A flurry of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance memes has led to the game having a sudden resurgence on Steam. Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance is one of the more unique Metal Gear games, as Hideo Kojima didn’t lead the project and instead handed over the project to some of the folks at PlatinumGames after feeling like Kojima Productions was unsuited for the type of gameplay they had imagined. Kojima was still heavily involved in the production of the game, but PlatinumGames was given a lot of freedom to make a really go wild with its ideas. Incidentally, that creative freedom has paid dividends for them nearly a decade after its original release.
Although it is almost 10 years old, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance is seeing numbers it hasn’t seen since launch.📈 concurrent players up 1000%🏆 peak in achievement activity across all platformsThe cause? Various meme templates featuring characters from the game went viral. pic.twitter.com/Ey6FmYAXJp
