That's neat. Always fun to have these crossovers. The Jak and Daxter/ Ratchet and Clank stuff is always nice.

Can't wait to unlock this crap, yo!

Akanubon

@excaliburps: ...And before you know it, we're wrapped up in another flaming war over what is slowly becoming a new SSBB trend. Game character cameos best used tastefully, and sparingly, IMO.

For example, what the hell was up with that one shirtless guy on his knees in Halo 3?

Elite Wombat

If snake appeared on Smash... would it be too crazy to think there could be some sort of Smash Bros reference in-game?

Alex_Mexico

live-action Zelda April Fools joke confirmed to be true too.

man.. that'll just be terrible

manabu

Uh... kay. That's different. Guess this mean Snake's gunna have to sneak into a church and then be forced to relive his genetic memories from past lives. Would that mean he'd be running around an 8 bit world while wearing a monk's robe?

Salen

Every IP crossover makes perfect sense in comparison to Vader/Yoda in Soul Calibur 4.

Zsinj

Its a pretty good gag as considering that Snakes job is to take out Liquid. Its AC for the 21st century, and then some!

shaunomacx

I read soemthing about how the whole patriots/templars deal si similar, so they put this in the game as a nod to it.

would be even more weird if they acknoledged the games as being in the same universe/timeline.

kommanderk

uh... ok . . . :s

Shad0X

@excaliburps: Dante's in SMT: Nocturne, if anyone is interested.

JonC

Nice little easter egg here. I wish more developers would do cross stuff like this. Just makes stuff a bit more fun.

VonDante

kojima is working on ac2

Jogfrog

It's a nice nod to Assassin's Creed. I wonder what throwback to Metal Gear Solid we'll probably see in Creed's sequel? At least Kojima is one of the few developers to acknowledge other great franchises within his games. Did something similar with Ape Escape as well.

KeroseneClimax

@Demaar:
It's already out in Japan. Since November '07 (360 version) and January '08 (PS3 version... Don't ask me why there's such a difference in release).

Cross-overs are always fun, though.

BPMζ

@ShaggE: Forgot to add: ALL games need a "groups of scholars" feature.

Madden: Keep the opposing team away by hiding in a group of scholars walking toward the endzone.

Need for Speed: They can't ram you if your car is in the middle of a group of scholars!

Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego: You'll never know, because she's hiding IN A GROUP OF SCHOLARS!

ShaggE

Hey! Now this is nice stuff! Would be awesome if other companies allowed their IPs to cross-over. Dante/Nero to Too Human?! Kratos in Heavenly Sword? Yeah it wouldn't make much sense but who cares!

What would be more awesome is if they made some gameplay tweaks along with the skin change. Make Altair/SnakeTair be able to do Parkour...

It is a bit weird why they (Konami & Ubi) did this though. Hmm wonder what's in it for Konami...Ubi certainly reaps the good publicity from this. MGS4 really doesn't need that much push.

Yeah AC wasn't that good of a game. It's like a very pretty,acrobatic date that can only do one thing good...you eventually tire of it.

On a side note: Maybe this is a conspiracy from a hidden Kojima-Jade Raymond romance! You heard it here first!
=D

excaliburps

This must be extremely flattering for Jade Raymond and the AC team..

Rask

Oh Luke, no one writes news stories quite like you. I assume that Assassin's Creed is either coming out soon in Japan (= cross promotion) or soon enough after MGS4 that a sequel will benefit from the pimpage.

Really though, the how and why don't really matter to me. It's a cool, and not really out of place, bonus.

Demaar

wow wonder if they'll do some sort of trade for the next assassins creed or something from ubi soft

karmakid

awesome! jsute like the tuxido in mgs 1

Astroth

Pretty sweet. Would be even sweeter if it replaced the boxes with groups of scholars. :D

ShaggE

ohh no ...Time Paradox Begins (ala MGS 3)

nekotails

Awesome!!!

smashfanDS

I can actually picture kojima pointing at the press saying "na na na na na naaa, we are not telling you hoooow >=D"

@manabu: oh please, dont even think about it...

Grey Gecko

Agreed - this is a good fun thing for devlopers to do - after all, turns out this gaming thing used to be about FUN - not politics.

Crab_Botherer

Pretty obvious this was going to be a real thing. I doubt they'd go through the effort of creating the assets for an April Fools joke. It takes time to produce high-res assets for games these days, they wouldn't bother if they weren't going to do something with em.

Atheist Jew

That's awesome.
Hopefully it isn't the only suit.

tehFluffz

Very cool. Nice to see a little easter egg like this pop in without the usual legal hand wrangling.

Dragonzigg

AC team always talked about how they LOOOOOOVE MGS games and when came out they became friendly with Kojima productions... so it's kinda a friends thing giving gamers a little bonus

JimmyHACK

I think this is Kojima-san's way of asking Jade Raymond out on a date.

Insomnia Bob

@excaliburps: Everything's subjective but I thought Assassin's Creed was an excellent game.

Nexus6

looking forward to the MGS4 Bundle, its going to be my first non-nintendo system. anyone know how easy it is going to be to get ahold of one of these? is sony planning on making this a limited edition release?

TP/\C SHKR

I remember a video where Jade Raymond seemed particularly excited after meeting Kojima, so she must be pretty thrilled about this (but then, who wouldn't be?).

And the whole thing is somewhat appropriate: a nod from the master of stealth to the latest member of the family. Now, if Altair had been a major character in MGS4, I might have had a problem.
Unless he replaced Raiden.
("Ladies and gentlemen, I give you: cyborg-ninja-assassin Altair to the rescue!")

Anything that adds to the replay value is nice. All the better if it's a cool-looking outfit.
If this were Team Ninja, we'd have to pay for it. Oh my, what am I saying? MGS by Team Ninja? To quote my very first English teacher: goodness gracious me...

Antiterra

oh and kojima's team was also depressed for a couple days after AC's release because they felt disappointed.

kitenai

not only do jade and her team have a huge respect for kojima, kojima was also stated as being humbled by their team when they saw assassin's creed's animation system. kojima's team was actually working on something more dynamic such as AC's but found it too difficult and gave up on it.

kitenai

When I hear about cross publisher collaborations like this... it's obvious the publishers are hoping for cross-pollination of the stealth genre crowd but I just think it's awesome that two pubs can work together. Gives you a warm fuzzy feeling :)

okenny :)

@Demaar: He types from the pouch of a wallabie you see :)

okenny :)

Aren't robes the staple of civilians in this game? I'm not really that surprised that you get to wear one...

Fallible

TIME PARADOX!

Maybe Snake's got some Ashassins genetic material... anyway, all sorts of cool.

Shiryu

DID'J YOU LIKE IT?

I love how Kojima says that.

ncsbert

Maybe this is a clue about MGS4 O.o

Maybe it will be revealed that in MGS3 you wasn't really controling Naked Snake, but Solid Snake in some kind of VR Mission of Big Boss' memories locked on Solid's DNA. And that's why Colonel Campbell was the voice saying "Snake! You can't do that! It'll cause a Time Paradox!" because he was monitoring Solid's actions to really understand Big Boss' motivations (then, if Solid changed something, things wouldn't reach the same ending as the real life)

Now Asassin's Creed on MGS4 makes sense? ... DNA.. memories locked... playing on those memories... Maybe the two universes co-exist in the same world, so the technology from Assasins Creed was used on Snake

You heard it here first!

Chopper_Mike

So cool! Snake is a badass. Altair is a badass. But when you combine them? You get a man of such unparalleled badassery that the fabric of space-time has the potential of being torn asunder.

As an aside, I think I'm one of the only people who really, really liked Assassin's Creed. I even completed all of the "repetitive" side missions. Never did get around to killing all the Templars, though...

kylenalepa

OK, now we need sam fisher. Probably never happen since the sc series left the playstatioon but still...

Marasai

@excaliburps: Or perhaps Dante in a Shin Megami Tensei game.

Tale

didn't see this coming.. *rolls eyes*

sc00t420

@Chopper_Mike: Your reading too much into it :P

huginn

@JonC:
@Tale:
Ah yes I forgot Dante's cameo. Still, wouldn't it be awesome if they made someone from the Belmont clan (Or Alucard) a character in DMC5?!

@Elite Wombat:
Ah yes. Hopefully it won't resort to that. People will hate things no matter what. I didn't have a problem with SSBB's cameo characters. Though Rockman should've been there.

@Nexus6:
Yes it was a good game. I did finish the game actually. I just didn't like the repetitiveness of it all. The Free-running elements and the graphics were of course astounding.

When they release the second one, I'm pretty sure I'm still going to play and finish it. I just hope they add a bit more variety and cut out the long babbles after each kill.
=D

excaliburps

@agies: PERHAPS for a PC version... But there's no way this is coming to the 360. There was money behind this exclusivity... lots of it.

Zeag

@huginn: I know :P They probably would never be ending up with that idea.

I read the whole "MGS3 is a VR training!" somewhere else, and just added up the AC thing

Chopper_Mike

Nice bit of advertising for Ubisoft, but why? Is Konami publishing Ass Creed in Japan? Maybe Solid will be in Ass 2... Er...

MrLister

I KNEW IT...looked like they put too much work into that to be a joke. I hope they offer user created costumes or at least PSN purchasable one for multiplayer.

Seiven

I don't know why it hasn't been said already, but it's obvious that Ubisoft is porting MGS4 to the 360. Konami said that they wouldn't do it temselves but they never said that they wouldn't outsource it.

I mean this has to be the reason, right? Or am I making a joke?

agies

This is like when you get a hair in your dinner.

greeneggsnsam

I think this is great two companies showing respect for each other. I thought AC was a great game, yeah it was repetitive after awhile but still a great game. This damn game just needs to come out already after seeing the new trailer i'm all hyped up for June 12th

Dizzle

On a related note, last night I got the "Assassin's Greed" achievement in GTA4. Seriously this game is infecting everything.

dowingba

Hey, part of MGS4 takes place in the middle east, maybe you get to raid Altair's grave or something to get his outfit haha

chemical_eng_mx

So awesome...mind blown @_@

Now please tell me you can unlock Jade Raymond in this game too!

y2kenjination

Seeing as Kojima got Snake into Smash Bros., this isn't all that surprising. He seems to be able to do what he wants.

lunarworks

Did anyone actually believe they would take this out of the game? Not I, not I.

Yuki

Seriously, Kojima has fallen in love with Altair's character (or Mrs. Raymond). Either way, this will be exciting to see. If he gets involved in the next Assassin's Creed in any way, I would probably faint. He's got the midas touch when it comes to storytelling.

sascha23

AC was very linear and crappy game if you ask me and there was nothing likable about the main character, except maybe his climbing/fighting skills.
Sure, the game had cool control mechanics and pretty graphics, but everything else was unspectacular and very boring.

I really don't know why Kojima is doing this...wait a sec...it might have something to do with Jade Raymond's ass!

neojam

Kojima is flirting with jade raymond.

adventchild08

@lunarworks:

The reason why is that people respect Kojima ALOT. He designed Snake and Shadow Moses stage in Brawl. People let him do what he wants because he knows what he's doing.

Raften

[kimpix.net]
This one would have made more sense :P
Ubisoft etc.

McKack

Yep just as I predicted

Orionsaint

It's actually one of the outfits for disguising yourself among the militia against the PMCs.

Youlikeyams

@ShaggE: lool.

artofwar420

Sounds awesome. I bet it's some impossible task like "Ball-Grab takedown (I'm not sure what that move is actually called) every enemy in the game."

KingAw3some

Did Somebody say Time Paradox?

Grimmjow Jeagerjaques

Neat. I just finished Assassin's Creed last night. Maybe Altaïr is an ancestor of Snake's?

CyberSkull

Did you rike it?

Mordraug

hey everyone, this isn't the first time Ubisoft and Konami have worked together during MGS. look at the Ape Escape crossover in Snake Eater. They also had a small MGS cameo in AE3. So this is probably the result of a good friendship within the business, a back to scratch, if you will.

foodnaptime

Probably if you have the assasin's creed game save in your PS3. Note look for game save files on internet if this is true. That way you save money of not having to buy the game to make the save.

dragonfang18

Why is this happening? Cuz Kojima loves Assassin's Creed? remember how he's always complaining about his visions not becoming reality in MGS4? Maybe some of those visions were fullfilled when he played Assassin's creed.

ssh83