Well, I guess that's great for all MGS fans, though I have never played any game in the series before. Only heard a TV saying "SNAKE!? SNAAAAKE!?", maybe a demo would "enlighten" me?

On other note, I think 16 players is a bit low. But ok, well I don't know what kind of gameplay, the multiplayer in MGS will be... so?

"players will be able to customize their characters with three different skills, which level up over time" sounds a bit like the COD4 perk system, which is all good with me.

This is very good news. I didnt want it to be seperate.

psn id: gingo... this is brillient news so really we are getting 2 games that should have been one game for the price of one.. it makes sense

Nice!!!

16 players is fine for an MGO title, the combat is too personal for a huge 30 man battle expscially when they whole point is stealth combat or atleast keeping as low a profile as possible.

sweet!!!!!!!!!!

Sweet

great news

this is good news IF they dont wack up the price because we will be getting 2 games in one. Fair enuf increasing the price a bit but anything over £55 will be a bit harsh in my opinion. Althouhg i doubt that konami, being the great publishers thay are will do this.

Metal Gear will sell $100,000,000 copies in the first day ;]

Awesome! Two games in one, I like that! Hopefully it's not $100

didnt axpect it to be realesed seperetly ... im happy its all in one, dont care if i have to pay more money.

I smell a $100 game coming.

erh? I thought we knew this already

Sweet, now that's going to be nice!

this is news is so old! i already knew this.

Hmm, I was under the impression this was already the case, but hey better it's finally confirmed.  Good call on this as it would have been kind of lame to buy it separate, but I would have done that anyways.  MGS4 is going to be bananas.  I think this could easily be the best game for the PS3 when it is finally released-going to be huge.

This is it.  Game of the Year!

OMG just release the game already

wow ... thats good ... like the orange box  

Good news. Saw it on N4G before. I'm definatly gonna get this. And for those who havn't tried MGS series before... You are definatly missing something.

Everyone needs to go out and preorder this game today. Get your PS3 owning friends to preorder it today as well. Let's all show Kojima that he was right to keep this a PS3 exclusive. And if you don't like the MGS series (I don't know how that is possible), buy a copy anyway to support PS3 exclusive games!

I'm really glad to hear this. i would have been so pissed if they expected me to buy it seperately. It's uncool to sell the online component of a game seperately. they're SUPPOSED to be together.

More great news about this game. One million copies will be easy on day one.

This is pretty pointless news, of course metal gear oline will be in MGS4. It's MGS4's multiplayer option..

i think they can sell over one million but they need a goood AD team to make this happen

sweeeeeeet!

I guess all old news is new again?

OoO........stop the madness....this is great...how can a must buy game be more of a must buy game....I been sold but Im even more sold

thank you jesus!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Very cool, though the pricepoint will come into question. $80 perhaps? $100 probably for a directors edition.

great news

Makes MGS4 all the better.

dah it's realy old news that MGS online will be included with MGS4! They stated it some time ago

Greattt !!!!!!!!!!!

MGS will certainly be a system seller.this new detail just makes things look even better

I'd loved to see an anthology collector's edition of the whole series (even if they just port the other games onto a couple of BD's) in a limited quantity distributed worldwide!!!  That, I would wait a little longer and pay for big $$$!!! Just hope there aren't anymore delays for this game and gets released simultaneously in all regions!

this makes the game all the better. Man this story is so entycing i cant take it anymore MGS3 really raised the standards for me it was such a great ending and music intense fire fight..... remember mounting on the turret gun while fighting the Metal gear while the female drove around. I loved how Snake started screaming with rage as he let off round after round while causing destruction everywhere. They definetly need to bring that back.