Hideo Kojima wants to be more than 'Metal Gear' guy

Game developer Hideo Kojima wants to be known for more than just being the man who created Metal Gear Solid.

The first Metal Gear game arrived in 1987 with Kojima as the lead designer.

Since then numerous Metal Gear games have been released across multiple platforms, with Kojima at the helm for all of them.

"I'm often misinterpreted," he told EGM. "I've always said that I want to work on original properties, but Metal Gear offers plenty of benefits.

"The Fox engine, for example, took a lot of time and money [to create]; we were only able to develop it because it was intended for the next Metal Gear. In the next game, I'm introducing concepts intended for entirely new intellectual properties using the Metal Gear brand."

While Kojima is also writing, directing, producing and designing the upcoming Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes, he said there's a lot more he can do outside of the franchise.

"I'll admit that I hope my future endeavours are thought of as 'works of Hideo Kojima' rather than 'from the creator of Metal Gear'.

"I haven't really shown the world what else I might be capable of yet. This may sound pretentious, but I don't like being thought of as 'the Metal Gear guy'. There's a lot more I can do."

You can check out a trailer for Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes here.