New MGS4 Trailer, New Bosses!
The new Metal Gear Solid 4 trailer shown at the recent GC07 show was posted recently at Kotaku, and the new footage is pretty eyebrow-raising, in a good way. The trailer is set in the same middle eastern setting as in previous trailers, but this time features yet again another militia force being totally taken down by some Metal Gears. But no mere Gekkoes this time… this time we are treated to four of the FREAKIEST mechanical monsters yet seen in Kojima’s games.
The first shown is Crying Wolf, which looks like, well, a mechanical wolf. This beastie is shown stopping a militia bulldozer in its tracks, even overturning the huge vehicle with its powerful jaws. Second, and even freakier, is Laughing Octopus. She (yes, it’s female) appears as a humanoid cyborg/mechanical body with large, long tentacles extending from her head- YIKES. Genuinely scary, Octopus is shown crushing a militiaman in her tentacles with ease. Then there’s Raging Raven, a winged attacker who swoops down low and can grab a man right off the ground. Finally, and perhaps the freakiest, is Screaming Mantis. Appearing as another mechanical humanoid with multiple arms and two small, doll-like humanoids floating beside her, she seems to be a puppet master, taking control of one militiaman and forcing him to kill his own mates before being twisted to death himself by her will.
These four bosses are, according to a Famitsu article, part of a special unit called Beauty and the Beast, and are actually victims of war rather than professional soldiers. They all suffered serious mental or physical afflictions prior to being transformed into these terrifying avatars of destruction.
Longtime MGS fans will probably have noticed that each of these four new bosses is named after an animal which was also the code name of a boss from the original Metal Gear Solid; Decoy Octopus, Sniper Wolf, Vulcan Raven and Psycho Mantis. Coincidence? I think not…
Once again, 2008 seems so far away. Sigh.
Check out the trailer for yourself here.
