After nearly two decades locked away in PS3 prison, Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots is finally getting ported to literally any other system. Back when the new Master Collection rerelease series was announced, everyone and their mother was holding their breath to see whether it'd eventually include MGS4, and now the day has finally come.
Well, the day will come in about six months, rather. Today, all you can do is watch a trailer.
As a certified Metal Gear Solid 4 enjoyer, I'm beyond elated that more people can play my favorite game in the series without dusting off twenty-year-old hardware or renting a NASA supercomputer to emulate it on. I'm less elated about the wait, but so much of MGS4's gameplay is waiting anyway that it honestly feels thematic.
In between chapters, MGS4 would stop the game in its tracks to install the next chapter from the disc, meaning you'd be looking at an agonizingly long loading screen of Snake smoking every few hours without fail. While I expect the rerelease to remove this weird space-saving feature entirely, you can still relive it (or experience it for the first time) with mgs4.site. It's an authentically recreated MGS4 loading screen counting down to the game's modern rerelease — at the moment, it stands at 178 days, which is about how long those loading screens felt on a first playthrough anyway.
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