Tuesday 3 October 2006
These brand new screens for Metal Gear Solid 4: The Guns of the Patriots give us an excellent view of Solid Snake's incredible camouflage skills, thanks to his super-special octo-cam suit.
The chameleonic gadget changes colour to match Snake's surroundings and helps you disappear in plain sight. Hit the images tab for even more.
Snake's octo-cam is so impressive we struggled to pick him out in some of these images. Look closely and you'll also see that in certain shots Snake is wearing an octo-cam hood. Check out the last minutes of the amazing Tokyo Game Show trailer and you'll see that a younger looking Snake is the one who wears a camouflage hood.
Is he a new playable character? A rival? Or another facemask to put us off the scent, like the faux-Raiden face Big Boss wore at the start of MGS3: Snake Eater? We'll have to wait a long time for the answers but at least Konami's steady dribble of new shots and info can help tide us over.
Metal Gear Solid's former art director once said he spends "a lot of time fussing over the details of the characters' backside since that's the side the player sees most in-game"
In 1997, Hideo Kojima said the "one thing" he wanted to avoid in Metal Gear Solid was "tedious" cutscenes with characters "blabbering at each other for 4 or 5 minutes"
