Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance

[Smiley]

Metal Gear Solid: Rising has found its groundwork. And that is Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance. Rebooted and retooled. Kojima Productions have decided to allow Platinum Games (developers of such great titles as Kamiya's Bayonetta and Mikami's Vanquish) to make the latest spin off in the Metal Gear franchise. But don't let that steer you away from KP working on MGS5.

"The previous version of Rising aimed to have feel good action with Raiden as main character as a spin-off, not MGS. The same concept is shared for the new RISING by [PlatinumGames]. For those who are hoping for a stealth style MGS, this will definitely appear at some point, so please wait for a true sequel."
- Hideo Kojima, on Twitter.
Translated by andrisang

With that out of the way let's look into the past, present and future of Rising before we see more at E3.





Following the news comes a series of viral videos which depict elements related to the game including glimmers of Cyborg Raiden having flashbacks into his youth as a child soldier with Solidus.

http://metalgearsolid.com/rising/

[Mr. Spencer]

You're just looking to get rich aren't you? Didn't earn enough from ORC, so now you want more.

[Smiley]

Actually I'm not sure how the sales for Rising will do. Yes it's part of the MGS group, but Platinum Games isn't a gold mine despite their quality titles.

[BBboy20]

Actually I'm not sure how the sales for Rising will do. Yes it's part of the MGS group, but Platinum Games isn't a gold mine despite their quality titles.

If ORC can be successful because it has RE on the title, odds are this can be a success too.

[Smiley]

Well ORC was built for co op and multiplayer. Rising on the other hand as far as we know is a single player game. There might be online, but nothing is confirmed as of yet.

[Wrathborne]

I forget, did we all agree that 'revengence' was a real word or not?

[Mr. Spencer]

Bastardisation of well established characters. Check!

[BBboy20]

Well ORC was built for co op and multiplayer. Rising on the other hand as far as we know is a single player game. There might be online, but nothing is confirmed as of yet.

I don't think MGO was that much of a selling point for the franchise so who knows. Besides, the hell with them if they think chopping body parts in different ways isn't as exciting as aim>shoot>reload>repeat against real people.

[Vito]

Simply horrible. Way to fuck up the series.

[Smiley]

The series is fine. This is a spin off like Ac!d and Ghost Babel which takes the series in a different direction. The design is centered on playing as a cyborg ninja with the goal set on fluid cutting mechanics for the game play.

With Raiden being a main character and one of the few ninja currently alive in the series the direction isn't that unheard of. But if your skepticism is on the game itself being bad I could understand. Saying it fucks up the series however is hardly much of a claim though. The main series will still get MGS5.

[Dark_Chris]

The series is fine. This is a spin off like Ac!d and Ghost Babel which takes the series in a different direction.

Those two aren't canon, yet Rising probably will be. This'll make big difference. So yeah it is simply horrible. I'll wait till E3 before final judgement, but so far I am sceptical.

[Dracarys]

Probably be a flashy game with mediocre gameplay, like Vanquish and Bayonetta.

[aris13]

Probably be a flashy game with mediocre gameplay, like Vanquish and Bayonetta.

Bad taste confirmed.

[Mrox2]

This is Wrong ! Seriously , at least the first version "Kojima's" might have turned out better , but what the hell Platinum games !?

[GuardhouseMusic]

Didn't Kojima say even at the point of the original version preview (coinciding with the release of Peace Walker) that he had his hands off the project?

[Archelon]

Bastardisation of well established characters. Check!

Metal Gear Solid 4 was already a bastardization of well established characters. Why should this be any different?

[Smiley]

Those two aren't canon, yet Rising probably will be. This will make big difference. So yeah it is simply horrible. I'll wait till E3 before final judgement, but so far I am sceptical.

The plot and its place in the canon is uncertain at this time. I know they've distanced themselves from the timeline by re-writing the story to take place after MGS4 as opposed to trying to fit it in between MGS2 and MGS4. But that's it so far as the aspects of the plot and characters are still under wraps. So it's hard to say Rising is horrible based on its place in the canon when nothing about the trailer gives the impression that the canon could or could not suffer from it.

Didn't Kojima say even at the point of the original version preview (coinciding with the release of Peace Walker) that he had his hands off the project?

He was never heavily involved as he was with Peace Walker since the latter was under his direction. If you watch the "Truth behind Rising" documentary I included it goes to say where Kojima stands on the game when it was in the hands of KP, and why he gave it to Platinum Games.

From my point of view, unless Kojima is directing then the rest of the team seems lost without him. It's why he keeps coming back to direct a main sequel despite wanting to work on other projects. This has been a running routine since MGS3. Platinum Games have shown that they make quality action games so a Metal Gear spin off featuring a cyborg ninja like Raiden seems right up their alley based on the established world of MGS. People have a preference with how the early builds of Rising looked at KP. They wanted to make this a launch title with the FOX engine they've been working on. However, now that Platinum has it the game will run on their engine which was used for Bayonetta and Vanquish. And instead of the game running at 30 fps as it would from KP's build, Platinum are going to run the game at 60 fps going full on with the action.

About the only concerns or skepticism I have is with the PC version which was missing from the latest trailer. I don't know if that will be cancelled now that Platinum is making the game.

[rehunk88]

This game will suck sooooooo much.

[Mr. Spencer]

Hey, Vanquish and Bayonetta were good games.

[Smiley]

But no one played them.