Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5085906-20130627191357/@comment-1672596-20150803150240

Jim Logan wrote: Actually, that one magazine stated that Raiden would be Snake's main ally in MGS2, so there was something to go on his role, it was just reversed in the final product.

Also, little thing here. People were convinced until the release of MGS4, that Snake Eater was all just a VR Raiden was playing through to get ready for the Big Shell Incident.

Sounds familiar, no? Was this magazine Japanese/American based, or European based? I'm asking because that would depend on whether this was part of the blackout in the leadup to MGS2. Because Europe had a huge delay in release for Metal Gear Solid 2, the European version's news outlets were pretty much infamous for spoiling the Raiden surprise before the game was even released in Europe, in some cases, you can't even avoid the spoilers since the covers flat out advertised the change in characters.