Ninja Raiden’s debut at the end of Guns of the Patriots’ E3 2006 trailer took place in the Middle East, but played out like it did in the South America portion of the final game. Other times the same animations are used but play out in a different location, often with different character models. The E3 2006 trailer for Guns of the Patriots featured numerous unused scenes, such as Otacon crying in the helicopter, Liquid Ocelot making a reference to the Biblical story of Cain and Abel, or Old Snake putting a gun to his mouth in some random place in the Middle East. The E3 2000 trailer for Sons of Liberty depicts Snake escaping the sinking Tanker as a playable segment. Nearly every Metal Gear game has trailers that use scenes absent from the final game. Exhibit B: There are scenes shown in trailers that are absent in the final game. It just wasn’t the ending many fans wanted. Unlike Halo 2, however, The Phantom Pain ended as Kojima intended. Halo 2 infamously ended on a cliffhanger, not due to artistic reasons, but because Bungie ran out of time and couldn’t wrap up the story with a final level, leaving players to wait three years and buy a new console to “finish the fight.” Beta versions of Sonic the Hedgehog 2 featured several zones not seen in the final game, though one of them reappeared as an Easter egg in the mobile version remaster. If the mere existence of cut content is proof of The Phantom Pain being unfinished, then practically every game is unfinished by that standard. Sons of Liberty was planned to have a boss dubbed “Old Boy.” The End in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater ended up reusing ideas from the cut character, but that hardly means Sons of Liberty was an unfinished game by this character’s omission.Īs for the playable Battle Gear, we actually have a reason for why it was cut-Kojima was concerned that it threw off the game’s balance. The original Metal Gear Solid was going to feature a character called “El Mariachi” as part of the Codec cast. “Third Sun,” Act 3 of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, was originally going to feature Snake escorting an injured Big Mama through the sewers.Īs cool as seeing an older, traumatized Chico would’ve been, he’s not the first character to go unused in a Metal Gear game.

The Grand Game Plan for Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty outlined many ideas and features that wouldn’t be in the final game. Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake was originally going to have a mass-production Metal Gear model that was cut due to ROM-size limitations. From dreaming of monster hunting to becoming a monster.Ī certain amount of cut content is to be expected during the development of any game.

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