Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes – Raiden is up for even more revengeance

Update:

Konami has said that Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes will launch across Europe ‘from March 20th’. Since the 20th is a Thursday (a common day for new games to be released on the Continent) that almost certainly means that it will be released on Friday, 21st in the UK.

They’ve also re-confirmed that the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions of Ground Zeroes will cost £29.99 at retail or £19.99 as a download. The Xbox One and PlayStation 4 versions will cost £29.99 to download, with no retail version yet confirmed.

Original story:


The Xbox versions of Ground Zeroes will have an extra mission featuring Raiden and body snatchers, as the game’s release date is revealed.



The ‘Jamais Vu’ mission is exclusive to the Xbox 360 and Xbox One versions of Ground Zeroes and features body snatchers taking over a military base.

This appears to be a reference to Hideo Kojima’s 1988 game Snatcher, with Raiden sent in to combat the threat because his cyborg body can’t be taken over.

We don’t get the feeling the mission is taking itself terribly seriously (although it’s always difficult to tell with Hideo Kojima’s rubbery dialogue), not least because Raiden shouldn’t even be around at the time the game is set.

Jamais vu is the opposite of déjà vu (i.e. the sense that you should recognise something but don’t) and the mission is a counterpart to the PlayStation format exclusive which features a retro version of Solid Snake from the PS one games.

For the first time though the Xbox trailer includes a date of March 18, which is presumably the same for all four versions of the game.

Ground Zeroes has been described as a standalone prequel to the main game, which is subtitled The Phantom Pain. Its gameplay is intended to bridge the gap between the linear originals and the more open world new style.

There’s no release date yet for The Phantom Pain and Konami has hinted there could be a long gap between the two titles.

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