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Touch Solid Snake All Over Your... iPhone

Remember that weird green Metal Gear equation Konami posted recently? They went and solved for i. iPhone, that is.

Apparently Apple wasn't beating its chest about the iPhone being a "gaming console" just for kicks. Konami has demystified the Metal Gear teaser site it posted a couple of weeks ago by announcing--drum roll--Metal Gear Solid Touch, an iPhone-specific mission for Solid Snake based on the story of MGS4.

You know what this means. We have to actually start caring about iPhone games now.

Here's all the revealed info so far, straight out the press release.

METAL GEAR SOLID TOUCH is an original game that brings to life the world and characters of MTAL GEAR SOLID 4 GUNS OF THE PATRIOTS (MGS4).

With direct control through the touch panel, it's simple for anyone to move their alignment or switch to zoom mode. Each stage's location and characters are based on the story of MGS4. The initial download will contain 8 stages, with additional stages to be added later. There are many ways to enjoy the game as points earned by clearing stages unlocks images and wallpapers from the METAL GEAR series.

Aaaaaand screens!

A one.
A one.
And a two.
And a two.












Doesn't look half bad, honestly. We'll see how well it runs, though, and more importantly how well it plays. Console-style games don't have the best track record on the iPhone/iPod Touch so far. Why is that? Oh, perhaps the lack of any traditional controls whatsoever? Let's hope Konami figures out a way to overcome that limitation.
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Ooo, you kept saying the word 'fuck'...you must be pretty tough in real life.

Please list all of the commonly accepted colors for every console and handheld. I'll wait.

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fuckin Sumo X is all:
Allow me to snicker for a bit at all the people who thought that the teaser was MGS4 for the 360 simply because it was in green. Seriously, it's a color- you associate it with the 360, not everyone.

the fuck are you talkin about? the fuck are YOU talkin about? Xbox has been bangin the color green high on its flag since Bill Gates birthed it from his whorey vagina. so, the fuck are you talkin about? you're talkin, but what the fuck about? and why use the word "snicker" in a sentence? you knew your post was gonna be public. why do it?

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Anyone know if this will be for the iPod touch also?

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Allow me to snicker for a bit at all the people who thought that the teaser was MGS4 for the 360 simply because it was in green. Seriously, it's a color- you associate it with the 360, not everyone.

I was right in saying it was for the iPhone, but I really thought it was going to be Metal Gear Acid. Too bad, because I think it would fit the platform better.

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Konami = greatest troll ever.

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Konami knows how to get by any limitations, including if making a game in system which has no buttons!
They sold their soul to the devil just like Apple's CEO. Now that both companies have joined for this game, they shall become invincible!
 muhahahahaha!

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Duckbutter said:
"for you fucks that dont pay your light bills, you should know when you turn the Xbox on in the dark, all you see is that green power symbol. which looked the same as that green power symbol in that waste of time equation Konami threw up. i think they did that shit on purpose puttin that equation in Xbox-green to get Xbox pimps excited for no reason. ya know? ta like throw it in our faces that it ain't commin to Xbox. know what ahm sen? i think it's a "fuck you, fuck-necks" and i take it as a personal insult."
don't be butthurt :/
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Now we will be hearing about the "IPHONE FANBOYS", crying all day long about  how it "has better graphics than the psp and ds together"..... be prepared for the end of the world.

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Another shit-tastic cell phone game? Way to go, Japan!

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Now I gotta buy an iphone ASAP .

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for you fucks that dont pay your light bills, you should know when you turn the Xbox on in the dark, all you see is that green power symbol. which looked the same as that green power symbol in that waste of time equation Konami threw up. i think they did that shit on purpose puttin that equation in Xbox-green to get Xbox pimps excited for no reason. ya know? ta like throw it in our faces that it ain't commin to Xbox. know what ahm sen? i think it's a "fuck you, fuck-necks" and i take it as a personal insult.

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Damn, I'm eating my words.

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If it does turn out to be a "Duck Hunt" version of Metal Gear Solid, I'm going to laugh. They already stated their original design for the game had to be toned back for the lack of iPhone controls.

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that title sounds so wrong if you think about it in that way

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This will suck. Nuff said.

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I say... boo.
Thanks for teasing us with a fucking iphone game, Kojima.
I knew he was evil, but SHEESH.

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I've never seen so many people cry about a game not being ported to the platform of their choice.

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regularassmilk said:
niall077 said:
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But Kutaku said it was teh 360 port.... kutaku wouldnt lie would they?

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well you spelled kotaku wrong. So your dumb as hell.....



Well you spelled "you're" wrong, failed to capitalize your first sentence, started your second sentence with a conjunction and wrote your second sentence as a fragment, if you want to play it that way.
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Why couldn't they call it the Solid-i?  Mwahhh...

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Interesting. I would be getting this game if I wasn't on a Verizon plan right now. I even got the MGS Mobile game when it came out for Verizon carriers (which was actually really good- it was like the original MGS and played pretty well) but this might be where I draw the line. Unless I cancel my plan I probably won't be getting this.

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From what Kotaku has said, it is read in Famitsu that it is just a point and click (or in this case a touch and shoot) style game. You won't control Snake, but you just touch the enemies to shoot at them.

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Hm. The first MGS game I don't give a crap about.

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GIVEMEREPLAY said:
"HELL YES! I'm getting an Ipod touch for Christmas and I was really worried that there wouldn't be anything to play. Thank you Kojima!"
lol your geting an iFail just for a game? comeon seriously? this game will fail.
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I really don't want to play a Metal Gear game on my damn phone.  All that hype for this crap? 

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WTF!?!?!?!?!?!?!? FOR THE IPHONE AND ITOUCH??????? HEY KOJIMA, Y DON'T U GET A DEAL, WITH A REAL GAMING COMPANY (other than Sony) AND MAKE MGS4 FOR THE 360, I BET U'LL GET WAY MORE MONEY, AND IT WON'T COMPLETELY SUCK, HOW R THE CONTROLS GONNA BE??? U TILT THE PHONE/TOUCH TO AIM???? IT'LL SUCK

no offense to the iphone/touch, i luv my iphone but come on, it's NOT a gaming console, i'm sry, but one button one the front??? how do u:
1) aim
2) walk
3) any thing else
o wait, i forgot, that one button is used to get to the home screen at ALL TIMES so u can't even do 1 thing with it!!!!
KONAMI, ONLY ONE THING TO SAY, 'WTF WERE U THINKING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!'
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Why on God's Green Earth would I want to play this game anytime in the next billion years?

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Ok. Sweet. Huge news. woohoo. Monotone droning

Seriously, why the teaser?? Are the also gunna have a teaser for the awesome new MGS poster??
Also, I am sorry, but Apple+gaming=fail. Since Marathon and Diabo 2, Apple simply has nothing. Before that they had more then a fighting chance, but they lost. They to stop. The iPhone would be cool for gaming if it worked, but so far nothing has worked terribly well. I'll wait for the nVidia thing coming to the market for some decent stuffs.

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Or, it means that Metal Gear Solid has jumped even further over the shark.

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This isn't that surprising when you think about it. The Macs and the ipod in MGS4 and also, from what I heard, Kojima really likes Macs.

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OK, so this needs to hilariously be, like 8 gigs.  Seriously, how big can this game be, memory-wise?

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This is kind of underwhelming.

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Let's hope this announcement has finally put to rest the rumors for MGS4 on X360.

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stupid stupid stupid if this doesn't sell well they really got what was coming to them

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Boring.

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PapaLazarou, I care about MGS and I own an iPhone! But alas, I suppose you're right. The iPhone owner in me couldn't really care less about MGS, and the person who cares about MGS in me doesn't really want to play it on my iPhone. I'll just keep playing MGS4 on my PS3. There's a reason the best games on the iPhone are often the simplest.
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WHAT. make an iphone version when they coulda made a 360 one? their trippin, and this is probably gonna blow. we'll see though

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So, the E missing from "MTAL" in that press release is a teaser for the 360 game, right?

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niall077 said:
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But Kutaku said it was teh 360 port.... kutaku wouldnt lie would they?

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well you spelled kotaku wrong. So your dumb as hell.....
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Looking over the posts, I seem to be the only one to be doing so. I may be called up to review, haha.

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This ain't gonna be great, but for an iPhone game, Star Wars: TFU was actually pretty good. I have an iPhone, so I don't see a reason why I won't be picking this up.

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i think that was a really lame tease then, what with it looking like it was going to be an xbox thing. way to let the masses down. it's inevitable that the controls will be pretty lame.

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Ugh. What a complete waste.

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Finally, people will be able to touch their solid snake public and not get locked up. Thank you Konami for this great service.

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Visually it looks good, but as this blog post stated, how well will the game play out with using only a  touch screen? I know the answer to that question already but I'd like to hear it from the reviewers themselves to confirm it.

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Hopefully, this won't turn out to be a crappy touch-and-shoot game with MGS characters just plastered over it.

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i just noticed something. almost all pictures, screenshots of things ON the iPhone, show the actual iPhone... is it actually that much cooler just cuz it's on the iPhone. I think not!

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Cool. Less reason to care about Metal Gear.

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Hope its good!

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ahhh man i was hoping for something on the 360. meh itl have to do. i guess it will work with the ipod touch too

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Pfft, so should of been 360 release :P