MGS4: Boss names, themes, and hot sexy ass

Just when you thought things couldn't get any crazier, Kojima reveals the underlying theme for his upcoming, ball-bustingly-sure-to-be-smash-hit PS3 game, Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. I'm personally still awaiting for news related to the Patriots themselves, but here's some interesting stuff: The theme of the game, according to Kojima, is sort of like Beauty and the Beast, except that the beauties are the beasts. Those spiffy-looking humanoid things in the picture to the left are the major bosses of the game: Screaming Mantis, Laughing Octopus, Crying Wolf, and Raging Raven. Sounds familiar? Hell, looks familiar to some extent even - Octopus obviously sort of looks like Solidus, while Raven looks like she came from Zone of the Enders.

Beastly as they appear, why do they look sort of hawt? Supposedly, they are a group of soldiers "transformed by battle", which probably means they experienced the trauma of fighting in wars Furthermore, they are all female. Why this is so remains unknown, but it provides further proof to my theory that the game is a metaphor for impotence that comes with old age. Anyway, these creatures are powered behind the scenes by some delicious-looking mocap actors (female, of course).

While the boss names sound like something straight out of Megaman X, it seems like Kojima is up to something psychological. Apart from the names being decidedly FoxHound, the first parts of the names are all -ing verbs...that pertain to an emotional state. More throwbacks (MGS3 this time)? Probably, but this also means that the characters are gonna live up to their names. So expect some creepy laughing from Laughing Octopus while fighting her, and so on. I personally don't think I can face Crying Wolf without getting creeped out.

I'm just hoping that when you defeat them, the women inside the exoskeleton battle suits are revealed...in underwear. Excuse my while I tend to my "raging raven".