Konami of Europe has announced that Metal Gear Acid, a card-based Tactical espionage action game starring characters from the popular Metal Gear Solid universe is to be a launch title for Sony's PSPTM handheld video game system, which goes on sale in September.

Developed by the newly-formed 'Kojima Productions' team which is headed up by Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima, Metal Gear Acid mixes the astounding aesthetics the series is famed for with a unique card-based battle system. Assuming the role of series hero, Solid Snake, Metal Gear Acid is set in the year 2016 and begins as a terrorist faction hijacks a jumbo jet carrying a man understood to be the next US President. The terrorists demand the handing over of a project known only as 'Pythagoras', which is understood to be in development on the isolated Lobito Island