MGS4 hopes you have lots of time

Here’s hoping that if you happen to have bought the 20GB PlayStation 3, have quite a few of the recent titles that require Hard Drive installs and are wanting Metal Gear Solid 4, that you have a bit of space left over. Oh, and that you get comfortable when you’re playing through Snake’s adventure, because it’s going to be a long trip.

A display box for Konami’s stealth game has popped up in stores, and on the back it proclaims that MGS4 will require – yes, require – a 4.6GB installation in order to play. Now before you shout “display box, duh”, note that GTA IV’s display box also detailed the game’s eventual install a few weeks ahead of time, which turned out to be true. So, that’s not a astronomically huge amount of space, but if you’ve got yourself a large collection of games and have the small end Hard Drive…you’re likely creeping up on empty, no?

Now, why the mandatory install? Oh, I don’t know. Could be to reduce the load times… and to help make some of the 90-minute cutscenes more enjoyable. Yeah…the legendary Metal Gear in-game movies return, and some of the folks that have reviewed it are reporting that a few (note, this means individual FMV’s) clock in at over an hour and half long. Good news, though, is that Kojima has implemented a feature where you can pause, stop and skip past these epic sections of non-interactive gameplay. Oh gee, thanks.

[Update]: According GamePro’s Sid Shuman, the 90-minute cut-scene talk is a mere rumor that was misunderstood.

    I’ve completed the game twice, and am the author of the forthcoming [GamePro] review. Ninety-minute-long cinemas in MGS4 sounds like an exaggeration. Like the other MGS games, MGS4 definitely has a cinematic quality. And yes, some of the cut-scenes in the game are elaborate and occasionally lengthy. But not a one, to my recollection, even approaches 90 minutes.

    I think it’s safe to say that the ‘90 minute cinemas’ claim is a pretty big exaggeration.

Interesting. After MGS2’s 45-minute sequences, the move to a 50GB Blu-ray Disc seems just the place for a 90-minute HD cinematic. I wonder if these reviewers were playing the same game? I guess we’ll see in just a few weeks. 

MGS4 hopes you have lots of time, and HDD space

Source: By Talking About Games  at http://talkingaboutgames.com/

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