Playstation Kojima is a sly old dog.

[DLFlux]

So with the speculation of Raiden taking up the lead role for the Next MGS game, and then this:

US, March 26, 2009 - The Hideo Kojima Keynote at GDC was a hilarious speech that covered the entire scope of the Metal Gear franchise and everything that designing the series entailed. With graphics that featured a conceptual Snake leaping, climbing and occasionally falling from stumbling blocks, it was truly entertaining. However, there was definitely something that stood out towards the end of the presentation. As Kojima was mentioning the distinction between Japanese designer driven games and Western technology driven games, he mentioned that he felt that a combination of the two methods should be used. He stated that this was the direction that he felt Metal Gear should go, and as the animation played out, a frame stopped with large letters stating: the next MGS. The startling thing was standing behind these words – a conceptual figure of Raiden stood behind this phrase with his back turned towards the screen. It was tiny, but it was distinctly the cyber ninja.

Could this mean that Raiden will definitively be the focus or the hero for the next Metal Gear Solid game? Plenty of speculation has raged online since Metal Gear Solid 4, primarily because so much was made about the end of Snake. While there obviously were no details given in the keynote, simply having Raiden present is a large tipoff to the direction of the new game. It also raises another question: could this potentially be the game that Kojima mentioned yesterday in his interview with us? Time will tell, and we'll bring whatever news is announced at E3 about Kojima's next project.

It seems he had us all fooled. It was nothing more than an April Fools.

Take a look:

Everyone remember the last week's Hideo Kojima keynote at GDC, right? At the end of it, a news emerged that the next Metal Gear game may include Raiden as the main character. A small Raiden artwork was shown in the presentation slide and people loved the news, many websites including us posted it.

Well, today, at April Fools day, the truth is here!

It was actually not a Raiden artwork, but one of Colonel Cambell. See the cane he's holding...

Not enough? You can check the official Kojima Productions April Fools Colonel Raiden Cambell trailer at this link.

He got us good.

Trailer:

 

[Gray Fox]

That bitch....great prank though. I'd play a game staring Campbell. Especially in his glory days as "Chicken Fox".

 

[SaShman]

Haha, Kojima seems to really enjoy fucking with our heads. I've never been able to figure out what his actual plans for the MGS games are until a few months before they are released.

 

[Big Casino]

Haha ah well im glad anyway, Raidens story came to a good ending at the end of mgs4 i thought so its good theyre not gunna make him the next main character.

 

[Gingerbread Lesbian]

I still want a Raiden story ;_;...I don't see how IGN got Raiden now when you look at that black and white image, it looks like Cambell when you know who it is >.>
I liked the video though, twas epic 8D