Metal Gear Solid 5: Ground Zeroes breaks cover in Spring 2014

Konami has revealed the unique link between its eagerly-awaited Metal Gear Solid 5: Ground Zeroes title and Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain.

Both new additions to the Metal Gear Solid canon, Kojima Productions has created Metal Gear Solid 5: Ground Zeroes as an entry experience and prologue to the events of Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain. It will serve to introduce key gameplay components that will be fully realised in the fifth, full Metal Gear Solid epic, and act as a bridge between the linearity of existing titles and the full open-world environments of Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain.

Explaining the relationship between the two titles, Hideo Kojima – Creator of the Metal Gear Solid series and Head of Kojima Productions – commented: “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 5: The Phantom Pain brings to the series, so we want to ease players into the new open world environment and its potential. As such, Metal Gear Solid 5: Ground Zeroes has been designed to introduce key elements, allowing them to fully benefit from all that the new game will offer.”

Metal Gear Solid 5: Ground Zeroes charts a rescue mission as users infiltrate a Cuban prison camp, and sets in motion a series of events that culminate in the plotlines of  Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain. 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. These elements will play a vital part in the story set up in Metal Gear Solid 5: Ground Zeroes, while familiarising users with the possibilities they offer ahead of Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain.

Metal Gear Solid 5: Ground Zeroes will be released for the PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One in Spring 2014. The boxed PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions will retail at £29.99, while the digital versions will retail for £19.99. The PlayStation 4 and Xbox One digital versions will retail for £29.99.

Source: Press Release