Hideo Kojima

Hideo Kojima (小島秀夫 Kojima Hideo ) is a creator of Video game Japanese born the August 24th 1963 with Setagaya.

Biography

He moved at the three years age and was high in the Kansai, southernmost Japanese area comparable with the south of France, with inhabitants with the powerful accent and the sanguine constitution. Large fan of Cinema, it carries out several small short films in 8 mm with the college. Being young Japanese fan of Manga and robots, it is interested quickly in the video game. It returns to Konami in 1986 and starts directly at the station of range to plane (project manager). At the entry of its office is placarded the following quotation: “to create a play is not a work! It is a priesthood! ”

Metal GEAR on MSX is its first production. Play of action, Metal GEAR is the precursor of the kind from now on very snuffed Jeu of infiltration. It is with the third episode almost ten years later, Metal GEAR Solid left on PlayStation, that Hideo Kojima was known general public, thanks to qualities the scenario, with the political bias and a graphic realization and technique which made cross an additional course with the Video games on console , by the new possibilities suggested to the players, but also thanks to his setting in scene, halfway between choreographies Hong-Kong eases and the action Hollywood ienne , which imposed since a new standard in term of “catch of sight” of the action . In this direction, Metal Solid GEAR is a compilation of all its experiment and know-how which it acquired during its life of creator of video games, as with the titles Snatcher or Policenauts, unknown in Occident. Since, Kojima remained faithful to its principles, developing and carrying out Metal GEAR Solid 2: Sounds off Liberty ', carrying out Zone Off The Enders 1 & 2 and elaborative Boktai 1 & 2 , plays based on the ambient luminosity. He is vice-president of Konami today and created his studio Kojima productions.

Kojima announces during promotion in Europe of Metal GEAR Solid 3 that Metal GEAR Solid 4 is under development on PlayStation 3. He adds that he will not carry out this continuation.

But at the time of the E3, the largest living room of the video game, Kojima reveals through a video where he makes fun of Sam Fisher, the hero of Splinter Cell , the other great series of infiltration, which he will be well the director of this continuation.

In Tokyo Range Show 2005, living room usually not very favourable with the titanic trailer cards, Metal GEAR Solid 4: Guns off the Patriots is revealed in a way much more marked than at the time of E3. It is shown there an post-apocalyptic universe of war which not predicts play of infiltration as that was the case at the time of all the preceding episodes of the series, but of a war game, which, according to the dires of Kojima, will represent reality as well as the preceding episodes symbolized film sets.

At the end of 2005 it affirms once again that MGS4 will be the last episode of the series MGS in which it will take part as a project manager.

He is currently married and father of a little boy.

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