Guide Note

Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots was officially released at midnight on June 12, 2008. The title has been described as "essentially finished" since January 2008, having undergone extensive beta testing. As of April 2008, a small team of American and European journalists were the only outsiders to have played through the game in its entirety to provide feedback to the development team.

Fast Facts

1. Developer: Kojima Productions
2. Platform: PlayStation 3
3. Genre: Stealth
4. ESRB Rating: Mature
5. Release Date: June 12, 2008

Kojima initially expressed disappointment in the final rendition of the game's graphics and his inability to realize his early vision due to restrictions of the PlayStation 3 in an EDGE Magazine interview. Kojima says, "But when we actually started developing the game, we realized there were a lot of restrictions and so it turned out how you see it today ... we wanted to create something revolutionary, but in reality we couldn't really do that because of the CPU. We're using the Cell engine to its limit, actually. Please don't get me wrong, I'm not criticising the PS3 machine, it's just that we weren't really aware of what the full-spec PS3 offered." Kojima has since stated he is satisfied with the end product.