WARNING: WE’RE TALKING ABOUT THE ENDING SO THERE WILL BE SPOILERS. There’s no doubt that MGS 5 is an excellent game but the odd pacing and strange ending led many to argue that it was ultimately unfinished – with the ongoing disintegration of Kojima and Konami’s relationship (opens in new …
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A report from The New Yorker puts a date on when Metal Gear Solid series creator Hideo Kojima left Konami (which has been widely accepted at this point) – and explains why we still lack any official word from either of the involved parties. According (opens in new tab) to …
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I’m playing Metal Gear Solid 5, sitting in my helicopter, scrolling through the various menus of my iDroid. Story missions: Finished. Side ops: Completed. Mother Base: Fully built. All that’s really left now is to raid other players’ forward operating bases, so I bring up the list of potential victims. …
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When you think of Metal Gear Solid, ‘online multiplayer shooter’ is probably the last thing that comes to mind. But Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain (opens in new tab) also includes the latest edition of Metal Gear Online, with all the gadgets, cardboard boxes, and inherent silliness found …
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Warning: MGS5 story and ending spoilers throughout To say that Metal Gear Solid 5 (opens in new tab) feels unfinished – whether that feeling is intentionally designed (opens in new tab) or not – is an understatement. Broken into two chapters and a prologue, MGS5: The Phantom Pain tells the …
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The tense stealth action and bizarre quirks of Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain (opens in new tab) are coming to a full multiplayer mode with Metal Gear Online on October 6 (opens in new tab) (except for PC, which is getting it next year). Konami has finally pulled …
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You know, despite taking place in a world with bipedal nuclear tanks, cyborg ninjas, and nanomachine-controlled clones, I never thought of the Metal Gear Solid universe as a place where silenced rocket launchers existed. I was wrong though, as you can clearly see such a weapon being demonstrated below in …
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If you haven’t put a few dozen hours into Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain (opens in new tab) yet, you probably only know Forward Operating Bases from the game’s endless server status messages. You can’t start building your own FOBs and raiding others until you’ve finished mission 22 …
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Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain (opens in new tab) is unlike any Metal Gear game before it. You can deploy whenever and wherever you want, you can invade other players’ Forward Operating Bases (when the servers are working (opens in new tab)), and you can even go cardboarding …
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Metal Gear Solid 5: Ground Zeroes’ complete lack of cardboard boxes was concerning, but it turns out they were just back at the shop for some upgrades. At some point in the nine years between Ground Zeroes and Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain (opens in new tab), box …
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