nd the voice of Snake in
Konami’s awkwardly
titled Metal Gear Solid V: The
Phantom Pain will be
handled by, err, you didn’t
know the part was up for
grabs? Neither did I.
But it was, and now the guy
probably best known for his
increasingly implausible 24-
hour feats of broadcast derring-do will take up the mantle
held by actor David Hayter since 1998: Kiefer Sutherland will
play Snake — that is, Big Boss, or Naked Snake, not to be
confused with Solid Snake — in the forthcoming PS3 and
Xbox 360 “tactical espionage” stealth game.
Curiously, Kojima pitched MGS V as “much darker” than
prior installments in Konami’s pre-E3 reveal . It’s hard to
imagine the series turning darker than Guns of the Patriots ,
but if he says so. In any event, I’m not sure I follow the logic
behind swapping actors to elicit “a more subdued
performance,” especially where the stated goal is to portray a
guy in his late 40s (the game takes place in 1984, making this
version of Snake 49) — David Hayter is 44, Kiefer Sutherland
is 46. Surely Hayter could have delivered the goods from a
“facial and vocal qualities” standpoint if that’s all Kojima was
after. But I’m also indifferent to the raspy, Clint-Eastwood-
on-a-respirator voice acting behind this particular MGS
character, which — all due respect to the affable Mr. Hayter
— has never been terribly multidimensional.
I’m not sure you’d call this a dig, but David Hayter posted this
to Twitter shortly after Konami’s presentation.

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