Another countdown has come to an end on Kojima Productions’ now-infamous teaser site, and during flashes of lightning, the unmistakable face of Big Boss appears on-screen. He looks older than he did in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater and is wearing a beret bearing a patch which reads “Militares Sans Frontieres” or “Military Without Borders” in English.

In the Metal Gear series, Big Boss was part of Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol (LRRP) in Vietnam during 1969. Which is five years after the events of Snake Eater and one year before Portable Ops takes place. Will we once again be donning the Greatest Soldier’s boots? The new countdown ends just as E3 begins. So expect an info blowout, maybe? If we are lucky, then maybe just maybe we will have a trailer.

[Via Joystiq]