With every new cross-gen video game comes a new opportunity to compare technical performances across most of today's big gaming consoles, and Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes is no exception.
Note: This article contains spoilers! One of the side ops missions in Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes is a little bit different. It's a short rescue mission, where we have to infiltrate a military base and find someone... special.
The new Metal Gear Solid is short. Really short. Kirk called it "a sliver of a larger, more complete game," and even Hideo Kojima admitted last year that it'd have been ideal if Ground Zeroes was part of the real Metal Gear Solid V, which will be out at some undetermined point in the future.
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Snazzy Snake: check out the awesome reversible cover on the physical copies of Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes. Here's the front cover, for comparison's sake.
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Excited about Metal Gear Solid V? Wondering when the main part, The Phantom Pain, is coming out? Game creator Hideo Kojima recently named a launch window for the game. It's incredibly vague.
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The first part of Metal Gear Solid V wasn't always going to be on next-gen consoles—in fact, series creator Hideo Kojima says it could have been a PSP game. Then we might have been waiting even longer between the game's two parts.
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"The first thing is, I shouldn't have talked about clones," said Hideo Kojima, laughing.
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Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain will be divided into 2 parts: The prologue, Ground Zeroes, which takes place in 1975, and the main game, which takes place in 1984. Sound confusing? It's actually done that way to make it less so.
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Looking at its gameplay, Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain and its prologue, Ground Zeroes capture the spirit of the Metal Gear series despite worries arising from director Hideo Kojima's announcement that the game would be open world. However, a staple of the series—the exclamation point—was almost not included…
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Want to know how an open-world design is going to change the stealth in the next Metal Gear Solid game? Feast your eyes on this, then.
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Yesterday, news broke that David Hayter—the man who’s been the voice of Solid Snake in all the English language releases of the storied Metal Gear Solid games—wouldn’t be coming back to reprise the role. Worse still, Hayter said that he wasn’t even asked to return. Last night, during a televised interview on …
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