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Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes (2014)

Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes cover
Developer
Kojima Productions
Publisher
Konami
Platforms
PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox 360, Xbox One
Genres
Shooter, Tactical, Adventure
Rating
3.7 of 5, 493 player ratings
Main story
about 3.1 hours
Completionist
about 28 hours
Where to get it
PlayStation Store

How it feels

A tense, atmospheric stealth prologue that opens into a freer, more open approach to danger.

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About

Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes is a prologue to Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. It offers players new sneaking and traversal methods compared to its predecessors, as well as the choice in what order the story events take place by selecting missions by advance. The most important change for this title is the shift to an open world design with a real-time day and night cycle doing away with the linear mission approach of previous games. The game was originally developed as a mission for The Phantom Pain, but an extended development time resulted in director Hideo Kojima splitting the specific portion of the game as a stand-alone product so that players could get early access to Metal Gear Solid V.

Trailer

Screenshots

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