Metal Gear Solid 5 – The Phantom Pain [Watch Trailer]

For a sizable number of stealth gaming fanatics, the world exploded on Wednesday, and the epicentre was San Francisco. 

Metal Gear Solid V has been announced. Hideo Kojima, the series creator, was speaking at the Game Developers Conference when he revealed that previously hinted games The Phantom Pain and Ground Zeroes were both, in fact, part of MGS V.

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Konami is being secretive on how the previously separate titles will combine, but both will be integral to the experience. After the GDC session, Kojima himself explained, "Ground Zeroes is a prologue of MGS V.

Nine years after that event will be The Phantom Pain. MGS V is constructed with prologue and main game, TPP. The game play demo I presented today is the opening of TPP which is tutorial". However this works out in practice, the full title of the game is Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain and it will be coming to Xbox and PS3 at an unspecified date in the future.

The story begins in hospital with Snake (or Big Boss depending on how the timeline fits together) waking up after almost a decade in a coma. He's weak and disorientated – and almost immediately under attack, prompting an escape bid from the building. Kojima describes Phantom Pain as an open-world game, with complete freedom for the player.