[kupoartist]

I think Gamespy also interviewed him and got a few mentions about an Online game out of him. He mentioned that the rest of his team plays long sessions of Counter-Strike and that he personally would have no grasp of making an online MG (he gets completly trounced by them at CS ^_^)

I don't see how they could make an online MG though... MG isn't CS like (ie. storming buildings and planting bombs), and I could imagine that a Deathmatch game with Sneaking emphasis would be ok as an extra feature only. And a Massivly Multiplayer Metal Gear would just be silly, with everyone opting to creep around and snap everyone's necks for fun

If they do - and i'm not a game designer so perhaps they've got some better ideas (you could be hired for missions or somthing - who knows) - I don't see why they can't put the game as part of the main MG story. Just not somthing big... like the Online game could be somthing to do with Zanzibar, or somthing that really doesn't have more than a few names to relate it to the main plots. - A similar thing was done when Epic Games made Unreal into a Multiplayer Franchise. I think in Unreal Tournament, they carried over a name of a company an alien race and a few weapons - It was still part of the Unreal story, but it was somthing completely different.

oh and Kojima mentioned that he'd be happy to give away the Metal Gear franchise for Film Liscencing - he apparently gets loads of calls about making a MGS film already