Weaponry throughout the Games - Special handguns

Very interesting and peculiar weapons....

Weaponry throughoutt the Games - High Caliber Handguns

These are the most powerful handguns in the game, they sure do pack a  punch but you WILL be noticed and fire will be returned upon you. So make sure you can take them all out quickly....these aren't the most accurate to fire.

Weaponry through the Games - .45 Handguns

These weapons are the more powerful handguns that packa  punch when firing. In the beginning of the game you would focus more on these till you got rifles or the heavier handguns

Weaponry throughout the Games - Light Handguns w/pictures

There are a total 70 weapons in the game, many of which have custom parts which can be purchased from Drebin 893 or found in certain levels. "Drebin" is a person who will take the ID tag lockings off of the guns you pick up and you can sell back any extras that you encounter on the battlefield. For the first time you unlock a gun it costs something but after that you get more money in return. So you end up making a profit for buying ammo and other assortments throught the game.
 This is the widest assortment of weapons usable in any of the Metal Gear games. Most of these do however appear in many of the series installments.

More Controversy...

SO you wont find this anywhere on the net but......apparently when Metal Gear Solid 4 came out, the American Media stations for a brief 15 min of fame talked about the storyline of MGS4. Since most of the game involved control and political corruption and genetics and deciept and plenty of other controversial topics they went crazy and thought that Konami (Kojima produtions mainly) was attacking the goverment. They believed that although set in a fictious universe the fact tha polictics played such a major role in the everyday lives of the people and how the wars and military were regulated for business purpoes and profit the media took defense and started to barrage the game with critisicm for his heresy against america. Mind you this didnt last long as news stations tend to denounce games as being lower then any other media on the market and so proceeded to "kick the dog" as it were to show that they understand that games are big with the ever growing youth and decided to (in my opinion) see if they cant attack it a little more and make it so that the gaming industry stay at the bottom, never to rise up above porn! (bad joke, referencing the fact that they look down upon things that they deem unfit for civilian consumption)

Controversy

Shortly before the release of Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops , someone on the internet discovered a song by Classical Russian composer Georgy Vasilevich Sviridov, named The Winter Road. The Metal Gear community was in an up-roar at how similar the song was to the MGS Theme, and requested the song be shown to Hideo Kojima. Eventually, a YouTube video emerged of a group of people showing the song to Hideo, with Hideo giving a very surprised reaction.



Eventually in an issue of the videogaming magazine "EGM" it was revealed via an interview with Norihiko Hibino that the theme was indeed changed due to the fact that "Konami had legal problems with Russian composers who said [they] stole their music".


The motif was removed from the MGS3 theme on the 20th Anniversary Music Collection (the song switches to "The World Needs Only One Big Boss!" from MGS2, at the point the melody originally began).

As aforementioned, the original Portable Ops theme featured the motif. The song was, however, still used in the game though without the motif, therefore consisting entirely of original music, and appeared on the Portable Ops soundtrack as Show Time.

Code extracted from Super Smash Bros. Brawl showed that this theme was originally supposed to be among the "My Music" tracks, but was later removed, possibly as a result of the controversy. The theme was also not included in Metal Gear Solid 4, although Harry Gregson-Williams' new motif (originally used in MGS3) was remixed by him as an independent song, carrying the title Metal Gear Saga.

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The man is simply astounding but his work ethic is even more amazing. The mentality this man has for his games, for the storytelling, the passion that goes into his work; he's so dedicated. He was very stressed working on Metal Gear Solid 4 because of the new platform he was working on, all new technology and the art team and the coding team were going back and forth and telling each other they couldn't do something. The whole process was very frustrating. Listen to what the interview between 1Up and Hideo Kojima says:

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