Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes – short but sweet?

The prologue to The Phantom Pain has ended up much shorter than fans may have hoped, despite costing up to £30.

Ground Zeroes has always been described as a ‘standalone prequel’ to the main Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, something similar to a downloadable expansion pack – except considerably more expensive.

American mag Game Informer has a cover story on the game this month and they revealed that it can be completed ‘in just less than two hours’, with Konami speedrunners apparently beating it in just five minutes.

For an expansion or epsidoic download that’s par for the course, but Ground Zeroes costs £29.99 (or £19.99 for the download version on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3).




Ground Zeroes does have a lot of side content though, including exclusive missions for both the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 – one featuring Raiden and the other a recreation of the original PS one game.

The Game Informer feature also identifies a number of new details about the game, including the fact that it’s set in 1975, while The Phantom Pain is set in 1984. Snake’s binoculars can be used to tag enemies and there’s some sort of optional bullet time effect when discovered by a guard.

Meanwhile, the turning circles of vehicles was described as ‘pitiful’ and the graphics apparently looked ‘slightly’ better on PlayStation 4 compared to Xbox One.

Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes is released in the UK on March 21 (possibly March 20 for the download versions, it’s still not clear).

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