Although he announced that "Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots" would be the last "Metal Gear" game he would be directly involved in, he announced at E3 2009 that he would return to help on two "Metal Gear" games: ', as a producer and ' as writer, director, and producer. When interviewed at Gamescom 2009, Kojima stated that he got more involved with "Peace Walker" because "there was a lot of confusion within the team and it didn't proceed as I wanted it to. Therefore I thought that I needed to jump in and do "Peace Walker"".