To mark the 20th anniversary of the original Metal Gear Solid game, a fan has remade the game’s 1998 intro movie in Unreal Engine 4.
Here’s the original:
And here’s the remake:
The scene was remade by Erasmus Brosdau, who completely revamped the visuals and even cleaned up some of the audio and added some minor edits and visual flourishes.
For more Metal Gear Anniversary fun, check out the 31 pieces of artwork by various artists selected by Jordan Vogt-Roberts, who is set to direct the upcoming Metal Gear Solid movie.
Vogt-Roberts recently spoke on the challenges of bringing a story like Metal Gear Solid to life.
“The thing about Metal Gear is it’s intentionally sprawling and it’s intentionally dense,” he said in a Collider interview. “It’d be super easy to do one sliver of it or do too much at once. And we’ve spent the last little bit really trying to figure out, to me, the most Kojima-san inspired way to tackle as much of that story through a device that I think allows you to tap in…how to put this without spoiling it?”
“Regardless, we have a device that I think allows us to respect the breadth of the franchise, respect the sprawling nature of the franchise, respect the somewhat convoluted nature of the franchise at times,” he continued. “But to still show you the mirrors. What I mean by that is all those timelines fundamentally exist because they show the repetition of war throughout time. They show the repetition and the cycle of pain throughout time. So it’s almost impossible to tell just one story now. You need the full throughline of what this.”