Found these 2 scans from a french magazine called "Joypad" on this site: http://mscans.wordpress.com/ It's talking about the 1997 E3 (MGS was released by the end of 1998). Could someone please translate the article for us? As you can see, it's very different from the released game. Anyone has more info on this beta ? (more pics / info / dev. status)
organize intelligently, avoid confrontation to do well in your mission, you ll have high-tech equipment at your disposal quiteness and discretion are necessary in order to beat the Fox Hound lieutenants A GAME OF ESPIONAGE DEVELOPED BY THE CREATORS OF SNATCHER AND POLICENAUTS! this is the translation. I used to have some scans of MGS in a magazine, from in-game footage that had bilinear filtering on it. Might it have been n64? It might have, judging from the screens.
I seen these scans and more on several spanish mags. I remember they said there was going to be a N64 version too, but maybe ninty paid them to say that...
I don't think that the PSX can do any sort of filtering to smooth up the textures. It looks more like goraud shading to me which it can do and if done right can be just as good as smoothed textures.
Here's the site with the links to those videos, and more beta stuff. Pretty cool. http://www.unseen64.tk/
It's surely not PSX, but it might not be N64 either. The videos I've seen of it seemed to be too clear (texture shading, I mean) and to have too high a poly count to be N64. I think it may have been some sort of mockup on a PC that they used to test gameplay concepts.
Here you go: The star game of this show is not about zombies but an overtrained commando facing terrorists!Ten years after its first appearance on MSX, Metal Gear is about to change the 32bits era and the Playstation.An exceptional game. In a near future, deep into Alaska, a group of terrorrists called the FoxHounds are taking control of an american secret base where nuclear weapons are stored and threatens the USA.The president has but one way to resolve the crisis:send his best guy, Solid Snake, an elite commando former FoxHound member. Your mission is simple:sneak into the the base and clean it by using your brain and your gun before the end of the generous 24 hours delay issued by the terrorists. A new game concept The progammer's will was to give the player an extraordinary realistic world, believable in its least details and to recreate in the more accurately possible meaning the environment of an commando black-op. The developers team has even required the help of several members of the american secret services. As a result, the game is a mix of adventure, espionage, tactical and action. You will meet many characters having all a distinct background and behavior. Betrayal and friendship will be part of the story, providing a great story with multiple developments. You will also have access to gear and fighting abilities that a hardened ninja would die for. But running around and shooting frenzy won't get you anywhere except in a body bag! Alone against all, you must proceed with extreme caution, use the field and its shadows to hide or to sneak unnoticed behind your foes. Resident evil at power 10000? Technically, Metal Gear looks like a Resident Evil on drugs: décor, characters, objects and shadows are in realistic and detailed in full 3d never before seen on Playstation.The lightnings and special effects are impressive and in real time. The ambient is set. The game uses a fixed camera wich change the point of view according to the situation. I can't make sense of the end of the article as the scan isn't complete, there is a comparison with another game but its name remains a mistery...
