When was Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots released?
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Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots is an action-adventure stealth video game developed by Kojima Productions and published by Konami exclusively for the PlayStation 3 console. It is the sixth "Metal Gear" game directed by Hideo Kojima and was released worldwide on June 12, 2008.
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
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In North America, a bundle containing an 80GB PlayStation 3, a DualShock 3 wireless controller, a downloadable game coupon for "Pain", and a copy of "Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots" was released for US$499 on June 12, 2008, to coincide with the release of the standalone edition. Japan saw the release of the "Guns of the Patriots Welcome Box" that contains the game itself, a DualShock 3 controller, a Sixaxis controller, and a 40GB PlayStation 3 in either black, white or silver.
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
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The "Metal Gear" franchise has achieved great success, selling over 53.8 million copies as of March 2018. "Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty" sold over 7 million copies worldwide, and is followed in sales by "Metal Gear Solid", "Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots", and "Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain", all with 6 million. According to Chart-Track, "Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots" was the second fastest-selling PlayStation 3 game in the United Kingdom after "Grand Theft Auto IV". The PlayStation Portable games were met with notably lower sales, but it has been analyzed that this was because of the low sales of the console when the games were released. "Metal Gear Survive", the first "Metal Gear" game to be developed since series creator Hideo Kojima left Konami, sold only a fraction of the sales made by "Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain".
Metal Gear
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The official soundtrack was released on May 28, 2008, by Konami Digital Entertainment under the catalog number GFCA-98/9. It consists of two discs of music and 47 tracks. A soundtrack album was also packaged with "Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots Limited Edition".
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
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After "Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots" was released, Hideo Kojima started coming up with ideas for another game, "Metal Gear Solid 5". The game was meant to feature The Boss and her comrades, the Cobra Unit, as main characters. However, the lack of experience from the younger staff in charge and the lack of involvement from Kojima resulted in this project being scrapped. Afterwards, a member suggested turning it into a sidestory focused on Raiden since said character was featured in "Guns of the Patriots" and the staff agreed to develop "Metal Gear Solid: Rising". It was originally conceived to chronicle the series of events that resulted in the transformation of Raiden into his cyborg ninja persona in "Metal Gear Solid 4". "Rising" would have taken place during a point in the series' chronology at which Raiden had already begun his transformation into cyborg form, albeit with a different and somewhat more crude appearance from the one seen in "Metal Gear Solid 4".
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
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"Metal Gear Solid Touch" for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad is a "touch shooting" game that revisits "MGS4"s plot and action through the touch interface. Developers of the game "LittleBigPlanet", Media Molecule, released an expansion pack based on "Metal Gear Solid 4" on December 23, 2008. It includes character skins for Old Snake, Raiden, Meryl, and Screaming Mantis, as well as a "Metal Gear"-themed set of levels.
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
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On June 19, 2008, Konami released the "Metal Gear Solid 4 Database" onto the PlayStation Store in North America and Japan, and one week later on the European store. The Database is a downloadable application for PlayStation 3 that catalogs every piece of "Metal Gear" lore from all the canonical entries in the series released up to "Metal Gear Solid 4" in the form of an encyclopedia (browsable by alphabet and category), a timeline, and character relationship diagrams. Highlighted words in each article link to related articles, and it keeps track of which ones the user has already read. The Database automatically locks any items related to "MGS4", in order to prevent the leaking of spoilers to players who have not completed the game yet. In order to reveal these articles, the user must have a completed "MGS4" game save that was created on the same console and with a version of the game from the same region as their account.
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
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A Limited Edition was released simultaneously with the game's standard edition, as an enhanced counterpart. The limited edition contains "Guns of the Patriots", a box with artwork by Yoji Shinkawa, a Blu-ray Disc containing two "making of" documentaries, and partial game soundtrack containing only songs written by Harry Gregson-Williams. The Limited Edition was available exclusively at GameStop in the United States and EB Games in Canada, while a similar bundle with an additional 6-inch 'Olive Drab' Old Snake Figurine was made available at Play.com in the United Kingdom. It is also included in the 40GB Limited Edition PlayStation 3 "Metal Gear Solid 4" bundle.
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
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The game was publicly announced first at E3 2005, by means of a humorous and slightly abstract gag machinima using characters from "Metal Gear Solid 3", under the slogan of "No Place to Hide". The title was described as "essentially finished" by January 2008 and went through extensive beta testing. At Destination PlayStation on February 26, 2008, Sony announced that "MGS4" would be released worldwide on June 12, 2008, along with the special "MGS4" PlayStation 3 bundle. It was announced that "Guns of the Patriots" is the first PlayStation 3 game that uses a 50GB dual layer Blu-ray Disc even with the use of file compression.
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
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"Guns of the Patriots" is set in 2014, nine years after the events of the original "Metal Gear Solid" and five years after "Sons of Liberty". The world's economy relies on continuous civil wars fought by PMCs, which outnumber government military forces. Soldiers are equipped with nanomachines that monitor and enhance their performance on the battlefield, controlled by a vast network known as the Sons of the Patriots (SOP) system. Liquid Ocelot, missing since the events of "Sons of Liberty", re-emerges from hiding to launch an insurrection against the Patriots.
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots