Metal Gear Ac!d (PlayStation Portable)
Publisher: Konami Developer: Konami Genre: Card/Strategy Release: March
Ah, the Metal Gear series. With Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater coming out,
that would have been enough... but, we get yet another sweet surprise from our buddies at Konami on the 11th of
May.
Another
new MGS game was announced for Sony’s upcoming PSP handheld console. A project that is now being called “Metal
Gear: Acid” is now officially off the ground. However, the guys at the Sony E3 booth couldn't even tell us if it was
going to be a new game, or simply a port of an old one! Then Kojima himself refused to answer any questions!
Some people began to speculate things, and you know how dangerous
that can get! So, they made a small press release. All they could tell us in that release is that the game would "redefine
handheld action gaming" and that the man himself, Hideo Kojima, is indeed working on it. More info will be released "at a
later date", they say.
From what we could see the game looked more linear and less
free roaming than previous MG games. It almost looked like an RPG of sorts during certain times, then at others it was displaying
it’s more traditional action/stealth roots. Is it perhaps a combination of the two? I guess we'll have to see "at a
later date." Then, gee. Game developers are so secretive these days.
Update:
Our recent
RPG-like speculations are officially denied. Metal Gear Ac!d’s gameplay will revolve around card-based action. So, in
order to advance through certain levels and/or doors etc. you will have to make plays based on cards. However we’re
still unsure if this feature will be based on statistics or the luck of a card draw... nah we’ll just call it an RPG.
Added by: Michael Figueredo
Preview Written by: Chris "CBN" Nimmo
