More Metal Gear Solid 4 details: of explosive endings, transcending video games

There’s no denying that one of the most memorable days of gaming would have to be Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots‘ launch. If you’re yet to be convinced even with all the hype surrounding Kojima Productions’ Sony PlayStation 3 exclusive, new details from the EDGE Magazine may change your mind. Head over to the full article to find out why.

Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots‘ release on the Sony PlayStation 3 can’t come soon enough, but since we still have to wait, we’re all for pouncing on whatever Kojima Productions can feed us to satiate our hunger prior to the scheduled June 12 launch. This time, new details have surfaced to further whet our appetite.

According to a forum member at the NeoGAF forums who claims to have acquired the latest issue of the UK‘s Edge Magazine, plenty of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots features you probably haven’t heard of were unleashed. Here are the highlights:

• Ending will blow you away
• Snake needs injections to stay alive
• Snake will have two new energy bars that makes Snakes advanced age impossible to ignore
• Stress changes depending on fight conditions and can improve accuracy or Snake’s ability to sustain damage, but can cause him to become exposed to his illness; can be reduced by smoking a cig
• Psyche is Snake’s general state of mind, balance with stress affects progress.
• There’s something special about the camera that Kojima Productions is keeping in tight wraps
• Secrets and other content won’t be discovered until months or even years of play

Other promising factoids were mentioned, like Konami‘s Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots offering players highly detailed and fashionable consumer gadgets to toy around with. Stealth is still intact, but utilizing air ducts and sneaking past cameras have become fast paced. The game’s production values was also said to transcend modern video games, defined as “more suited to Return of the King than Halo 3.”

Via NeoGAF