Eccentric Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima is down in the dumps, and it's all the fault of those rotten bullies at Rockstar. No, they've not nicked his lunch money, they've released a trailer for the hotly anticipated PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC version of Grand Theft Auto V and it looks amazing.
For Kojima, beavering away on his own next generation open-world opus, Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, apparently the lush graphics on display have made him realise he needs to work even harder.
"Rockstar is going in a very different direction to what I'm trying to create," he told CVG. "When we say we're an open-world game it makes it sound like it's trying to be the same as what those guys are creating. But this is very different I'm trying to do a free infiltration game."
So The Phantom Pain isn't open-world in the sense that it'll have a vast city to roam around in, but it's still raised the bar in terms of detailed game environments. "What Rockstar has created and the world they have created is super impressive," Kojima admits. "Actually when I saw the PS4 version a few days ago I got depressed again. And this is not game design-related, it's just me. The quality that they showed in the PS4 trailer was really impressive."
Grand Theft Auto V is out now for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, and is coming to Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and PC later this year. Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain doesn't have a release date yet, but you can play its prequel, Ground Zeroes, right now.
Published: 18/06/2014
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