Game Design, Metal Gear Solid, Music, Playstation 3
No Metal Gear Solid Theme in MGS4: What Gives?
One of the most celebrated films in all of dork-dom is this little space opera called Star Wars. Maybe you’ve heard of it? Arguably the most infectious part of the entire movie was the music composed by maestro John Williams, punctuated by a series of themes that still resonate throughout society a generation later. While maybe not as widely-known as Star Wars’s intro, there are few video gamers who haven’t heard the Metal Gear Solid theme, which was present in all of the series’ PlayStation and PS2 iterations. So gamers were understandably surprised when the theme was absent from the fourth game in the series, Guns of the Patriots. While composer Harry Gregson-William’s score met—maybe even surpassed, in my opinion—the standards of the previous games, the main theme’s truancy left many gamers befuddled.
Well, befuddle no more, fair readers, as the answer has emerged from its cardboard box hiding place: accusations of plagiarism!
On Friday morning, Konami released a mysterious photo teasing about a new installment in the Metal Gear series, and the message boards have been overrun with rumors ever since. The teaser truly reveals nothing, combining the series’ iconic exclamation marks with the universal “power on” symbol, all of which is set on a jet-black background. Seems like a standard release teaser, right? But it’s the ad’s use of neon green—a color commonly associated with the Xbox brand—that has further ignited the already-flaming rumors that Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots will soon be adorning Microsoft’s console. Could this be true, or is Hideo Kojima once again messing with gamers’ minds?
