Metal Gear Solid 4 promises to turn the advertising world upside down. It is perhaps one of the first games to have a 15 minute trailer as its teaser trailer, and a 3 minute trailer as its final theatrical trailer.
The sheer amount of content in the trailer is overwhelming and I don't have the time to write something about every shot as I could in the Gears of War 2 trailer. So, if you haven't watched it already, click play on the embedded player at the top of this post.
Watched it? Good.
My initial reaction to this trailer was 'Hmm, they used a Movie-trailer style voiceover' but maybe that's because I know very little about the Metal Gear series having never actually played one. I decided to read some of the responses to the video to see what others thought about it.
Immediately I was presented with a large number of comments saying something along the lines of 'Why isn't this coming out on 360?' and 'I'd a PS3 for this, but not until the PS3 costs 55p' or my personal favourite 'I'm not a fanboy, but the PS3 is a pile of steaming s**t' (Note: Some of these quotes have been emphasised for effect).
Digging down into some real comments, people commented on how movie-like the trailer was and I felt inclined to agree with them. Apart from the CG graphics and unrealistic sounding dialogue (It just doesn't sound natural to me) the trailer would not seem out of place in a cinema. It even managed to have that same sense of it trying too hard to sound exciting, in the same way a trailer for an action movie might, with lines like 'Evil is powerful' and 'When war becomes business'.
Yet more comments had people pointing out characters from older series that had made an appearance, although being unable to really name any characters other than the main ones means that I am not really in a position to confirm of deny such sightings.
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots is due out worldwide on June 12 only on PS3.
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