Metal Gear Solid Latest News…

Last week I talked about how the Metal Gear Hype-machine had started turning. Well this week its gone into overdrive! Since Rockstar dropped GTA4, the gaming media have quickly jumped onto the MGS4 band wagon.
Yesterday’s press conference in Japan saw Mr Kojima hail the completion of the last in the Metal Gear titles. He explained how he had nearly given up, but stressed how he ‘had to finish it for the fans’. Oh we love you Hideo!
The presser saw the release of five new trailers. The awesome new theatrical trailer, a two minute game intro trailer and 3 short TV Advert style trailers.

The Theatrical trailer

MGS4 Intro

MGS4 ‘Regain’ Ad

MGS4 ‘Cat’ Ad

MGS4 ‘cellphone’ Ad

In other MGS4 news. It emerged today that the elaborate April Fools joke by Konami, showing Solid Snake running around as Altair from Assassins creed – was not a joke after all. MGS4 players will in fact be able to dress up as Altair, which will be unlocked by performing a certain task! Im not sure what it is, but my guess is completing the game – like in MGS1.

New PS3 GTA Patch. Update 1.01

Since launch, GTA4 has had some mjor problems on the PS3. From the multiplayer problems – to the game save problems, its been very frustrating. Rockstar have however, showed their commitment to providing what they call ‘the best possible interactive entertainment experience’, by releasing the first update just 9 days after release. The file is only 18mb and takes seconds to download. It should automatically download when you try and boot the game. Here is the official statement:

Rockstar Games has released a GTA IV patch for Playstation 3 today that prevents GameSpy’s servers from being overloaded and therefore reduces the impact on those servers that were causing the game to stutter and lock up. We continue to monitor the performance of the game both on and offline and will provide further updates as necessary. We want to assure everyone that, together with our hardware partners, we continue to strive to give our fans the best possible interactive entertainment experiences possible. This update will ensure that everyone will experience Grand Theft Auto IV the way it was intended. We apologize for the inconvenience this has caused.

Some people still seem to be having difficulties even after downloading the patch. I myself, have had no problems. I will keep an eye on it, and let you know how it goes.

GTA4 News & Updates…

A few bits of interesting info has cropped up over the bank holiday weekend. Instead of getting absolutely trollied, as is traditional in England over this long May weekend, some people decided to hit GTA4 hard.

Liberty City can now be viewed using Google Maps! This handy application shows everything from mission start points to hidden easter eggs. Well worth a look. The map can be found over at IGN.

Liberty City Map

Are their Zombies in GTA4 multiplayer?

..and more importantly, are they Rockstar undercrackes he’s wearing!!

Rumour has it that the PS3 equvilant ‘achievement’ to the 360’s killing a rockstar employee online, is that you play the rest of the game as a rockstar zombie!! Although this hasn’t been confirmed by anyone yet.