is that Metal Gear Solid: Rising may very well not feature the famous hero from previous games.

David Hayter, who gives the character his gruff raspy voice in the English version of the games since MGS, said that he hasn’t yet been contacted to do any voice work in the game.

"I don't know if I'm doing Metal Gear Rising. Nobody's contacted me about it, so I have no idea. They usually call me once the Japanese game is done and they're starting to get into the English translation. So we're not completely done, but it's on its way by the time they get in touch with me."

The game is said to be shown at E3, with more details to come.

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Voice Of Solid Snake Hasn't Been Contacted For 'Metal Gear Solid Rising' [MTV Multiplayer]

MGSR Box Art [CVG]

Metal Gear Solid: Rising Box Art, Details – Solid Snake MIA

Classic Games Collecting: Splinter Cell Trilogy and Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance

             

The other day my family was out at Makro in Cape Town, and my mom came across Aliens versus Predator – the one from 1999 – for R99,99. And she didn’t pick it up for me either, which was upsetting.

You all know by now if you bother frequenting this blog regularly that I am a big classic games lover, and I would have liked to have added this to my collection of classics. It’s been years since I played AvP Classic.

Anyway, this weekend I went to Tyger Valley Centre and popped in at Musica, where I saw something that I hadn’t seen there months earlier when I last visited to do some classic game collecting. It was Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Trilogy, which has Splinter Cell, Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow, and Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory.  A three in one pack, originally released a few years ago, which today sold for R99.

*Yoink!*

Then I went over to CNA and had a look at what they had to offer. They had some pretty good stuff. I was impressed by some of the classics they had on offer. But I eventually settled for Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance – a classic that I haven’t seen sold in stores for years, and one that I’ve wanted to get a hold of for years as well.

I suppose the next time I’ll collecting will be next month. I all ready have my eye on Diablo II and the Lord of Destruction expansion, or else it would have to be StarCraft along with the Brood Wars expansion. I haven’t played either for years. I’ve played them, but haven’t actually owned them if you know what I mean. I played Diablo II years ago at a friend’s house.

Classic Games Collecting: Splinter Cell Trilogy and Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance

Metal Gear Solid: Rising Coming to the PC

This is news. I'm not a huge fan of MGS, but I do like PC gaming, and lately it's been said that Metal Gear Solid: Rising will arrive on the PC as well as Xbox 360, instead of just being a Sony exclusive and being on PS3.

I think it's the best way to go in the recession we're currently in. You can't let Sony have all the fun, and the rest beg for scraps. You'll make more sales anyway if you cater to multiple consoles. It just makes sense.

Metal Gear Solid: Rising, also called MGS 5, will feature Raiden, who I originally thought was a woman, instead of Solid Snake (or Old Snake). The series' former tagline, "Tactical Espionage Action" or TEA, has been replaced by "Lightning Bolt Action" or LBA, to fit the new protagonist, Raiden; the word Raiden is Japanese for "Thunder and Lighting". Raiden is also the name of a character in the Mortal Kombat series.

Perhaps I'll get into MGS again now that it's coming to PC. The last time MGS ever made it to the PC, officially anyway, was when they made a port of Metal Gear Solid 2, which was ages ago. The last time I played a MGS game, was when I picked up Metal Gear Solid (1) for the PC- also a port.

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Metal Gear Solid: Rising

Metal Gear Solid: Rising Coming to the PC