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Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain announced

Metal Gear Solid V is both The Phantom Pain and Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes combined.

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Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain has been announced at GDC.

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Speaking on stage during Kojima Productions' presentation on its new Fox engine, director Hideo Kojima says Metal Gear Solid V is both Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes and The Phantom Pain combined. Snake has been in a coma for nine years, and awakens in hospital at the start of the game alongside Ishmael, the figure from The Phantom Pain whose face is in covered in bandages.

During the gameplay demo, which is set in the Metal Gear Solid V's tutorial level, Snake can't walk or move properly due to his comatose state. When he regains his mobility Metal Gear Solid V will become an open-world game, says Kojima.

Showing the first trailer for Metal Gear Solid V, footage from previous Ground Zeroes and The Phantom Pain trailers were spliced together alongside a handful of new scenes. Longtime series character Kazuhira Miller is also seen in the trailer.

It is currently unclear if David Hayter is reprising his role as Snake.

Kojima Productions first teased The Phantom Pain at the Spike VGA awards, saying the game was in development at Moby Dick Studios. Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes was announced in August 2012 during the Metal Gear Solid 25th Anniversary event in Tokyo.

The game was shown running on PC using Kojima's new FOX Engine, but the trailer showed logos for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.

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Has Kojima Productions learned NOTHING from George Lucas?

Then again, the third game was called "Snake Eater," and while the title sucked, the game was incredible. So I guess Kojima gets a pass for idiotic titles.

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@SecularSage Its not idiotic, its just too much for your brain understand =).


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@SecularSage it's not idiotic..it's symbolism.. SNAKE EATER meant.. killing off the COBRA UNIT.. now PHANTOM PAIN meant..cloning,amputation,killing without remorse

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@SecularSage How did the title to MGS 3 suck? To be honest I thought the name on it was cool.

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@emptycow @wcwj26 @queuing_for_PS4 Comparing 7 yo current gen to 4 month next gen.

Desperate fail!

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@Random_Matt@WantYouBad@emptycow@wcwj26@queuing_for_PS4

new consoles? I say MEH. I see no reason to be excited and fighting over the new Playfacebook4 and PeepBox 720 or nintablet. since xbox, consoles started forgetting what they are and they are getting worse. your rants and rumblings are for nothing more than small pieces of corporate plastic.

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@wcwj26 @emptycow @queuing_for_PS4 top selling wiiu and wii games this week sorry the wii ,wiiu have not even one game in the top 10 this week lets see what number sonys at oh look number 1 top selling game this week is god of warAscension with over 600.000 copies sold this week alone lol you got it wrong dude the only thing people are doing with the wiiu and wii is Regretting they even got the fucking things

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@WantYouBad @Random_Matt @emptycow @wcwj26 @queuing_for_PS4 They probably are, however, i am mostly a pc gamer, therefore, no favoritism towards any side.

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I would like for David Hayter to continue his role.

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@Infinite_713 yeah really makes me wonder, maybe JUST maybe

solid snake is going to appear in these games and that's why they gave big boss a different voice actor, like in metal gear solid 4

I mean, they can't have solid and big boss talking with the same voice at each other, right? ;P

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@Infinite_713 hope so !!!!

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@Random_Matt @emptycow @wcwj26 @queuing_for_PS4

When it fails for a long as PS3 or Vita thenl I'll worry. Until then I'll enjoy what it's launch has to offer!

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@MasterPS4 You must have a lot of tabs loaded on your browser or you are just plain trolling.

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stop commentinggggggggggg

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@FlameEmperor @emptycow Exactly, how Andrew House and Kaz Hirai have still got a job I'll never know. My nan could do a better job at running Playstation than those 2 idiots!

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@Goombario64 @lowdan666 sure but that doesn´t mean he can´t have phantom pain ask some people that suffered such a fate ( no offense intended)

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Kojima..........Y U NO PC ??!!

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