Pay no attention to the man inside the oil barrel
Frankly, this enormous Metal Gear Solid 4 gameplay demonstration video (Australian direct download link for iiNet customers here) would be quite hilarious even if it weren’t for Snake’s incredibly-well-defined buttocks.
But they, and the little dancing robot, push it to a whole new level.
Hideo seems very serious about it all, but I’ve no idea what he’s actually saying (beyond stuff like “aru-P-G” as he whips out an antitank launcher…), so I can’t be sure. I presume there’s a simply excellent explanation of Snake interrupting his murderous pursuits to check out a girlie mag.
Did the one you watched not have subtitles? I watched the quicktime version from the first link; it was all subtitled. You probably missed some great details, like the fact that the happy happy joy joy robot is in fact controlled by Snake using none other than A PS3 CONTROLLER! Ahh, the recursion.
Comment by m56 — July 29, 2007 @ 5:54 am
Subtitled? Yes. Subtitled with an English option? No :-).
I'll grab the Gametrailers version when I get a moment.
Comment by Daniel Rutter — July 29, 2007 @ 6:11 am
It's nice to see a game that while priding itself on its realistic graphics sill maintains a sense of humour. However the part where Snake used Octocam to "hide" himself on the floor in plain sight was a tad unbelievable . Of course there have been plenty of advancements in the field of cloaking and other forms of camouflage but I still think the coolest (and most innovative) sci-fi camouflage award has to go to the T1000's depiction of a tiled floor (theres an irony in watching a YouTube video of a sci-fi movie on an old television that I can't quite articulate). My pick for the sci-fi camouflage razzy award goes to 007's Aston Martin Vanquish.
Comment by kamikrae-z — July 29, 2007 @ 12:30 pm
And of course my amazing(ly non-existant) HTML skills borked up that last link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_James_Bond_vehicles
Comment by kamikrae-z — July 29, 2007 @ 12:32 pm
When I saw the oil barrel segment I busted out laughing...funny stuff.
Comment by Hobbler — July 30, 2007 @ 4:38 am
I haven't watched the video yet, but that certainly is some good camouflage - it took me a few seconds to actually spot Snake. :P
Comment by chiefnewo — July 30, 2007 @ 8:45 am