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Metal Gear Solid: Remote Ops
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Metal Gear Solid: Remote Ops is a fictional video game set by Konami as an April Fool's Day joke. Konami planned a sequel to Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops, but later on, scrapped the whole project. Around March 2007, a screenshot of a possible sequel to Portable Ops was leaked onto the Internet, showing Solid Snake, in his Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty attire and wielding a weapon similar to Snake's weapon in the 2005 Tokyo Game Show trailer of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. The screenshot left a lot of questions by gamers about the existence of this possible Portable Ops sequel and the sequel itself being portrayed on the Wii console instead of the Playstation Portable.
Leak
According to The Snake Soup, an Konami insider had leaked a possible description of Remote Ops onto the Internet as follows:
*Metal Gear Solid: Remote Ops
*Release date: Q4 2008
*Platform: Wii
In 2001 players experienced the highly anticipated Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty through the eyes of newcomer Raiden. Now events of the game will unfold through Solid Snake's eyes in this spiritual sequel to MGS: Portable Ops. Similar to Portable Ops, players will control Solid Snake as well as recruit and use their own handpicked squadron. In addition to a full-length single player mode illustrated by Ashley Wood and the multiplayer modes seen in previous titles, the game features unique gameplay elements using the Wii Remote and Nunchuk controller.
This description also left a lot of questions by gamers, as now it looked highly believable that a Portable Ops sequel was planned and in the development stages for the Wii console.
Konami's response
Ravi Singh, the writer of the Remote Ops news report on The Snake Soup, received a cease and desist letter from Konami concerning the leak of Remote Ops. The letter had asked Ravi Singh to put the news report down and to call a Konami number. He replied on his news-report that he would not do this and asked viewers to Digg the article to anger Konami operatives. Although the screenshot was highly believable, many Metal Gear Solid gamers where amused when first exposed to it. The screenshot itself could be another game, applied with MODs resembling the Metal Gear Solid structure. The item/weapon boxes at the bottom corners of the screen do not resemble that of the Metal Gear Solid series. The area is not an area that would be portrayed in the Metal Gear Solid series, although it could be a multiplayer stage as seen in Metal Gear Online. Snake's stance is a bit different, but if the whole Remote Ops thing was true, his stance could have been controlled through the Wii Remote. The screenshot itself is fake and looks believable, not something a graphics designer could create. This had been concluded that the game could have been a PC game, running a whole range of MODs resembling the whole Metal Gear Solid experience. And also, the red text at the top left of the image makes it look like an MGS multiplayer stage, saying things like Snake Killed Vulcan Raven etc. But one thing that points out it is fake is a minor spelling mistake. The last line says "Sniper Wolf killed (headshot) Meryl Silverburg with PSG1. Sliverburg is spelt wrong, as an H is missing meaning that the game could have been a screenshot of a PC running vast amounts of MODs resembling the MGS experience with the text later on written with an image editor. Later on, Konami classified Remote Ops as fake, an April Fool's joke.
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