After almost a year of teasing, Konami’s Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain game was officially confirmed at the Game Developers Conference (GDC).
As many had suspected, revealed during the Spike Video Game Awards 2012, The Phantom Pain is actually a new Metal Gear Solid game. Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain has been confirmed by Kojima Productions boss Hideo Kojima on a GDC panel.
The game will consist of two previously hinted games, Phantom Pain and Ground Zeroes, but the latter could be released before Metal Gear Solid 5.
“Ground Zeroes is a prologue to MGS V. Nine years after that event comes The Phantom Pain,” Kojima explained after the GDC reveal.
“Following the success of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, we have extremely high expectations for Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain,” said Konami President Tomoyuki Tsuboi in an official press release. “We hope to use the Fox Engine to expand and revolutionize the Metal Gear Solid franchise while providing fans with the high quality and immersive experience they have come to expect from Kojima Productions.”
In the teaser trailer, Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain will see Snake, who has been in a coma for nine years, waking up in a hospital and then having to flee from an unknown enemy.
After being in a coma for so long, Snake is understandably unsteady on his feet, so he spends most of his escape and demonstration at GDC crawling across the floor. Snake is then helped by a bandaged-faced man named Ismael, said to be voiced by Keifer Sutherland.
Described as an open-world game, Konami has confirmed that Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain will be coming to Xbox 360 and PS3. It has yet to be announced if the game will launch on next-gen consoles like the PS4.
The game was unveiled as part of Konami’s demonstration of its Fox Engine, which will power the latest installment in the acclaimed series.
An official release date has yet to be announced, as well as more details on what the game’s storyline will entail. In the meantime, fans will have to be content with the teaser trailer and gameplay demonstration.
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