`` Metal Gear '' series creator Hideo Kojima is renowned for his Hollywood-style video games , but critics say they leave little room for players to roam . Maybe he 's listening , because Kojima plans to go in a new direction with his next big project . `` The kind of game I 'm making is some game that has a very wide entrance , a very open entrance , '' Kojima said through a translator in a phone interview with CNN last week . `` Rather than making something very cinematic , [ I plan to ] make something very free . '' Among gamers worldwide , and especially in Japan where Kojima Productions and publisher Konami are based , Kojima is treated like a rock star . Often dressed in a slick leather jacket , he gets swarmed by fans at conventions , and people pick apart his every word and tweet for clues about the next secret-agent action game in the `` Metal Gear '' series . One such Twitter frenzy broke out a few days ago when Kojima posted pictures from a mysterious war game to his 131,000 followers . He wrote that the images demonstrate some of the advancements made in game-development software , made by his team , that allow for translucent clothing , realistic dust particles and other fancy effects . The pictures are set in a sandy , mountainous region , perhaps somewhere in the Middle East , with soldiers and tanks . They do not look quite like a `` Metal Gear '' game , which have led many fans to speculate that this is the first peek at Kojima 's next big thing . Kojima has called his upcoming game Project Ogre . In the interview , he described it as being set in a very open world where players can wander around and explore freely . Players should still be able to find new sights and worthwhile adventures after having played the game for as many as 100 hours , he said . By contrast , recent `` Metal Gear '' games have followed very linear paths , going back to the original on the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1987 . For example , `` Metal Gear Solid 4 '' for the PlayStation 3 takes players from Afghanistan to Alaska in a lengthy , action-packed , professionally narrated story , but there is little room to stray from the trail . People do not quite know what to expect from `` Metal Gear Rising : Revengeance , '' next year 's game , which was developed by an outside studio with less direction from Kojima . In a recent interview with the UK 's Official PlayStation Magazine , Kojima described Project Ogre 's tone as `` subdued , '' and the experience as similar on the surface but essentially different from his past projects . Project Ogre will not be completed for some time , and Kojima will continue to produce other games , he said .
` ` Metal Gear '' creator Hideo Honda is working on a less cinematic game . His games are praised for being like ##able but criticized for their rigidness . They are a war game set in a sandy , mountainous world .