Metal Gear Solid: Rising becomes 'Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance'

Konami has announced that Metal Gear Solid: Rising has been overhauled and is set to renamed Metal Gear Rising: Revengance.

Originally announced and developed by Kojima Productions as Metal Gear Solid: Rising, a stealth action game set between the events of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty and Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. It has now been confirmed that the game has been retitled, and will now take place after Metal Gear Solid 4 and would instead be developed by Platinum Games.

In Metal Gear Solid Revengeance players assume control of cyborg ninja Raiden, the katana-wielding ally of Solid Snake. Unlike previous titles in the Metal Gear series, Revengeance is strictly an action game, focusing on swordfighting and a sophisticated cutting system.

The game's cutting system allows players to engage in third person melee combat, as well as precisely slash enemies and objects at will along a geometrical plane using a free slicing mode. Virtually any object in the game can be cut, including vehicles and enemies.