if this script had been given the green light.
#METAL GEAR SNAKE ESCAPE SERIES#
Yeah shocking, right? Well, he also plans on "removing certain genetic limitations, and retaining the benefit of the memories and experiences of the original subject."Īfter this revelation, it's interesting to think just how closely the Metal Gear series could have followed Escape from L.A. The new hardware probably made this harder because it made people look more realistic. Metal Gear (Japanese:, Hepburn: Metaru Gia) is a series of techno-thriller stealth games created by Hideo Kojima.Developed and published by Konami, the first game, Metal Gear, was released in 1987 for MSX home computers. The original plan was to make his look different enough from Solid Snake to make players wonder if he really was or wasnt the iconic character. Not only does the script describe several characters with super-human abilities, it also reveals that the movie's antagonist clones Snake in an attempt to create the world's most elite soldiers. In concept art for Metal Gear Solid 2, Iroquois Pliskin was blonde. Solid Snake fights his way through Zanzibar. Taken to the newly independent Zanzibar Land, their leader hopes to extend dominance over the world through control of the vital resource. Metal Gear Solid, Solid Snakes coup de grace, reinvigorated a series not seen since the late 80s, bringing it to a new height of cultural acceptance on the Playstation. Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake (Set in 1999) Solid Snake is pulled back into action after a scientist with the solution to the worlds growing oil problem is kidnapped.
The site posted pieces of the script, and it's pretty amazing reading it as you can imagine several parts that could have easily have fit into a Metal Gear game. In Metal Gear Solid, Solid Snake became one the best heroes in video games history. Aint it Cool News recently won an eBay auction for a previously unreleased and unapproved Escape from L.A. It's never been a secret that Hideo Kojima's Metal Gear Solid series was inspired by Kurt Russell's Snake and his exploits trying to escape a few cities, but we never really knew how close those similarities are until now.