Metal Gear Rising is About Revenge and Vengance (PS3, XBOX)

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Even though the trailer had leaked before the VGA's took off, Hideo Kojima still took stage to announce that speculations and rumors would come to a halt concerning the direction that Metal Gear Rising would be taking in the future closing out the night with its trailer at the Spike VGA's last weekend and I think that viewer's were completely shocked by the announcement and since the trailer's release, the forum's and comment sections have been abuzz as to exactly what was shown.

Metal Gear Rising has been retitled: "Metal Gear Rising: Revengence" and has been given a sort of 'Megadeath' look to the games logo and the trailer's audio track sounded like something I would have heard when I was seven or eight watching a commercial for a cartoon when watching Saturday morning cartoons. Unless I'm mistaken as well, Vamp reared his ugly face in the trailer.

Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance Trailer

Now, there have been speculations as to why we've not heard from Konami or Kojima Productions concerning Metal Gear Rising simply because Konami had chosen to can the project. What's interesting is that at E3 as many years ago when Hideo Kojima announced that just as Snake passed the torch to Raiden, he too would be passing the torch to his young producer. But, at the VGA's, it appears there may have been a different Producer standing by his side. We find as well, that Platinum Games of Bayonetta, Vanquish and MadWorld fame will be heading up development of the game which makes sense as when you view the trailer, it visually has a very Platinum Games look to it.

However, once fans got a look at the trailer, it was then weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth. Given that the game has not been released yet and we still have yet to get our hands on it, at first glance, any Metal Gear Solid fan knows this isn't typical Metal Gear. Stealth has been stripped away, it appears, and the game seems to have become a Ninja Gaiden sort of game hacking off limbs and watching blood fly everywhere. On the contrary, it was possible to play Metal Gear Solid 3 without killing a soul leaving your conscience unscathed. As well, Raiden almost appears to practically be a god in this game as he trailer shows him battling a Metal Gear and he picks it up in some sort of Flintstones Bam-Bam manner and hucks it across the screen as though it were filled with helium after jetting up onto it and running across it and de-wiring the unit.

The trailer, however clearly states that Metal Gear is apparently being rebooted, which when this is heard gives the same impression that Tomb Raider, Devil May Cry and so many other games getting the face lift have been giving. But, is a reboot really what Metal Gear really needs? It even shows that Solid was synonomous was Snake as the title no longer reads Metal Gear Solid Rising: Revengeance. No the series is definitely taking a turn and Raiden will be doing things a little bit differently.

Finally, we've learned that where Metal Gear Rising was to take place before Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, it now will take place following Metal Gear Solid 4. We look forward to seeing this game in the near future but expect it to be a very different sort of Metal Gear experience.