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Kojima to be Honored at GDC

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By Kris Graft

February 17, 2009

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Over 20 years after the first Metal Gear hit the MSX, series creator Hideo Kojimo, age 45, will be receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award during March's Game Developers Choice Awards ceremony in San Francisco.

Kojima, who is director at Kojima Productions, most recently led development for the PS3-exclusive Metal Gear Solid 4, which is up for three GDC Awards, although it was squeezed out of the game of the year category.

Other Choice Award lifetime achievement honorees include Sid Meier, Shigeru Miyamoto, Richard Garriott, Eugene Jarvis, Mark Cerny, Gunpei Yokoi, Yuji Naka and Will Wright.

Organizers for March's Game Developers Conference, which holds the Choice Awards, said recently that Kojima will be presenting a GDC keynote for the first time. His presentation is titled, "Solid Game Design: Making the ‘Impossible’ Possible."

Other notable Kojima projects include Zone of the Enders, Boktai: The Sun in Your Hand, Snatcher and Policenauts, although the designer truly went high-profile with the 1998 PlayStation release, Metal Gear Solid.

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On February 19th savagehenry said:

Nice one Hideo....

Sadly I've not come across to many games previous to the Metal Gear Solid games and of course theres the Zone of the Enders Saga. Both I found hugely entertaining and thoroughly enjoyable.

I hope there is more left to come :D

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On February 18th Barla Von said:

For me, his best work was Snatcher.

I've never understood gamers fascination with MGS to be honest. The games are mediocre i.e. poor narrative, clunky controls and over the top cut-sences put me off all four games forever.

The franchise has to be put in the: most over rated videogames ever category.