Last December, Call of Duty veteran and Battlefield boss Vince Zampella perished in a car accident. Zampella had deep ties to the video game industry, and according to Hideo Kojima, he also had ideas about making Kojima’s Metal Gear Solid into a first-person game.
The Game Awards host and creator Geoff Keighley noted at DICE that Kojima revealed that he had “many discussions” with Zampella about a first-person MGS. It’s unclear how far those discussions went, since their collaboration never went forward.
At DICE, Hideo Kojima revealed that he had many discussions with Vince Zampella about creating a first person Metal Gear Solid game together after the release of Metal Gear Solid 4. pic.twitter.com/hhjbCqG7T2
— Geoff Keighley (@geoffkeighley) February 11, 2026
Kojima did introduce a first-person mode in Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, however players could only move around in a third-person view. The MGS franchise so heavily leans towards stealth that it might have been difficult to retain the game’s signature touches in first-person.
