Metal Gear Solid 5 has Phantom Pain

Hideo Kojima has announced that The Phantom Pain and Ground Zeroes together will constitute as Metal Gear Solid 5.

The six minute trailer of the game, which I’m sure you saw a few weeks ago (if not this is embedded below), combined footage from both games and eventually revealed itself to indeed be MGS5.

The hospital section is the tutorial of the game itself and is set around ‘Snake’ (although this could likely be Big Boss) waking from a 9 year coma. The section gives the player the overview of activity and has Snake following the voice of someone called Ishmael. The trailer had shown flashes of how Snake came to end up in the hospital, apparently rescuing Ishmael from a firefight.

The trailer itself didn't show a whole lot of footage that wasn't in the previous Ground Zeroes demo shown at the Eurogamer Expo last year or from the Phantom Pain trailer released at the VGAs – however it did give us various other morsels of information to speculate about before Kojima speaks about the game again.

There is a lot more to the trailer than I’ve noted here but watch it for yourself as it really is worth 6 minutes of your time.

The rest of the Kojima Productions session at GDC largely focused on the FOX Engine that powers Metal Gear Solid 5. It isn’t surprising to see that these games are looking lovely as the engine is designed for photorealistic asset models.

Although not a lot is known about the new MGS games the trailer gives us plenty of reason to speculate. It certainly looks like a next-gen game especially with a new engine – I mean what is the point of all that investment if we have, at best, 12 months of the current generation left.

UPDATE – apparently I am wrong as Konami have confirmed that the games will release on PS3 and Xbox 360. Maybe this is being created as a cross generation game. I still can’t see MGS not hitting the next batch of hardware.