Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance

Metal Gear fans got a double dose of surprise at last night's VGA awards. First, Konami revealed that Kojima Productions wasn't handling development duties for the previously announced Metal Gear Solid: Rising, and that Platinum Games was taking control of the title. Then there's the issue of the title itself. It's been tweaked a little, and Raiden's spinoff game is now called Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance. Konami has explained some of the reasoning behind the moves and more, along with releasing the first official screens from the trailer.

Konami says that Metal Gear Solid: Rising was originally planned to show what happened to Raiden before the events of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. Once Platinum Games joined the project, the official story is that the timeline was shifted to take place years after MGS 4 to give the Bayonetta dev more room to carve out their own story. Kojima Productions is still overseeing the storyline and world, so it should be at least somewhat consistent with previous installments. If you're familiar with Platinum's past games, the action-heavy focus shown in the newest trailer shouldn't be too surprising.

Konami is teasing that more details on the game will be made available Tuesday on its official site, so stay tuned. In the meantime, check out the screens in the gallery below.