Overview
- Number of Players
- Single Player (16 Player Online)
- Genre
- Action
- Release Date
PlayStation 4
- 1st Sep 2015 (USA)
- 1st Sep 2015 (UK/EU)
- Series
- Metal Gear Solid
- Tags
- Stealth, E3 2015
- Official Site
- konami.com
Screenshots (20)
Reviews
Review Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
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...
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...
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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