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Genre: Action
System(s): PSP
ESRB: Unknown
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Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops is an upcoming stealth-based game being published by Konami and developed through Kojima Productions for the PlayStation Portable. During an interview with Famitsu magazine, Metal Gear series creator Hideo Kojima confirmed that this project was "a completely new Metal Gear Solid" for the PSP and will be part of the series' canon. It will not be a side-story like the previous Metal Gear Ac!d games, nor a remake.
Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops has attracted the talents of several high ranking members from Kojima Productions including Shinta Nojiri as the project's director and producer, Shuyo Murata, and Kojima himself.
Session 56 of the HideChan! radio program revealed details about the game. It will be an interquel set between the events of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater and the original Metal Gear, starring Big Boss during the early days of FOXHOUND. Gameplay will consist of squad-based action, in which the player takes control of several soldiers at once. The game will feature full cinemas and voice acting. The game's graphics will be on par with those of the series' PlayStation 2 installments, but with a lower polygon count.
Interestingly enough, not only do Big Boss, Para-Medic, Sigint and Major Zero appear as playable characters, but in the teaser, Ocelot, EVA and Raikov appear as recruitable characters that will lend him a hand as well.
At the last day of the E32006, Konami held a limited playtest in which showed off the multiplayer aspect of Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops. Its visuals weren't quite identical to its former brother (Snake Eater) but it sure holds quite a punch for a handheld. The GRU soldiers, Ocelot, Eva, they all had a striking resemblance to its former counterpart. It could be a good thing or a bad thing but Portable Ops multiplayer has a striking resemblance to Subsistence online mode. The only difference noticed from the deathmatch of Portable Ops from that of Subsistence is that the leader of the scoreboard seems to be haunted by a kerotan (cute but annoying frog character) which floats on his/her head and make those sounds. And the second difference is that Portable Ops has what it seems to be some sort of an audio-radar (Probably the Sonar) which let's you detect the noise from the kerotan call.
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