Kojima: New Zone of the Enders "top of the list"

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Sequel to awesome PS2 mech game likely, says Kojima

Hideo Kojima has said that making a new Zone of the Enders game is "top of the list" of games that Kojima Productions wants to make.

"A lot of users give us love-calls over Zone of the Enders. We do love the title, and we always wanted to create it on the next-gen [hardware] as well," said Kojima when asked of any plans to make ZOE 3.

"Kojima production has a long list of things that we want to bring out and of course Zone of the Enders is on the top of the list. However, we have to manage staffing and work around other projects. Therefore it's not going to be out too soon, but we are really considering it," he said.

Promising stuff. Zone of the Enders is PS2 mech action game that had you hover around in fast-moving, futuristic flying robots, blasting giant blue lasers all over the place to defeat nimble enemies while trying not to completely wreck the city below (no matter how fun it was).

As particular fans of the first two games, we bloody hope a PS3 sequel happens.

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and hopefully kojima loves the 360 enough to release it on that.

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and hopefully kojima loves the 360 enough to release it on that.

hopefully, he's finally bringing Metal Gear to the 360 so theres a good chance this will appear.

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ZOE3 "sort of pushed to the back"

Hideo Kojima has said that Zone of the Enders 3 has been "sort of pushed to the back" due to "various things", meaning we probably won't see it for an age.

For reasons that make less sense than the (underrated) final third of Metal Gear Solid 2, Kojima revealed this in a Ustream fan Q&A session from a hotel bathroom in Paris, as reported by Andriasang.

According to the site, producer Kenichiro Imaizumi said that one reason a ZOE sequel won't be happening any time soon is that Kojima's team would need to stop working on another project first.

As for the Taboo thing Kojima mentioned on Twitter a while ago, he said: "The Taboo is a project for high spec machines that I'm hoping to do myself next. It may or may not be a taboo, but for me, I think it will be quite the problematic game."

Kojima was at E3 this week, although it was producer Shigenobu Matsuyama who introduced the world to Metal Gear Solid: Rising, as Kojima wants to distance himself from it now that he has passed on the torch.

One game he is happy to be associated with, of course, is Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, released today in Europe, for which he's in London today signing autographs.