Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance details, screens

Originally announced more than two years ago, Konami has now outlined the direction the upcoming action title Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance and is detailing those behind it.

Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance is a stunning action title, produced by Kojima Productions and developed by Platinum Games.  The game’s story was created by Kojima Productions, who also managed cutscenes and voice-over sessions.  Metal Gear Solid artist Yoji Shinkawa designed the game’s characters and Platinum Games will focus on the game design and programming elements.

Creator of the Metal Gear series Hideo Kojima personally chose Platinum Games to create the new title with Metal Gear Solid veteran Yuji Korekado overseeing the project for Kojima productions.  Korekado will be working closely with Platinum’s Atsushi Inaba and Hideo Kojima will act as the game’s Executive Producer.

Through the guidance of Kojima Productions, Platinum Games is creating a game where the player has total control of the main character – the cybernetically-enhanced Raiden from Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots – and a total freedom of how users control him.  As such, the game title has been slightly rebranded to reflect the more action-based content than in previous Metal Gear Solid titles.

Metal Gear Solid Rising: Revengeance is scheduled to be released onto PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, though no further release information has been announced at this time.

Check out the VGA reveal trailer and some newly released screens below.