Metal Gear Philanthropy

Been following the project since the first next gen trailer was released. Finished watching it a few hours ago. It's been getting a lot of press in comparison to other MGS fan films. Other notable works are Metal Gear: Outer Heaven and Metal Gear Solid: Mongoose incident. This one being around as long asthe other two but released later, and having a higher budget and pretty much backed by kojima staff, including the vocalist from MGS1.

I am impressed with the final result and a little irked by the fact there has been a multiple year wait for an hour long episode, when we were led to beleive this was a complete film, does this mean the next one will be released soon? or in the next few years, if ever? Cast was done well, combat scenes were chronographed well with military advisement. The script tries to make the game narrative style more film friendly than it's peer's in the fan film community, and that's good, the film flows well.

All in all the film was good, better than it's rivals. But I still feel underwhelmed considering the hype and advertising of it all. I hope they do complete the film and we get to see how it all turns out. Metal Gear Genesis was canned before completion of the final episode, i'd hate to see that happen to this project.


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Metal Gear Solid: Philanthropy from Hive Division on Vimeo.