14 DAY TRIAL // Video game publisher Konami has announced that it will celebrate 25 years of history for the Metal Gear Solid franchise by adding art from the first game in the series, the sequel Sons of Liberty and the fourth title in the franchise to the exhibition “The Art of Video Games,” which is now open at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
The exhibition will include both images and video clips from the three video games and will allow fans of the series and anyone who visits the museum to get an insight into how the hit video game series was created.
Tomoyuki Tsuboi, who is the president of Konami Digital Entertainment, stated, “The Metal Gear Solid franchise has enjoyed an amazing 25 year history of award winning content and die-hard fans.
“It's an honor to share new artwork from our classic Metal Gear Solid games at such a ground-breaking exhibition like 'The Art of Video Games'.”
The series launched first in Japan and then in the United States in 1987 and has single-handedly created the stealth action genre while also managing to remain one of its leading exponents 25 years later.
The games have been created by Hideo Kojima and managed to combine very serious themes, like nuclear war and the responsibilities of soldiers, with deep mechanics and moments of humor.
At the moment the Platinum Games development team is working, with Kojima Productions in a supervising role, on Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, a game focused on the character of Raiden.
The game will be more action-oriented than previous titles in the series and will be released this year on home consoles.
Hideo Kojima has suggested that his own team is currently working on a stealth-based video game that uses the Metal Gear universe, but he has so far refused to confirm that a new Snake-powered game is in development.