A 'Starter Pack' for Metal Gear Online will be included alongside the full release of 4, publisher has this week revealed. Speculation had raged over the status of the game's so-called mode for some time; ever since Konami revealed that MG Online was in the works, in fact.

"We have an component called a 'starter pack' that's shipping with Metal Gear 4," Konami's rep told GameSpot US, suggesting that this won't be a complete version of Metal Gear Online, but perhaps rather a taster of what's to come in the full release.

We might, then, expect this to be more like a or 'Prologue' version of MG Online, with a full version of the multiplayer game being delivered via a Store purchase and download, or in standalone form, in a box from a shop.

More on this soon. We hope.

By Luke Guttridge