■ Given the massive visual advances that the PS2 and GameCube had brought about only a couple of years after the release of , it’s not surprising that a remake was on the cards. Titled , it took the original game almost exactly and ported it into a more contemporary version of itself. The arrangement for the remake was handled between Konami and Nintendo, but with deep in development Kojima couldn’t spare the time. He recommended Silicon Knights due to its work on . Ryuhei Kitamura handled the new cutscenes, however, with the director replacing the original’s with his action-movie cinematography.
