Metal Gear Solid: Rising

Ahh yes. One of my favorite series has finally made its debut on Xbox 360. Aren’t you Microsofties lucky? If you’ve followed the story arc at all, you’ll know that MGS had a predominant character as Solid Snake and the entire series was surrounded by the storyline from his perspective. And all four MGS games built an established franchise of what it is today. Of course, during Guns of the Patriot, there was already some segue on the character Raiden and his “mysterious” look. I had figured that if there was any other spin-off, that it would be his story.

And go figure. Here it is. There is a huge hole in the storyline for Raiden between the second and fourth games where he actually becomes a cyborg and meets Big Mama. I assume that this either is during that time period, or it’s after MGS:GotP and would play the prior story later on in another game. After all, Kojima has done this before with the MGS timeline by skipping around.

Cool part? There’s more to the story and Hideo Kojima keeps building to this franchise. This will definitely be worth the wait if his past direction is any indication of this series’ success.