Famed Konami franchise comes to the XBOX 360 with a brand new adventure featuring Raiden.
Raiden will be the main character in "Rising".Earlier today at Microsoft's press conference Konami's Hideo Kojima briefly appeared to announce a new Metal Gear game that will get released on the X360. The game, titled Metal Gear Solid: Rising, will feature Raiden as the main protagonist instead of Solid Snake and will be an entirely new adventure. The game was not formally announced as an X360 "exclusive" so there is potentially some chance that the game might hit the PS3 as well but that is just pure speculation. Details at the moment are thin, with only a quick teaser trailer being shown for the game. Here's the full press release:
Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc., announced today that Metal Gear Solid: Rising is currently in development for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft - the first Metal Gear Solid game to launch on the Xbox 360®. Raiden, one of the most popular characters in the Metal Gear Solid universe, will star in the all-new title from Hideo Kojima. Raiden first debuted in Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system as a playable character and appeared as a non-playable cyborg in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots for the PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system.
"The Metal Gear Solid series is one of the most highly acclaimed video game franchises of all time," said Anthony Crouts, Vice President of Marketing for Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc. "With Metal Gear Solid: Rising, the Xbox 360 community will finally get a chance to enjoy the action and excitement that this popular franchise is known to offer."
I wonder how many 360 owners are interested, given that Kojima's games are completely different from what else is on the platform. How many have never played a MGS game before and thus will not even get the slightest bit of the story, and then we haven't factored in that Kojima is doing the storytelling so it'll be even more incomprehensible.
From all kinds of angles it seems that making this a 360 exclusive would seem like the dumbest thing to do, so I really doubt that it is an exclusive.
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