Overview
- Number of Players
- 1 (Single Player) (16 Player Online)
- Genre
- Release Date
PlayStation 4
1st Sep 2015
1st Sep 2015
- Also Available On
- Series
- Tags
- Controller Support
- Official Site
- konami.com
- Wikipedia
- en.wikipedia.org
Reviews
Review Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (PS4)
A diamond in the rough
Republished on Wednesday 27th September 2017: We're bringing this review back from the archives following the announcement of October's PlayStation Plus lineup. The original text follows. Hideo Kojima's critically acclaimed Metal Gear franchise is known for its showy, fantastical, and often down-right ridiculous mythos –...
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Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain Guides
Guide Metal Gear Solid V Buddies and How to Get the Best Out of Them
Comrades in arms
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain features very fun and flexible mission design. From fully customisable loadouts to the fact that you can tackle almost any operation exactly as you see fit, you're always given countless options when it comes to fulfilling your objectives. One of the game's most interesting additions to the...
Guide Where to Find All of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain's Music Cassette Tapes
Locations that will make your Walkman sing
Let it be known that there is only one universal truth on this earth, and that is that cassette tapes suck. Unfortunately for Big Boss he hasn't got much of a choice, as CDs and iPods don't exist in Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. While collectibles can be a pile of crud in other games, the tapes...
Guide Sneaking to Success in Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain on PS4
Hints and tips for Big Boss beginners
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain is an extraordinary game. Hideo Kojima may be bowing out with the brand's big fifth instalment, but his swansong is a real masterwork: a compelling tapestry of an entire career's worth of refinement, condensed into a tropical open world. Of course, with any title as expansive...
Guide How to Get S-Ranks in Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain on PS4
Quick tips on stealth sequel's scoring system
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain is designed to be played how you want to, which means that both covert operations and all-out combat are viable strategies. However, if you want to get the best ranks in the game – which grant you crucial GMP currency bonuses – then you'll need to be aware of the...
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain News
News Metal Gear Solid 5 Scouts Surprise PS4 Patch, But It Ain't Chapter 3
It's actually a big one
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain received a surprise PlayStation 4 patch earlier today, and it’s a big one, weighing in at well over 3GB in total. Alas, there’s no sign of the release’s infamous third chapter among the new files, as the patch notes for v1.21 merely mention a “modification of the agreement...
News Metal Gear Solid V PS3 Community Unlocks Secret Cutscene Naturally
Here's your chapter 3
Right, you're going to want to buckle up for the ride here. Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain is a really weird game, but did you know that one of its most bizarre aspects actually kept a secret cutscene under lock and key? One mechanic allowed players to build nukes for their bases, but these could be stolen by other...
PGW 2017 Metal Gear Solid V Sneaks a PS4 Pro Patch, Out Now
Bigger Boss
A welcome little surprise that was wheeled out just before Sony's Paris Games Week 2017 press conference yesterday, Konami announced that Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain would be getting PS4 Pro patch. The game's about two years old now, but it was part of this month's (October's) PlayStation Plus lineup, so it's probably...
News Hideo Kojima Completed Metal Gear Solid V in Solitary Confinement
Sent to the stands
Geoff Keighley's teary tribute to Hideo Kojima during last night's The Game Awards may have been a touch over-the-top, but speaking with Glixel prior to the show, the host did reveal a little more about the luminary's predicament at Konami. Apparently, during the final stages of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain's production,...
News Metal Gear Solid V: The Definitive Experience Announced, Contains All DLC
Bundles together Ground Zeroes and The Phantom Pain
After numerous online leaks over the past month, Konami has officially announced Metal Gear Solid V: The Definitive Experience, a package that bundles together Ground Zeroes and The Phantom Pain along with all its DLC. While this may seem like a good deal for first t
News Metal Gear Solid V: Definitive Edition Spotted Online For the Second Time
What do you think, Boss?
Apparently, publisher's don't announce complete editions any more - they just wait until every online retailer under the sun has leaked it for them. Following on from last month's supposed Amazon leak, Metal Gear Solid V: Definitive has popped up once again, this time via Dell's online store. However, just like last time,...
News Metal Gear Solid V: Definitive Ex Emerges on Amazon
We need intel
What do we have here then, Boss? Metal Gear Solid V: Definitive Ex has popped up on Amazon.co.uk, which, we assume, is some sort of Game of the Year edition. There's no information to be gleaned from the listing whatsoever, other than it's a product from Konami. So, what would a definitive edition of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom...
News Metal Gear Solid 5 Wasn't Finished, So Why Pay Full Price?
Amazon Prime Day makes tactical espionage affordable
How's that for some tip-top clickbait game? Oh, hush your noise, we don't want to be writing about Amazon Prime Day 2016 anymore than you want to be reading about it – but this is a good deal for a genuinely great game. Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain's just dropped to £12.99. And no,...
News Metal Gear Solid V Ships Over 6 Million Copies as Konami Profits
Mission successful, Snake
Konami's enjoyed a decent amount of success with it's surprisingly divisive Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. According to the Japanese publisher's latest earnings report, the open world stealth-'em-up has shipped over six million copies worldwide. The title's popularity contributed to a 37.5 per cent increase in...
News Ever Wonder Why the Classic Metal Gear Solid Theme Isn't in the Phantom Pain?
Name that tune
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain is a phenomenal game – which is just as well, as it could end up being the final entry in the series to benefit from the input of creator Hideo Kojima, who seems to be parting ways with Konami at the end of the year. However, as amazing as the game undoubtedly is, it is missing a vital ingredient...
About The Game
The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan has brought a new edge to the Cold War, and in 1984, a one-eyed man with a prosthetic arm appears in the country. Those who know him call him Snake; the legendary mercenary who was once swept from the stage of history and left in a coma by American private intelligence network Cipher. Snake is accompanied by Ocelot, an old friend who saved him from attack when he finally awoke.
Now, Snake's former partner Kazuhira Miller is being held by the Soviet forces in Afghanistan. Snake must undertake a solo mission to rescue Miller and prove to the world that the legendary mercenary is not dead and gone. That first step will lead to a path of vengeance against the very Cipher that slaughtered so many of Snake's men, and to a battle that will embroil the whole world...
What started in Ground Zeroes must finish with "V".
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Comments 4
Show some multiplayer game play
@Hustlestack Either way I'm buying day 1 - but we will start a clan in the forums for the multiplayer
I love MGS but Im not gonna get this any time soon - my videogame backlog is just too big right now, got myself a Vita and Persone 4 Golden and Danganronpa just suck me in, besides I gotta finish Batman Arkham Knight first, and with Xenoblade and Tales of Zestiria on the horizon I doubt I will be playing this any time soon...
Be thankful Konami decided not to close the door on us this time round. Never say be game over.
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