Don Solid Snake's 3D Glasses in Metal Gear Arcade

[Austin MacKenzie]

Don Solid Snake's 3D Glasses in Metal Gear Arcade

Japanese arcades have always been years ahead of American ones, so it's no surprise that Metal Gear Arcade is going to get some of the hottest peripherals to date.

Konami just released a trailer [http://www.konami.jp/mg_arcade/?ref=AOU2010] at Japan's AOU Expo, where all the newest arcade games and technology are revealed. The upcoming game, Metal Gear Arcade, will allow players to jump into the body of Snake or one of his comrades and partake in gunfights, explosions, and hiding under cardboard boxes.

Billed as "Tactical Online Action," Arcade offers gamers something new in the way of peripherals - a pair of 3D glasses and a gun controller. In addition to giving you a 3D perspective, the glasses have a few other handy features, such as a head tracking system, that makes your character look where you look, a microphone for voice chat, and a speaker system that surrounds your head for greater immersion into the gaming experience.

Will we see this game hitting stateside? It's hard to tell. While the Metal Gear franchise is certainly popular, arcades aren't nearly as prevalent in America. This technology may not leave Japan for quite some time, but who knows? In a few years, we might be able to pick up our guns and join the battle with Solid Snake, as portrayed by the ten-year-old who managed to grab the character before you.

Source: Joystiq [http://www.joystiq.com/2010/02/19/metal-gear-arcade-head-tracking-3d-glasses-exposed/]


Permalink

 

[tmujir955]

Woah...

That is a good looking arcade game.

Weirdly, I've never seen an arcade in America in my entire life.

 

[Gigaguy64]

i want this now.
NOW.

I doubt this will make it here any time soon.

My local arcade just now got Virtual On.......

 

[laryri]

That looks really cool actually. I wish arcades were still popular nowadays.

 

[SnootyEnglishman]

Oh i so want to move to japan now....Praise be to Hideo Kajima

 

[MurderousToaster]

I'd rather they not do this, but instead port Metal Gear Solid 4 to the 360.

That would be better. I want to play MGS without waiting for Rising.

 

[BattlePope]

I doubt this will make it here any time soon.

My local arcade just now got Virtual On.......

Mine used to have DDR, then they got rid of it and didn't even replace it. I play House of the Dead (the first one mind you) since there's that and Silent Scope (again the first one) and little else that is playable....

 

[Gigaguy64]

I doubt this will make it here any time soon.

My local arcade just now got Virtual On.......

Mine used to have DDR, then they got rid of it and didn't even replace it. I play House of the Dead (the first one mind you) since there's that and Silent Scope (again the first one) and little else that is playable....

Mine still hase some decent fighters including the first MvC, MvC2, SNK VS Capcom 2000, and Marvel VS Super Street Fighter.
It did have Guilty Gear Midnight Carnival XX but, they got rid of it.

It does, however, have this really cool FPSl(First Person Slasher), i cant remember the name of it though....ill haft to look it up.

 

[Lord Beautiful]

So, not only have they just now announced this title (as far as I know), they have a trailer and gameplay footage to accompany it, but after almost a year after Metal Gear Solid: Rising's announcement, all we have is a piece of CG art that came with the announcement? Konami, I'd like to know where your priorities are.

 

[Jared]

Now that us epic!!!

 

[Sevre]

Now bring it to my living room! Do it now!

 

[Proteus214]

The catch:

Probably $5 per play.

Although that probably matches the price on most games at Dave and Buster's these days.

 

[BattlePope]

I think we still have Soul Calibur 2. That is the closest arcade; I live in a large enough town that there were about 3 arcades, but one closed down after somebody got stabbed in the parking lot or something. The second one is in a mall and is supposed be run by Namco, but that is the one that kinda sucks now... The last one opened up and all it really has are whatever the last Tekken was, Time Crisis 4, and House of the Dead 4.

I guess it's cool, but they've got just those games (maybe a few others, but they're not that fun) and half the time some hyperactive kid broke something.

I do still love to play House of the Dead 1, but since I always played it from the second player perspective I have to use both guns at once, which makes me feel like a ridiculous showoff. But I do get up to the second boss and halfway towards beating that fight on just the two credits to play the player one and player two guns.

 

[The_Shinigamer]

If this was at my house you'd never see or hear from me again.

 

[SMOKEMNHALO2001]

Woah...

That is a good looking arcade game.

Weirdly, I've never seen an arcade in America in my entire life.

Wow that's sad (not on your part) I use to live in Lawton Oklahoma and the mall there had a small, and I mean small, arcade room. I moved to Dallas in August last year, went back home for Christmas and that arcade room was completely gone. The arcade era is long gone in the U.S.

 

[esperandote]

So you would be wearing geeky glasses and aiming a gun while talking... in public? Is embarrasing enough for a 25 year old to play regular arcades in public.

Most of the arcades here are pirate ones now, the ones that have a cpu with an arcade emulator inside.

 

[Erana]

Better than TV glasses!
Awesome!

Its things like this that make me look foreward to the future. It really is magic, isn't it?

 

[SomeGuyNamedKy]

Too bad I'll never see that game in my life time. The arcades in my city are a shit and a half. I have to go like an hour north of me to Orlando and pay like $40 to get into Disney Quest just to play good arcade games.