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Gamer's Hideout is having a special MGS4 pre-order program where the first 100 customers will get a nice MGS4 bag, t-shirt and patch. Also, you'll be entered into a lucky draw where the top prize of a 32-inch Samsung LCD TV is up for grabs!

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Actually the exclusive pre-order plan will only start at the late night. At the noon~evening time that will be some activities and showcase of Konami games which including some casual tournament and gameplay.

This will be the first looks of the pre-order card(only front side, the back part need some amendment), still its might have some changes:
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You can only obtain it from Tech Asia counter once we got it ready. The bottom part will be tear off for lucky draw purpose, total 10 lucky drawer will gain the chance to bought LE at normal edition price.

Thats few more goodies if you pre-order it from Tech Asia, everything will be confirm within this few days.

Regards.

Sound like it's coming along nicely, should still be a Mar/Apr release then.

Not Mar/Apr ... Q2, 2008 means around June-August 2008.

Oops. I just can't wait. 

Q2 not quarter 2? april to jun?

heck, if they can release by 2008 i aredi dem happy liao

CHOY!~
ur mouth dun be so busuk... later really 2009....

If Q2... then gives me more time to save money 2 buy PS3. hopefully PS3 is slightly cheaper at that time.

MGS4 Almost Done, Says Kojima Productions

On the latest episode of the Kojima Productions Report podcast, Associate Producer Ryan Payton announced some news that'll warm the hearts of every eager Metal Gear fan the world over: Metal Gear Solid 4 is almost done, and won't slip past the second quarter.

"We are on the eve of entering the bug-checking phase, which means that we're pretty far along," Payton said. Bugs not withstanding (and with a few pieces, such as the opening cinematic, still missing), the game can already be played "from start to finish." While Payton said it's standard practice at Kojima Productions to continue to add and refine features even as close to weeks from finalizing the code, they are now mostly in the bug-squashing phase.

Payton, who was joined on this episode by recently departed 1UP alumnae Mark MacDonald, also assured that MGS4 -- which last year slipped past it's end of 2007 release date into 08 -- would not be slipping again. "We're committed to this quarter-two release date, this release time-frame," Payton said. "Mr. Kojima, of all people, is committed to it, because he really hates to disappoint people. And I know that he is embarrassed by what happened with the 2007 slip into 2008."

That's not to say that a specific release date is set, though, despite those listed by retailers and banding about in Internet rumors. "We're still going back and forth with marketing about when we're going to do the release -- it's going to be a simultaneous worldwide release," Payton said. "It's not going to be the same day, but more like what Halo's done, where it's the same week. We're still trying to strategize it, and make sure it works for all territories. Any date you're seeing is just speculation."

Payton also expressed his hopes that MGS4's second-quarter release will help break the stranglehold the fall quarter has on video game releases. "This could be a big opportunity, you know, second quarter, to prove to retailers and other publishers that you can have a huge hit in those months, that people are willing to play games just as they're willing to go to movies."

And lastly, while it has nothing to do with release time-frames, there was one last bit of great MGS4 news: you'll be able to pause cut-scenes. Rejoice, young, stalwart gamer, for no more will you have to sit uncomfortably through a lengthy, unexpected cut-scene while nature calls.

Link:
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Finally, Konami is not setting MGS4 to a solid release date just yet, but they are giving hint for an announcement coming late February, which is around the time of the Game Developer's Conference from February 18th-22nd.

So it is good to see something regarding MGS4 coming from CES, but going from Konami's word, something concrete should be coming a month from now.

hopefully ps3 will come out with bundle pack together with mgs4... after that, i will buy ps3.. heheheehh

I always wanter a purple PS3

There's one small feature - inconsequential, really - that we noticed during our playtest of the next Metal Gear Solid that really sums the game up. Maybe even the whole series. At certain moments during cut-scenes, when a familiar character appears or there's a reference to some past event, a button prompt appears in the corner of the screen. But it's not an invitation to skip (although you can - and for the first time, you can skip codec conversations, too). It's not some kind of simon-says scripted action moment, or 'cineractive', in the uniquely horrible term coined for them this year. No: it's a flashback button.

Another new feature to help you as you pick your way through the maps is the 'threat ring'. Not unlike the sound indicator in the PSP's Portable Ops, this is a faint white ring that surrounds Snake and distorts and quivers in the direction of enemies making noise. It's a really elegant and beautifully realised graphical device that goes some way towards giving you a real sense of spatial awareness without the need for a top-flight surround sound system.

The new stress meter - replacing the stamina meter from Snake Eater - was present and correct, and succeeded in stressing us out as we watched it creep up with every noisy blunder and awkward scuffle with the guards, although its precise impact on gameplay wasn't quite clear. The Close Quarters Combat unarmed fighting system returns in modified form, and felt more smooth and powerful than before.

By and large, in terms of features and controls at least, Guns of the Patriots feels more like traditional MGS than Snake Eater or Portable Ops did. Uninterrupted by the heavy menu usage and elaborate gameplay systems of both those games, it's a tense, exacting, crisp and relatively fast-paced stealth thriller, with a stop-start rhythm that harks all the way back to 1998. Its departures from what we expect of Metal Gear don't come in the form of some arcane new mechanic; they're more subtle, more general, but perhaps more fundamental.

The "no place to hide" strapline is a bit disingenuous - in this demo at least, there were places to hide absolutely everywhere. But the feeling of cover was much more fragile, and the option of shooting your way out much more realistic. Guns of the Patriots bring action to the fore more than any Metal Gear Solid to date has dared to. Snake is tooled to the nines with heavy hardware, and allowed to use it without necessarily having to run for cover in a querulous flap afterwards.

That will come as a relief to many players, but we're not 100 percent sure it's a good thing, yet. The fact is that the nine-year-old template for this game was not conceived as a full-bore shooter, and the controls and camera can't really cope with the action. Aiming is maddeningly imprecise, lock-on has a mind of its own, and the camera moves with a vague inertia which works nicely for taking in the view, but not for flicking around a battlefield quickly. It's messy, frankly, and the game feels much better when playing with the painstaking, inch-at-a-time precision you had to in previous instalments.

One thing you needn't worry about: Guns of the Patriots looks stunning. There are far more expansive, varied and showy game environments out there, it's true - the setting is almost drab in its realism - but the characters and their costumes are rendered and animated with an exquisite eye for detail, understated style and perfect, disbelief-suspending finish. Old Snake has the smouldering, craggy dignity of a Connery or Redford, and he's not even real. Metal Gear Solid has always been one of the sexiest game series, and Guns of the Patriots is just dripping with spy-fetish cool.

bundle means special edition? with the MGS pic printed on PS3 box...

Yup. something like this:


but I'm hoping MGS4 bundle would be much sleeker....probably with camo art. Best lead so far is this link: HERE

Lets pray for MGS4 bundle...actually i dun really care bout the price anymore! For MGS4 bundle, i will sacrifice!..hehehe..worth it. BTW, u guys think they will bundle with 40GB or 80GB or both? Hmmm if they have both, i would rather take the 80GB bcos of the chrome  lining OMG!! elegant!! sexy !! if 40GB version is only normal dead silver color...

obviously you have not even WATCHED,HELD, SMELLED the 40 gigs model.

tell me, who is the woman on the heli behind ocelot?