Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes – snaking onto consoles next year

Konami has finally explained exactly what Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeros is and how it will be sold, describing it as an ‘entry experience and prologue’ to The Phantom Pain.

Konami has finally explained exactly what Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeros is and how it will be sold, describing it as an ‘entry experience and prologue’ to the events of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain.

Although there was some early confusion as to whether they were entirely separate games or not that’s more or less what has been assumed for the last few months. Although according to Konami the specific purpose of Ground Zeroes is to ‘act as a bridge between the linearity of existing titles and the full open-world environments of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain’.



‘The advanced capabilities of the Fox Engine have allowed me to tell the new story in a new way. There will be a significant difference in what Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain brings to the series, so we want to ease players into the new open world environment and its potential,’ said series creator Hideo Kojima.


‘As such, Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes has been designed to introduce key elements, allowing them to fully benefit from all that the new game will offer.’

Although there’s no specific release date yet Ground Zeroes will be released for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4 in spring of next year. The boxed current gen versions will sell for £29.99 or you can get the digital versions for £19.99. The Xbox One and PlayStation 4 versions are implied to be digital only, at a price of £29.99.

Although we still know almost nothing about the stories of either game Ground Zeroes has been revealed to involve a rescue mission in a Cuban prison camp, presumably a reference in some manner to Guantanamo Bay.

‘The prelude showcases key advances to the series made possible by its use of Kojima Productions’ Fox Engine, with a large open environment, and missions where time of day and weather have a dynamic effect on the game and its missions’, claims Konami’s blurb.

‘These elements will play a vital part in the story set up in Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes, while familiarising users with the possibilities they offer ahead of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain’.

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