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Kojima’s New Open World Game: “Project Ogre”

By Brian P Rubin | 21 December 2011 | 6 Comments   

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This morning, a post on Joystiq pointed our way to an interview between Metal Gear mastermind Hideo Kojima and CNN, in which he discusses his upcoming open world project currently called Project Ogre.

“The kind of game I’m making is some game that has a very wide entrance, a very open entrance,” Kojima is quoted as saying through a translator. “Rather than making something very cinematic, [I plan to] make something very free.”

The CNN article explains that the game is “being set in a very open world where players can wander around and explore freely” and that “players should still be able to find new sights and worthwhile adventures after having played the game for as many as 100 hours.” That’s quite the bold prediction, indeed.

As both articles point out, this would be a big departure for Kojima from his Metal Gear games, as those are all pretty linear in terms of mission objectives, despite giving players the freedom to accomplish those objectives in lots of different ways.

The images we’ve got to work with, too, aren’t too illuminating. The images re-posted here aren’t explicitly stated as being from Project Ogre, but they have been popping up on Kojima’s Twitter feed. This one, for example, is explained by the Joystiq post of showing an example of the avatar-creation system.

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As long as Raiden’s not in it, I’ll be happy. Hate that whiny, no-jaw having geek.

Via Joystiq and CNN

6 Comments

  1. Posted by Lawrence Sonntag on 21 December 11 at 10:33am

    I’m interpreting that as “there won’t be three hour cutscenes.”

    I’m ok with that.

  2. Posted by Junayet Karim on 21 December 11 at 11:21am

    Yes!!! Hideo Kojima is amazing and this will be awesome no matter what anyone says!! I wonder if it’s going to be using that new engine they were making… Fox engine or something like that….

  3. Posted by GreekRomanGG on 21 December 11 at 12:34pm

    I hoping that this will be on pc or 360, but in reality I know that wont happen, still I refuse to spend another 250 bucks for a hardware thats basically the same thing than the 360 not hating on the ps3, i just dont want to pay more

    • Posted by Shane on 21 December 11 at 3:17pm

      Well, seeing as MGS: Collection and the upcoming MGS: Rising: Revengence (Which they totally ripped off from Metalocalypse by the way) are on the PS3 and 360, I’d say it’s probably a safe bet to say that it is.

  4. Posted by Jake on 27 December 11 at 12:51pm

    Hey! I liked Raiden.

  5. Posted by Crono The Master on 28 December 11 at 9:58am

    new game I know what it is get ready for this “Metal Gear Solid: OTACON RISING”.

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