Four beautiful women gathered from around the world. Each one has been mentally violated by the horror of war. As their sole means of survival, they are modified into the ultimate bio-mechanical arsenal: The Beauty and the Beast Corps. Can Solid Snake finally uncover their humanity and rescue them from their lucid nightmares? Or will they simply be another notch or four on the casualty list?

Director Hideo Kojima’s vision, a physical beast on the outside and a woman’s beauty on the inside, has finally been realized with the approaching release of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. Two voice actors were provided for each boss in the English voices department, one providing the beast’s voice, the second portraying the human voice and both voices subsequently over-lapped to further the personality divide. The high-grade production values don’t stop there. Kojima commissioned four real-life beauties and used advanced modeling and digital photography techniques to have them provide the framework, so to speak, for the feral four.

We know some of the powers displayed by each beastly beauty, and the references to famous and infamous Metal Gear Solid bosses and Snake Eater pathos. What of the beauty beneath the beast? Let’s take a closer look at the models who have gamers head-over-heels in love with their rampant murder mixed with a dash of stylish mangling and post-traumatic stress echoing in their desensitized mechanical hearts.

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Ahh, I love the smell of lethal materialism in the morning. Not only will the Metal Gear Solid 4 Limited Edition be officially available in India at launch (June 12th, better mark those calenders), but for those who are anxious to get their hands on their luscious tin box ASAP will want to head over to GamingIndians. For the first 15 days of its release, the Limited Edition package will be exclusively available for pre-order to the community’s members and so forth. Sam’s got the details posted up here, so if you’re interest is piqued - read hard and long. And try not to upset Mr. Bose. This guy can kill a ferret with his mind. That, and recite the English alphabet backwards. Backwards, damn you.

Looks like Christina Aguilera was right, you are beautiful no matter what they say! One of the emerging story themes brought up during the Games Convention conference of Kojima-san’s highly anticipated magnum opus was about how four fine-looking women transformed into technological “beasts” of combat. Now say hello to these four buxom metallic babes of destruction: Laughing Octopus, Raging Raven, Howling Wolf and Screaming Mantis. Interesting choice of names, an obvious nod to the first Metal Gear Solid no less. What’s even more interesting is that these characters will be modeled and motion-captured after real-life actresses, a first for the series!

Kojima’s newest tragic characters are expected to be sympathetic, as the Metal Gear director explained that “War created these ugly beasts, but beneath they are beautiful women.” He asked the audience rhetorically “Can these beautiful ladies return to human form?” We’ll surely find out when we play the game next year.

You tease, Kojima-san. You fucking tease.

Source: Kotaku

Well, we all knew this was going to happen, a brand spanking new, kickass trailer for Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots at this year’s E3 as well. But what’s really set the PS3 owners into a frenzy right now is the announcement by Patrick Seybold, Senior PR manager at SCEA, via the Official PlayStation.Blog, that the latest trailer for the game will be available for download from the PlayStation Store soon after it is aired at the official Sony Press Conference. And yes, it will be in HD and in 5.1. And here we were wondering why the PS Store was shut down for some time last night…