It’s a spin-off and completely friendly to newcomers, you can play ”without needing to know” all that’s happened before. It would get too ”tied up”.
”To answer your question about returning characters, we’re probably not going to show too many characters in Rising because, since it’s a new part of a series, we don’t really want to refer to and dwell upon the Metal Gear saga so much,” said Matsuyama-san.
”We want newcomers to the game to come in and play freely without needing to know and understand the background of the whole Metal Gear Solid universe,” he added. ”We don’t want to have it all tied up with the story from MGS2 or MGS4 and make it too complicated.”
Metal Gear Solid: Rising releases on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC in 2011. It stars Raiden who was introduced in Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, and loved or hated by fans.
