Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker - Out Now !

[Shin-Ra]

Hideo Kojima Reads the Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker Script
Plus, the Metal Gear creator details his game design process.

The latest installment of Kojima Productions' regular podcast has a special treat for Metal Gear fanatics. Hideo Kojima and his staff recently conducted a mock reading of the Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker script, and they're letting us hear a sampling of it! That's right, we get to hear Kojima himself act out a few sequences from his game!

Worried about spoilers? Then you obviously weren't paying attention when Kojima Productions teased Peace Walker and Rizing's announcements in late May with a highly censored interview in Famitsu. The podcast reading is also censored, with beeps blocking out a few key names.

You can download the podcast for yourself here. The reading begins at the 11:20 mark and run through 16:05.

I'm not going to try to figure out what's being said during the script reading, but here's a summary of what's said before as Kojima, speaking with Raging Raven voice actress Yumi Kikuchi, describes the basic development process.

Kojima starts by explaining that one difference between making a movie and making a game is that the initial "script" for a game is not necessarily too detailed. They have to build up the script as they try out things with gameplay, or they'd end up just making a story. The E3 trailer for Peace Walker was made at this point in the game's development progress.

After they've advanced to a certain point with the game's stage creation and tests, they create something called a "Scriptment." This document includes everything about the game, from start to finish -- the dialogue for the story, the gameplay elements, item information, and so forth. Using this script, the team conducts tests on the game in order to fix things like memory issues and bugs, and also makes small adjustments to the story.

The next development step involves pulling out all the drama areas of the Scriptment to get a script. A few members of the game's staff are asked to read this script and share their opinion with Kojima, who looks at the feedback and makes fixes based off it. Next, they have members from outside the team, but within Kojima Productions, read the script. Following this, they have people outside Kojima Productions read the script. This step is dangerous, says Kojima, noting recent cases of movie scripts being leaked onto the internet.

Once the script has been fixed through this process, they have the game's development staff gather to act out the roles. This is another method of polishing the script, as they can determine if words need to be changed around to make things easier to understand or easier to say.

What you're hearing in this podcast is this phase of the polishing process -- the staff gathering to act out the parts.

The readers consist of everyone from designers, to writers, to Kojima's secretary, to bigger names like Kojima himself and Shuyo Murata.

Kojima asks that listeners send in comments about who they want to actually play the roles in the final game. Anyone is okay, including stars. Of course, Snake's voice actor is already set.

As you might have probably guessed by the fact that they're already in the final polishing phase of the script, Peace Walker is clearly far along in development. The staff is currently in the casting phase, says Kojima in the podcast, and will soon be bringing voice actors into the studio to start recording.

Perhaps Kojima himself will be among them.

^ The script reading session at Kojima Productions.

[Toxa]

Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker co-op details

The focus of the Famitsu update is on the game's multiplayer cooperative component. This area of the game allows for two to four players to team up to clear missions.

Players will have to work together in a variety of ways for this area of the game. Screenshots show one player using the other player as a step to reach a higher platform. Another screen shows one player holding up a closing door while the other player runs inside.

Players can also save their allies. In one screen, we see one player reviving another player through CPR. Will there be mouth to mouth as well?

Kojima and crew have come up with some unique systems to facilitate multiplayer play. If you make your character put his hand on the back of another player's character, the two characters will be connected. When one moves, the other will follow automatically.

Some screens show a mysterious red ring surrounding two characters. While Famitsu doesn't say for sure, it seems that when these rings are overlapping, the two characters can share weapons and equipment.

Obviously, the multiplayer support suggests the strong possibility for strategic play. A few examples in Famitsu show players teaming up with multiple types of guns, allowing for long distance and close-range fire. One screen shows one character grabbing an enemy from behind after the enemy had been alerted to the other player approaching from the front.

[Toxa]

http://www.metalgearsolid.be/a_09_08...ration_01.html

http://www.metalgearsolid.be/a_09_08...ration_02.html

[Toxa]

http://www.gamekyo.com/videofr15488_...-et-video.html

[THE_JUDGE]

and if this tops that we are in for a real treat. I cant believe how well Kojima can take the concepts of MGS and make them on the PSP. PO was the reason I bought a PSP and this new game will be a reason to keep it!

[Shin-Ra]

Did you rike it?

Wowza. Fresh ideas and it looks like it'll play great single-player co-op too.





















Hideo Kojima Talks Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker At GamesCom 2009

Even if he's reading off a teleprompter, I'm impressed.

[Toxa]

better quality trailer

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/gc-09-mgs-peace/54464

[Shin-Ra]

The retro menu graphics are cute.

[AranhaHunter]

I'm hoping this has a good SP campaign.

[THE_JUDGE]

Originally Posted by AranhaHunter

I'm hoping this has a good SP campaign.

MGS titles always do so Im not really worried. I just hope they dont focus too much on MP. I have no one else to play this with if thats the case.

[Shin-Ra]

X-PLAY Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker Preview

Just a recap of what's released to-date.

[Shin-Ra]

Lucky.

Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker Demo To Be Distributed at TGS
Bring your PSP with you to the biggest gaming event in Japan.

Metal Gear Solid studio Kojima Productions opened a special page today for the Tokyo Game Show. There isn't much there at present, save for one world shattering announcement.

According to the page, the Konami booth will offer a downloadable demo of Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker. Those who bring their PSP with them will be able to download a demo for the long train ride home.

This should definitely beat waiting in line to sample the game in a noise convention center. Of course, the game will also be playable on the show floor, according to Konami's own TGS special site, also opened today. In addition to demo units, Konami will show video footage (you can't have a TGS without a new Metal Gear trailer, can you?) and a daily stage event.

More details will be announced on the 17th. TGS kicks off on the 24th for press, with the public gaining access on the 26th and 27th.

[Toxa]

scan

http://i36.tinypic.com/2923bsk.jpg

[caliblue15]

MGS PW DEMO!!!!!!!

Today at Tokyo Game Show Konami shared the Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker demo with the world. And now we're sharing the demo with you. That's right, you can download the demo in this article. Just grab the file below. Here are the requirements:

* You need Firmware 6.0 on the PSP
* Download and unzip the file below.
* Install the file by going into USB Mode on the PSP.
* On your computer go to the PSP folder, then the game folder, then drop "NPJH90063" into that folder.

http://pspmedia.ign.com/psp/binary/a.../NPJH90063.zip

[Marine Mike]

Thanks for that Caliblue! I'll be trying it out next Thursday!

[caliblue15]

Originally Posted by Marine Mike

Thanks for that Caliblue! I'll be trying it out next Thursday!

IT's out RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!

[Marine Mike]

Originally Posted by caliblue15

IT's out RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!

But my PSP Go isn't.

[caliblue15]

Originally Posted by Marine Mike

But my PSP Go isn't.

lol

[Shin-Ra]

NO WAY!? *downloads immediately*

Got some screens from the official site too:

http://www.konami.jp/mgs_pw/en/

[caliblue15]

Originally Posted by Shin-Ra

NO WAY!? *downloads immediately*

Got some screens from the official site too:

Don't have custom firmware?... trying to figure out how to play it... don't want to revert to OFW for just this..