Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker HD which is to be included in the upcoming HD collection of past Metal Gear Solid games has been confirmed to provide support to four-player online co-op. The much-admired PSP title which is being re-mastered for the PS3 and Xbox 360 is slated to release along with copies of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty and Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater this fall.
Developer Kojima confirmed on Twitter yesterday that the PS3 version of the 2010 PSP title will indeed have a multiplayer co-op mode. The multiplayer mode in the previous edition of the game offered Versus Ops which included matches played over special versions of certain maps. Players were allowed to customize individual or team deathmatches, base captures and quetzal capture missions.
Hideo Kojima, Director of Kojima Productions, tweeted, “4 people can co-op and it is 60 frames. During loading, characters’ dialogues pop up at random.” This tweet was accompanied by a photograph which apparently seems to be showing four people playing the game at the same time on four different monitors.
It can be inferred from this, that the game will run at 60 frames per second and display dialogues of characters on the loading screen. In the earlier version of the title, only a small bunch of missions could be played alongside three other players. But the PS3 and Xbox 360 ports are all set to allow four gamers to play all the missions in multiplayer co-op.
Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker HD which has been confirmed to feature four player online co-op support will be released as a part of the Metal Gear Solid HD collection in November. It can be pre-ordered currently at a price of 49.96 USD (approx Rs. 2,298) for both the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions.