If you were wondering why Kojima Productions is splitting up Metal Gear Solid 5 into two games, it has everything to do with how long we'll be waiting to play Phantom Pain.
During the invite-only PlayStation 4 press event in New York this past week, Hideo Kojima was on hand to show off some Metal Gear Solid 5: Ground Zeroes. He also inadvertently revealed Sony's consoles would have exclusive content for the upcoming prologue to MGS 5: The Phantom Pain.
When you have a game series that's been running as long as Metal Gear Solid's, it's tough to continue expanding on the narrative. It's even tougher to keep jamming new details into the history through prequels. Looks like Hideo Kojima might have finally hit a continuity wall with Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain, but he's not worried.
Konami and Kojima Productions have announced the release date window for the first part of the Metal Gear Solid 5 experience, Metal Gear Solid 5: Ground Zeroes.
A new English language version of the opening cinematic to Metal Gear Solid 5: Phantom Pain's Ground Zeroes prologue gives us our first real experience of Kiefer Sutherland at the helm.
During Tokyo Game Show, Konami and PlayStation showed a lengthy gameplay demo of Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain. Now you can enjoy seeing the impressive sequel in action.
Kojima promised we'd get to see more of Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain character Quiet this week, and he did not disappoint. Not only did we get some screens of the character model, but we also got a brief behind-the-scenes video with the actress playing Quiet in the anticipated title.
With Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain, Hideo Kojima is taking some incredibly ambitious steps for the stealth action game. Chief among the new features to set this sequel apart is the open world, which presents a whole new way to sneak around as Snake.
The new open-world gameplay in Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain will give players more freedom than ever was possible in the stealth-action series. What's more is that players will have the opportunity to create their own missions in the game.
If you're mourning the loss of Metal Gear Online when its servers were shut down in 2012, you can rejoice the fact that a new online game is in the works and is being developed alongside Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain.