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Hideo Kojima to Showcase Fox Engine on August 30

And, yeah, it's probably for a Metal Gear game.

We've seen glimpses of the Fox Engine in the past, but it's never been clear what it's for.
We've seen glimpses of the Fox Engine in the past, but it's never been clear what it's for.

A betting man would have good reason to believe Hideo Kojima is making yet another Metal Gear game, and maybe we’ll know for sure by the end of next month.

As part of a retrospective feature on the 25th anniversary of Metal Gear on the PlayStation Blog, Kojima teased his next project, which will be based on a built-from-the-ground-up Fox Engine.

Kojima said he would be ready to show what Fox Engine is capable of in Japan on August 30.

A snippet from the end of the retrospective:

“The Fox Engine is nearly finished, but the only way to be sure it works is to create a game at the same time and improve the engine with our tools as we go along. Originally we were going to do this for Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, but a lot happened along the way and instead it is being made with the engine they have at Platinum Games.

Production studios in Japan are nearly extinct, a fact that we have recognized for nearly 10 years, and although the Fox Engine is not finished we are ready to show what it can do... on August 30th in Japan to be more specific.”

Fox Engine is powering Kojima’s next game, which we only know as Project Ogre, at the moment.

Seems curious the tease would come as part of a Metal Gear history lesson, though, right?

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@Video_Game_King: That's totally my birthday too! We can be birthday buddies?!

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@craves said:

@Video_Game_King: That's totally my birthday too! We can be birthday buddies?!

No. Get another birthday. ONLY I CAN HAVE THIS BIRTHDAY!

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@Brodehouse said:

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@ImmortalSaiyan

Hopefully it is something not related to a previously existing series. What else needs to be said in the Metal Gear story?

Money always needs saying.

Some people just like the universe. I wouldn't mind another Metal Gear even if you don't play Snake but you get Otacon and and Col. Campbell, Naomi etc. Thats the whole joy of becoming invested in a series.

I don't think I like Metal Gear so much as I like the bugfuck manner in which Kojima does anything. But I realize that without the words Metal Gear on the box I would probably never get another game from him. Considering it's basically the Cyberpunk Rennaissance now, it seems like the perfect time for Snatcher. There's two tropes that are huge in development now; Cyberpunk and Open World Zombie Survival. There are like a half dozen of both in development or recently released.

I'd love a modern day Snatcher game.

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@HydraHam said:

@ImmortalSaiyan said:

Hopefully it is something not related to a previously existing series. What else needs to be said in the Metal Gear story?

Another Big Boss game? Gray Fox game? They could literally do a dozen new and interesting MGS game because the timeline is the series is so broad they could easily do interesting prequels/sequels, stand alone missions etc.

I'd play a game about The Boss. Though I'd love to hear David Hayter's voice again...

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SNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE!!!!!!

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I remember reading somewhere that Kojima wanted to have a game with some kind of social experience and to have an open world environment. If it is a Metal Gear game, I'd predict it somewhere to be either during MGS2 timeline where Snake is in Philanthropy and the organization is taking down Metal Gears and shit, or before MGS4. Either way, I'd rather have ZOE3 on Fox Engine.

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new Snatcher game?

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No duh, it'll be a KojiPro IDOLM@STER game.

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Lets hope they go back and skip the auto-camo suit for the older, Snake Eater kind of stuff.

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MGS4 doesn't quite hold up as well as I thought it would.

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I'm excited for MGS5, but I'd still love to see Kojima go wild with a game about this kid in the forest with his dog.

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I hope the next games will be a Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2 Remakes

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Policenauts sequel

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SNAKE? SNAKE?!!? COME IN!!! SNAAAAAKKKKKKEEEEE!!!!!

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Peace Walker was really good, hopefully they build on the systems and gameplay in that and MGS4 for this game, if it is MGS.

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All that money in R&D to build some new engine instead of just purchasing the rights to a premade engine to work on the game sooner.

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It's going to be MGS5 set in the 70s around the time of Les Enfants Terribles.

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I'm pretty sure Kojima's mentioned that his next game is called Project Ogre because it has an *actual* ogre in it so I have my doubts regarding it's MetalGear-ness

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Is engine a next gen thing, or is he seriously planning on releasing a current gen engine seven years in? I seriously hope this is his PS4 plan.

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So, this one will be his last Metal Gear game though, right? -______-

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@Video_Game_King said:

@craves said:

@Video_Game_King: That's totally my birthday too! We can be birthday buddies?!

No. Get another birthday. ONLY I CAN HAVE THIS BIRTHDAY!

Only I may dance!

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Hopefully Solid Snake will be shown in action.

That's probably hoping for way too much, though.

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@Krrutch said:

new Snatcher game?

Yes.

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Let's prequel that shit

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I know the burning question is: Does this game model it's trees from the ground up as well, or does it utilize SpeedTree?

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I'm always up for another Metal Gear game. I wonder if we will get Solid Snake or Big Boss this time around.

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I am very curious to see this engine in action more.

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*puts on shades* It's Kojima time.

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The game I've been waiting for:

Metal Gear Solid: Boy and Dog in Jungle

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MGS is where I just say: Fuck It

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SNAKE? SNAKE?!!? COME IN!!! SNAAAAAKKKKKKEEEEE!!!!!

Metal Gear?!

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Looking forward to just what the Fox Engine is truly capable of when it is in action. Hopefully it can deliver the same kind of awesome quality that the newest Unreal Engine promises to deliver in the near future.

Knowing Kojima, I can say that I look forward to a new Metal Gear Solid project to be announced for the next-gen systems running on the Fox Engine.

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Will the new Fox engine help save Konami from itself? Will Japan build a capable competitor to the Unreal engine? Is all of this a ploy to get David Hayter back into the audio booth?

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"Fox Engine is powering Kojima’s next game, which we only know as Project Ogre, at the moment." 

 If this means a Metal Gear-Onimusha crossover, then color me intrigued.

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oh great, this means more cut scenes, yay

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You had me had more Metal Gear.

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Even though its probably another MGS game, I would really love to see Kojima's craziness without the MGS back story to tie it too. Oh who am I kidding I hope its a new ZoE game

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Engine schmengine...I just want a game, and not an interactive, nonsensical movie. MGS4 had about a hour worth of actual gaming, and 7 hours of cutscenes. Make a game, already.

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Project Ogre, eh? I hope that suggest exactly what i think it suggests :3

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I don't want to see another game with old snake, he looks so god damn stupid and bears no resemblance to the other snakes.

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@Lazyaza said:

@Jayzilla: Yes it was a completely intentional ripoff because at the time Kojima really liked both the movie the character and the original art. Look up the all your history video series on youtube, they did a pretty awesome retrospective on MGS not long ago.

I thought he was borrowing from Escape From New York, which had a protagonist with an eye patch named Snake Plissken. Though I suppose he may have had a few different sources of inspiration.

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@Scrawnto said:

@Lazyaza said:

@Jayzilla: Yes it was a completely intentional ripoff because at the time Kojima really liked both the movie the character and the original art. Look up the all your history video series on youtube, they did a pretty awesome retrospective on MGS not long ago.

I thought he was borrowing from Escape From New York, which had a protagonist with an eye patch named Snake Plissken. Though I suppose he may have had a few different sources of inspiration.

The design of the Metal Gear Solid Snake we all know and love and the specific art created for the cover of the original Metal Gear 2d game aren't related. Original snake was just a 2D sprite after all and like all 2d era games box art was always the highly imaginative "idea" of what the games elements looked like for good or worse.

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This is next gen.

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I hope we get some back story, maybe some more of Big Boss or another Solid Snake mission on that was supper off the books.

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Sounds cool.

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Otacon Trading Card Game.