It’s been 20 years this week since the release of the original, groundbreaking Metal Gear Solid, and to celebrate a fan has taken the 1998 game’s intro movie and completely remade it in Unreal Engine 4.
Here’s the original in all its blocky glory:
And here’s the new version made by Erasmus Brosdau, which not only completely redoes the visuals, but cleans up some of the audio as well, and adds a few edits and extra flourishes here and there just because it’s 2018 and he can:
We’ve actually featured Erasmus’ video work before: he’s the same guy who worked singlehandedly for years on a Warhammer 40K short that ended up better than anything official that’s ever been released.