It was the sixth Metal Gear game directed by Hideo Kojima and is set nine years after the events of Metal Gear Solid and five years after the events of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty. Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots ( Japanese: メタルギアソリッド4 ガンズ・オブ・ザ・パトリオット, Hepburn: Metaru Gia Soriddo Fō Ganzu Obu Za Patoriotto ?, commonly abbreviated as MGS4) is an action-adventure stealth video game developed by Kojima Productions exclusively for the PlayStation 3 console.
