New Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker Demo Available for Download

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New Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker Demo Available for Download



If you want to play Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, and don't mind a little Japanese, the game's official website has a demo available to all.

Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker is the series' newest upcoming PSP iteration. The game's lengthy the game's official Japanese website [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/95015-Peace-Walker-Trailer-Reminds-Us-Why-We-Love-Metal-Gear] if you don't have a Japanese PSN account. If you've already played the demo made available around the time of TGS 2009, this is a new version with a few small changes such as Snake's roll controls and the camouflage color of certain enemies.

To make things a little easier, the download link is the big orange box on this page [http://www.konami.jp/mgs_pw/jp/download/step03.html]. Your PSP must be updated with firmware version 6.00 to play. After downloading the file, unzip it, connect your PSP to your computer with a USB cable, and put the file from the zip's "GAME" folder into your PSP's "GAME" folder. The demo is a little over 100 MB large, so you must have an appropriate storage device.

The demo's dialogue is all in Japanese, but it's not too hard to pick up Peace Walker's controls. The game has a tutorial (which can be skipped) that gives on-screen prompts as to how to perform certain actions, like Snake's satisfying hip throw. Peace Walker's controls are also available here in English [http://www.konami.jp/mgs_pw/en/index2.html] if you click on "Game System." The game has multiple missions, plenty of weapons, and is full of guards to knock unconscious. Just don't forget that in Metal Gear the circle button is used to confirm choices rather than X.

I haven't yet gotten to play Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops, so Snake feels somewhat strange at first to control on the PSP. The analog nub is not comfortable when slightly pushing it to make Snake sneak quietly. Still, it's nice to get a taste of Hideo Kojima's future PSP Metal Gear, even though most of us will probably have to wait for an English translation to understand any of the storyline.

(Via: Andriasang [http://www.andriasang.com/e/blog/2009/10/31/peace_walker_demo_controls/])

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Tom Goldman

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Dark marauder said:
it was also released on ign 2 months ago
Wrong, this is an updated demo. Try reading the last sentence of the first paragraph.
 

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Wow, I don't know whats more impressive, the demo or Tom Goldman furiously creating news articles.

Go Tom Goldman!

Tom Goldman said:
Dark marauder said:
it was also released on ign 2 months ago
Wrong, this is an updated demo. Try reading the last sentence of the first paragraph.
once again, go Tom Goldman, unleash your inner Clint Eastwood!
 

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ColdStorage said:
once again, go Tom Goldman, unleash your inner Clint Eastwood!
Oops, didn't mean to go Clint Eastwood, was just saying, you know, this demo is a little different.
 

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Tom Goldman said:
ColdStorage said:
once again, go Tom Goldman, unleash your inner Clint Eastwood!
Oops, didn't mean to go Clint Eastwood, was just saying, you know, this demo is a little different.
I know what your thinking, "did he make 4 news posts, or updates?", to be honest I don't know, but do you feel lucky.

Sorry i'll stop that, and sorry I didn't mean to like berate you, I thought it was brilliant how you cut down the speculation of forum comments with the might of logic. Kinda like how Dirty Harry stopped those goons, but not.