Upcoming multi-platform title Metal Gear Solid: Rising isnāt MGS4 with a fresh coat of paint. Oh, no.
According to the Kojima Productions podcast, Konami is developing a brand new engine for Rising to, as KP podcast host Sean Eyestone points out, ārealize this multi-platform goalā.
āWeāre redoing the engine from scratch, and itās going to look amazing,ā says Eyestone. āItās going to be a big project like Metal Gear Solid 4. The entire team is serious about making it look as good as possible on every platform.ā
The title Rising is a pun of sorts. The Japanese pronunciation āRaijinā is a word play on a mythic Japanese storm god. The character name āRaidenā means āthunder and lightningā in Japanese. Geddit?
The title also has significance in English: āItās raising the Metal Gear franchise up to the next step.ā
Kojima Productions does in depth [Metal Gear Scholar]
