Konami’s as-yet unannounced Metal Gear Solid 5 will be released by summer 2013 at the very earliest, it has emerged.
Reports stem from mo-cap actor Eric Bossic, who revealed to Silent Haven that he’s just finished some work with Kojima Productions on the stealth-action title.
“My past motion capture session was for an upcoming Metal Gear game, I will be back with [Hideo] Kojima again in the fall, and maybe other sessions. This title is a long way off.”
Quizzed further on the nature of the project, Bossic confirmed that the title is indeed a new Metal Gear game, though made it clear it won’t see the light of day for a while yet.
“I am working on a future metal gear, not to be released until next summer at the earliest, if not later than that. I’m doing motion capture only.”
“I can 100% say my voice will not be involved in this. I don’t even know what the title is, they are all very secretive and sometimes even the scenes I act out I don’t even know the full story, because they want to keep it secret.”
Unsurprisingly however, Bossic said he’s not able to go into any details on the new game, save for the fact it’s definitely in the works. However, as he points out, this has become common knowledge by now, with Kojima-san himself having teased MGS5 for the past year or so.
“I suppose it is fine to mention I am working on it, everybody knows Kojima is making something now, and I posted the photo on my page here with him. The only thing is that I can’t ever answer any questions about it or talk about, not for sometime.”
Previous chatter on MGS5 has suggested a prequel set during the invasion of Normandy in World War II, featuring The Boss and her Cobra Unit. Other rumors suggest a new title with Big Boss in the lead role, set some time after Peace Walker.
Kojima has confirmed that he’ll be making a Metal Gear-related announcement on August 30, so it is expected Metal Gear Solid 5 will be officially unveiled then.