This game requires investigative skills, stealth and cunning as well as head on, face to face combat skills. For example, you’ll have to clear a field of land mines to protect the locals, or decide whether to take on the child soldiers you’ll encounter at a later stage of the game. Within the overarching plot there also a multitude of side-missions, just in case you don’t have enough to do already. Wish my house was like that…Īnyway, the game develops depending on the choices you make, and the success or failure you make of those choices.
The base is an actual place, not some metaphor for life and it seems to increase indefinitely, depending on how you use it.
So as an example, enemy soldiers you capture can all be taken back to your base (which expands as the game progresses and you fill it with an increasing amount of ‘stuff’) and trained up to be deployed in one of your research teams – useful if you’re trying to gather intel, or develop new weapons, for example. So, every weapon you commandeer, every prisoner-of-war you capture, anything else you happen to find while out in the field, can all contribute to your success, or failure. The space given to you is eerily large, intimidating almost, particularly given the relative linearity of previous Metal Gear offerings.īig Boss is essentially a lone wolf, but all of your actions in this game are centred on building your empire, that is, the aforementioned private military contractor organisation. The open-world of The Phantom Pain, however, is vastly expanded upon and is, quite simply, huge. Of course, many of you will already be familiar with the massively successful franchise, so some of this version will be familiar to you, for example the Reflex Mode, which gives you a few seconds of slow-motion, ‘gather your thoughts’ time once you’ve been spotted by a guard and allows you a wee chance at least to incapacitate him first. I’m not here to delve into the finer psychology of mass murderers or power hungry despots. Just kill whoever you’ve been asked to kill or blow up whatever you’ve been asked to blow up and everyone will be happy. The action primarily takes place in Afghanistan and Zaire, and it’s important you remember that there is no ‘just cause’ or ‘greater good’. Big Boss isn’t particularly bothered about ethics or morality – if the request comes in, generally it will be responded to. Doesn’t it sound like fun to play in a game where you get to be known as Big Boss? No further details needed, surely? Oh, go on then, what else is there to know about Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (what an awesome title)?Īs Big Boss, you’re the leader of a private military contractor organisation who takes on ‘freelance’ contracts ranging from rescuing prisoners of war in Russia, to blowing up strategic military assets on behalf of world leaders.
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