Damn, Hideo and crew went ballistic in planning this game. I remember this game was what made me go buy a PS2, I was holding out until this and GT3 were out. I broke down and bought a PS2 early, when the MGS2 demo was released. (Anybody else, go out and buy "Zone of Enders, just for the MGS2 demo?) This is one of my top ten games of all time, and now I have a few new reasons to add as why. A few things I found interesting about the plan that would been awesome if they had implemented:

"After an injured soldier has received treatment (lasting a set period of time) in a medical room, they will return to the game field. The area of the body where they were injured will be covered in a bandage texture. If you attack a medical facility, you can prevent this from happening again. (The underlined section has been dropped.) "

A battle that takes place on Wall Street (at Federal Hall) – Snake versus Ocelot (controlled by Liquid’s right arm), and Raiden versus Solidus. Surrounding them are spectators and police officers, including mounted police. All in real-time.

Also interesting to note how the plot was changed in places:

1) Rescuing the President
Encounter with Solidus
The President dies (rescue fails)
2) Meet up with bomb squad
Defuse C4s planted inside plant
Underwater defusal
3) Destroy Metal Gear RAY
Deactivate PAL
Rescuing Emma
Snake is tortured (making it
appear as if he has died), Raiden is tortured (using sodium pentathol)
Emma dies
4) Eliminate Dead Cell
The real leader (Solidus)
AI Room (the President’s security team)

The S3 Plan (the Patriots’ plan)
Destroy AI Room (the President’s security team)
Olga
Gurlukovich’s confession
5) The finale
Battle with Metal Gear RAY
Arsenal activated (goes on a rampage)
6) Destroy Arsenal
Plant C4s
Explosion
Escape
7) Eliminate Solidus
Boat chase
Battle on Wall Street (sword fight)
Note: The years in which the game takes place will not be specified in the game.

Mantis Mode
A type of hidden mode. By equipping an item called ‘Mantis’s Mask’, obtainable in the main game, you will be able to read peoples’ (enemies’) minds. If the player equips it during a repeat play-through, they will be able to better understand characters’ lies. It will have no effect on the story, however. We will record separate voice covering both the player wearing and not wearing the mask. We will also look into making this work with the captions as well. As the game has a complex story (full of betrayal and such), one of the objectives of this mode is to
make the story easier to understand for players who will not understand all of it in just one playthrough.

Two Player Versus Mode
This will be a mode for split-screen two player battles in certain areas from the game. It will be compatible with system link-up as well. Players can either fight each other or play a hide-and-seek type game. An examination of successful titles in America makes it clear that this an essential mode for this type ofgame.

The offshore plant’s aquarium
There is an area at the bottom of the offshore plant surrounded by glass walls, with all the marine life inhabiting the waters off New York visible outside. It is here that the player can stop to observe this marine life, though it has no bearing on the game itself. It is also possible to obtain information on them from Doc. The player does not need to come here in repeat play-throughs. In addition, the player will be able to virtually explore the ocean floor through a remote-controlled minisub, and can also save pictures taken with its camera.

Raiden’s girlfriend. She recently started working as a news anchor for a New York City cable TV station. Well versed in the world of finance, she attends night classes at NYU’s School of Business and wants to become a stock trader.
Her parents are famous independent hedge fund traders. She happens to be at the offshore plant on a news assignment the day of the incident and is taken captive. Held in the hostage area, she manages to secretly contact Raiden. However, she constantly just misses Raiden throughout the game, with the two never actually meeting. He is not able to save her. This part of the game develops like a love story, like the one in the film Aizen katsura. As they never meet, this will make the player wonder whether she is real or just an AI construct.

And, the detail in the back story is amazing:

The exercise that took place at Shadow Moses was a failure, the technology to launch a stealth warhead by rail gun still incomplete. Ocelot and Solidus covered up this fact in the MO disc’s data, purposefully leaking false data to the countries of the world in order to bring back worldwide nuclear deterrence. The leaking of the Shadow Moses incident was also done on purpose (which is why Nastasha’s book was allowed to be published).

Everything was done for the purpose of advancing the Arsenal Metal Gear Project. Solidus leaked the disc’s data with the knowledge that countries like Iraq and North Korea will never complete a Metal Gear.

The tanker was actually Arsenal Ship, disguised to hide its true nature. Arsenal Ship had moved into Phase IV and was in the middle of a test exercise. Its true objective was not only the transport of the new Metal Gear, but this test exercise as well. The commander of the operation was the Marine Corps Commandant, who both devised and advanced the project. The Arsenal Ship Program had reemerged after the failure of the REX Project, but Solidus, wanting to move the Arsenal Gear Project (headed up by the Navy) forward, kills the Commandant and sinks the prototype ship to the bottom of the ocean. The REX Project was the brainchild of both the Chief of Naval Operations and the Chief of Staff of its antithesis, the Army. In order to give Arsenal, which possesses no attack ability itself, anti-submarine defensive capabilities, it is loaded with the amphibious Metal Gear RAY. Solidus and Ocelot’s real objective was to scuttle the ship and put an end to the project.
Connections to the previous game
The Arsenal Ship Program, initiated in 1996, initially fell through in 1998. ArmsTech, the company behind the REX Project, lost its bid to build Arsenal Ship at Phase II. Wanting to advance (obtain funding for) the REX Project, ArmsTech, led by Kenneth Baker, were able to win over the DARPA Chief, Donald Anderson, and assassinate the proponent of Arsenal Ship, the 25th CNO. Arsenal Ship was the CNO’s pet project. However, the revelation of the Shadow Moses incident put an end to the REX Project, and Arsenal Ship resurfaced under the Marine Corps, who carried it to Phase IV.

In addition to its decontamination faculties, the offshore plant was also built to extract all the heavy metals (minerals), such as lithium and nickel, which are constantly leaked into the harbor’s water from the manganese nodules on the seabed. Its purpose is not only to clean up the oil, but to excavate the massive
amounts of natural resources present in the water as well. This top-secret, ground-breaking technology has profound implications for the future of the country. It is even said that gold can be extracted from seawater. The inexhaustible supply of gold this could mean would have an incalculable effect on the global economy.

I think that Hollywood should just give him a director's hat, a casting call, access to Skywalker Ranch or WETA, and $200 million dollars for a budget. Then set him loose and see what happens.

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