{"id":4613,"date":"2026-02-11T22:51:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T22:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/11\/kojima-talked-about-making-a-metal-gear-fps-with-zampella\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T22:51:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T22:51:25","slug":"kojima-talked-about-making-a-metal-gear-fps-with-zampella","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/11\/kojima-talked-about-making-a-metal-gear-fps-with-zampella\/","title":{"rendered":"Kojima Talked About Making A Metal Gear FPS With Zampella"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Some of the best-known names in game development are in Las Vegas this week for the annual DICE Summit and one of the first orders of business is paying tribute to the late Vince Zampella. \u201cHis legacy isn\u2019t just in the franchises or awards,\u201d EA Entertainment president Laura Miele said, according to an on-the-ground report by <em>Game File<\/em>. \u201cIt lives in every studio that chooses trust over fear, craft over shortcuts, people over ego.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bethesda\u2019s Todd Howard, <em>Metal Gear<\/em> creator Hideo Kojima, and others appeared via pre-recorded video segments to share memories of and tributes to the man who helped shape and shepherd some of the biggest studios and franchises in gaming. \u201cVince was the real deal,\u201d Howard said.\u00a0\u201cI would always seek his advice with every game that I did, or how to maneuver on all that is going on in the industry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">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. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hhjbCqG7T2\">pic.twitter.com\/hhjbCqG7T2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Geoff Keighley (@geoffkeighley) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/geoffkeighley\/status\/2021671381382181056?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 11, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Zampella died tragically and unexpectedly in a car crash last December that also claimed the life of his passenger. He worked on <em>Medal of Honor<\/em> in the early 2000s before cofounding Infinity Ward to lead<em> Call of Duty<\/em>. He later cofounded a new studio, Respawn Entertainment, amid an acrimonious split with Activision over studio bonuses. At the time of his death he had become an executive president at EA overseeing <em>Battlefield<\/em> and other franchises.<\/p>\n<h2>The first-person <em>Metal Gear Solid<\/em> that wasn\u2019t<\/h2>\n<p>Kojima, who had his own messy split with publisher Konami back in the 2010s, said Zampella took him on a tour of Respawn while he was in the process of getting <em>Death Stranding<\/em> maker Kojima Productions off the ground. \u201cHe gave me a lot of support and advice,\u201d Kojima said, according to <em>Game File<\/em>. \u201cHe showed me his studio, and I incorporated some of the good aspects into our own studio.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kojima even revealed that the two had at one pointed talked about possibly collaborating on a first-person <em>Metal Gear Solid<\/em> shooter sometime after <em>Metal Gear Solid 4<\/em> was released in 2008. Howard added that he\u2019d previously nominated Zampella for a lifetime achievement award, but he\u2019d refused to accept the honor.<\/p>\n<p>                          <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the best-known names in game development are in Las Vegas this week for the annual DICE Summit and one of the first orders of business is paying tribute to the late Vince Zampella. \u201cHis legacy isn\u2019t just in the franchises or awards,\u201d EA Entertainment president Laura Miele said, according to an on-the-ground report<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[625,3602,4298,4300,3601,4299,4301],"class_list":{"0":"post-4613","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-latest-news","8":"tag-fps","9":"tag-gear","10":"tag-kojima","11":"tag-making","12":"tag-metal","13":"tag-talked","14":"tag-zampella"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}