Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
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Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots is canonically the final game in the Metal Gear series, and is the last to be directed by Hideo Kojima. It was released exclusively for PlayStation 3 in all major territories on June 12th, 2008.
Kojima References
- Snake has a MetalGear mk.II as a Navigator (Snatcher reference)
- The Neo Kobe logo appears on the bottom-right hand corner of MetalGear mk.II and the Gekkos' view (Snatcher reference)
- "Search the House" is written in Japanese on Otacon's desktop (Snatcher reference)
- Otacon has a ZOE2 wallpaper on one of his computers (Zone Of the Enders reference)
- Otacon has a Policenauts wallpaper on another computer (Policenauts reference)
- Otenko also appears on the ZOE2 desktop (Boktai reference)
- There is an icon of a Snatcher on Otacon's desktop (Snatcher reference)
- The Neo Kobe logo appears as an icon on Otacon's desktop (Snatcher reference)
- Sunny has a screensaver of Django and Sabata walking across a screen (Boktai reference)
- MetalGear mk.II makes the same chime that it did in Snatcher
- Meryl wears a "bullet earring" (though, this time on her right ear, while her Policenauts version wore it on the left one) (Policenauts reference)
- Meryl wears the same bandanna as she does in Policenauts
- Raiden's exoskeleton was also created by Tokugawa Heavy Industry. (Policenauts reference)
- Raiden's blood is now white, like a Frozener. (Policenauts reference)
- The name of Snake's "Solid Eye" eyepatch is borrowed from an accessory that is bundled with MetalGear AC!D²
- Drebin and Little Gray are addicted to a soda called "Narc" (Policenauts reference)
- In Act 3, Snake disguises himself by wearing a suit, similar to Gillian Seed's (Snatcher reference)
- Meryl Silverburgh now works in a team with a duo called Ed and Jonathan (Policenauts reference)
- In the Japanese version of MGS4, Ed and Jonathan are voiced by Hideyuki Tanaka and Shōzō Iizuka, who voiced Ed Brown and Jonathan Ingram in Policenauts
- Raiden refers to his son as "Little John". (Snatcher reference)
- Dr. Pettrovich Madnar reconstructs Raiden from Snatcher parts (Snatcher refererence)
- Solidus's body is preserved as a Biomort (Policenauts reference)
- In Otacon's lab on Shadow Moses, there is a ZOE2 poster crudely covering a Policenauts poster (MGS: The Twin Snakes/Policenauts/Zone Of the Enders: The Second Runner reference)
- MGS4 is split into "Acts", which each start in a similar way to the Acts in Snatcher and Policenauts.
- You can unlock the Gun Del Sol by tranquillising the FROGs in Act 1 and each member of the Beauty & The Beast Unit (Boktai reference)
- You can unlock music from several Hideo Kojima games, including Policenauts and Snatcher, to play on your iPod
- Additional music from other games play on the Nomad's stereo during Briefing sequences
- During a Briefing sequence, Sunny plays Penguin Adventure on her PSP.
- When Jonathan and Ed are lying on the boat wounded at the end of Act 3, their lines to each other are taken directly from the Epilogue in Policenauts.
- The designs of the Powered Suits seen in Act 2 are based on those from Policenauts.
- The wallpaper on Otacon's laptop shows silhouettes of two faces looking at each other, forming an optical illusion of hourglass. (Snatcher reference)
- Otacon's supercomputer is called "GAUDI" (the Japanese name for "Jordan" in Snatcher)
Releases
- Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (NTSC/US)
- Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (NTSC/JP)
- Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (PAL)
- Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots - LIMITED EDITION (NTSC/US)
- Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots - LIMITED EDITION (NTSC/JP)
- Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots - LIMITED EDITION (PAL)

