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Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes is an upcoming action-adventure stealth video game developed by Kojima Productions and produced by Konami. It will be part of the tenth main entry in the Metal Gear series, taking place after Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker. Ground Zeroes will stand alone as the first half to Metal Gear Solid V, acting as the prologue for the upcoming Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain.

 

Gameplay

As in Peace Walker, Ground Zeroes will offer a base-building feature that allows player to develop weapons and items from their virtual motherbase. The player is also given the ability to access the motherbase from their real-life smartphones. Series director Hideo Kojima revealed that the game has a new day and night cycle that runs in real-time, and that "depending on how you travel between one stage to the next, the travel time will affect the time of day when you arrive at your destination". A new gameplay direction will allow the player to choose in what order the story events take place by selecting missions in any order they like, and yet still "understand the encompassing message by the end".

Kojima has spoken about the restrictive nature of previous Metal Gear titles, saying that they "set [the player] on one rail to get from point A to point B, with a certain amount of freedom between". In stark contrast, Kojima's team will instead offer the player new ways of traversal and sneaking methods, such as taking a plane, helicopter or motorcycle to the mission area. This is in order for Kojima to accomplish a "true open world experience" with Ground Zeroes.

 

Premise

Ground Zeroes will take place in 1975, some months after Peace Walker. It stars series protagonist Big Boss (or simply Snake) as he works with the Militaires Sans Frontieres to infiltrate an American black site on Cuban soil called Camp Omega. Snake's mission objectives include searching for the Cipher agent Paz Ortega Andrade, who had survived her fight with Snake in Peace Walker and also rescuing Chico Libre, the young boy from Peace Walker who attempted his own rescue operation but was captured as well. Sometime during his mission, MSF's mother base is attacked by the shadow organization XOF, lead by Skull Face. The events from Ground Zeroes will result in Big Boss's characterization undergoing a major change.