Warframe Turns To Metal Gear Solid For Inspiration With Its New Expansion, 1999

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Metal Gear Solid inspires Warframe 1999's new playable character, setting, and story aesthetics.

By Veerender Singh Jubbal on

While a new Warframe expansion isn't cause for a major surprise, the specifics recently announced at TennoCon about 1999, as it's called, caught the entire audience off-guard. It turns back time from Warframe's futuristic science-fiction space opera setting to 1999, with the trailer starting on New Year's Eve in a subway station littered with balloons and confetti to celebrate ringing in the new year. The unexpected setting isn't the only surprising aspect of Warframe's new expansion, as it turns out it was inspired in part by Metal Gear Solid.

With clunky computer monitors with the sound of earsplitting Internet connections abound, the gameplay trailer starts off with Nine Inch Nails' «Into the Void» (originally released in 1999). We are introduced to a never-before-seen character, Arthur, mowing enemy abominations made up of scrap television/computer screens fused together and given life. Even though this is an entirely new setting players have never delved into with Warframe, creative director Rebecca Ford reassured fans that the core experience is still Warframe. «It is a true core Warframe expansion. All of the gameplay is Warframe,» Ford said. "[Gameplay-wise], system-wise--the presentation will be different, but it is core Warframe. Your gear will be there. You will be there. Who else is waiting for you remains to be seen," Ford continued.

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