Metal Gear Solid 2 Sons of Liberty Trailer (a look back) Part 1

Don't mind me, I'm just a Cardboard Box taking a walk.

As I play through Metal Gear Solid 2, I figured I'd point some things out in a few posts on my blog. I've found 2 trailers from the game.

A trailer made from a nearly final version of the game

http://youtube.com/watch?v=1HwixCQGYiU

This trailer has some establishing shots for locations that aren't in the game. There's one shot of water pouring into the corridors of the tanker that's not in the final game as well. This trailer shows only parting shots of Raiden, but you can hear his voice.

8 minute trailer (early-middle development)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=_eF1YEGYpgw&mode=related&search=

This is the famous trailer that was shown around the world and got standing ovations everywhere. It's all in Japanese with English subtitles. Since this trailer was made during mid-way point of MGS2's development, there are a few things different from the actual game.

~The guards don't move around in signal file like that. They act more independently in the final game than some of the shots in the trailer.

~Snake never gets his hands on a machine-type weapon in the final version of the Tanker Incident.

~The body in the locker is located in a different locker than the one in the trailer.

~This trailer shows some of the subplot/game that was cut out of the final game. This subplot dealt with Snake running from water rushing into the ship. Snake would have to run all the way back to topside without getting overrun with water. Guards would also attempt to avoid the water as well, as the ship sank. I would have really liked to have seen this in the final game.

~When Snake says, “Otacon, this is bad”, he says it on topside. Yet, in the final game, he says a modified line like this only in the tanker hold.