The other is what happens to Paz, the captured female double agent who Snake must rescue. Unless you’re the kind of player who obsessively replays missions to try new tactics or get a better score, it’s not a lot of content for the $35 price.

military base situated on Cuban soil – and one story-based chapter, plus four or five side missions that offer different, shorter challenges (assassinate a sniper team, rescue a high-value target, destroy anti-air guns) set during a different times of the day. Snake has never had more tools and tactics at his disposal, and while its always more satisfying (and earns you a better post-mission score) to get through challenges using pure stealth, sometimes it’s fun to go full Rambo, driving an armoured personnel carrier around and blowing the crap out of baddies.īut Ground Zeroes has just one environment – the sprawling Camp Omega, a U.S. It manages to balance the familiar stealthy action that has always been the series’ hallmark with some new innovations, like Snake’s Splinter Cell-style ability to mark enemies and track their movements. Strictly based on its gameplay, Ground Zeroes is very good.

The full backstory would take pages to explain, and only devotees of the series will be able to follow it anyway, so let’s leave it at that. Big Boss, aka Naked Snake (voiced for the first time by Canada’s own Kiefer Sutherland) must infiltrate a military base to rescue a pair of detainees. In the labyrinthine chronology of the Metal Gear franchise, Ground Zeroes takes place in 1975, after the events of 2010’s Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker. In part because it’s not so much a game as an expensive demo, acting as a short prologue to the upcoming, full-length Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain.Īnd in part because it skirts some very dark subject matter that it doesn’t have the emotional maturity to back up. Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes is about as divisive a mainstream video game as we’re likely to see this year. But this time you might have gone a bit too far.

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