Official artwork like the manual is important for establishing details about a character's design that otherwise couldn't be shown in the game itself due to graphical constraints.Ħ) The Bloody Brad robots are not depicted as black. If they took the same dimensions for his sprite but made him half the height of Snake's sprite, then he would be an awkward little blob of pixels without the same kind of defined shape. _cb20… The reason his sprite is the same size as snake is because this was an old game with limited space for sprite sizes. The customer never brought up the detail of a scarf or goggles, so I didn't draw them.ĥ) Dirty Duck is short because, yes, he is depicted as the smallest merc in the manual artwork. _cb20… It also doesn't really look like he's wearing goggles either. He asked me to change it to a thick mustache and liked the result, so it stayed.Ĥ) Machine Gun Kid doesn't have a scarf because I didn't even notice it while looking at his MGS4 art for reference, due to how blurry it is. He had distinct frown lines which the customer thought looked sort of like a mustache. :\ġ) This is a commission, so the customer had final say in every detail.Ģ) Fire Trooper was given color to make him stand out more than his sprite's rather boring palette and fit together with the other, more colorful mercs.ģ) Shotmaker was not originally drawn with a mustache. Wow, you should work on how you phrase a comment if you don't want to say a picture is bad but then only nitpick details you think are wrong. Metal Gear is (c) Hideo Kojima and Konami
Machinegun Kid: Once a commando for the British SAS, he is a master with his namesake weapon. Shotmaker: A verteran of the Russian Spetsnaz, proficient with a custom riot gun that packs a lethal punch. So here's my take on these old-school mercs.įire Trooper: Former member of the German counter-terrorism unit GSG 9, he wields a deadly flamethrower.īloody Brad: A pair of TX-11 model cyberoids built by the creator of Outer Heaven's Metal Gear, they possess incredible strength and nigh-impervious armor.ĭirty Duck: Former leader of an extremist terrorist group called Egg Plant, known for his underhanded battle tactics and using large boomerangs as weapons.
XD Anyway, here are the bosses of Outer Heaven! While not as memorable as the characters from the Metal Gear Solid series, I still feel these guys deserve some love. I recently played the first game for the first time and it was a lot of fun! I needed a map and walkthrough because otherwise I would have spent entire days just wandering around with no idea where anything was. Overdue commission for my roommate of the bosses from Metal Gear.