METAL GEAR SOLID V: THE PHANTOM PAIN
In the stealth game METAL GEAR SOLID V: THE PHANTOM PAIN you can strap a tranquilized guard to a balloon and send him to your base, where he joins your side. Prisoners, vehicles and even sheep fly off the same way.
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The game was announced under someone else's name. In December 2012 a trailer for The Phantom Pain came out from a Swedish outfit called Moby Dick Studio, supposedly led by a Joakim, a name that turned out to be an anagram of Kojima. In spring 2013 an actor playing the bandaged “studio head” got nervous when the host spotted the Fox Engine logo in the screenshots. Soon after, Kojima admitted it was a way to see how people took his engine without the Metal Gear name.
It was his last game at Konami: in March 2015 it announced it was parting ways with Kojima and took his name off the cover.
Critics praised the systems, while the story split them. Reviewers disliked having to replay old missions on a higher difficulty to reach the final ones, and the cut Episode 51 only survived as a video in the Collector's Edition. Players give it 91% positive across 73,693 reviews, critics 91 on Metacritic. In our Recommended Score it ranks 56 of 4,736 games.
Liked it? Try METAL GEAR SOLID V: GROUND ZEROES, the prologue released a year earlier, and METAL GEAR SOLID Δ: SNAKE EATER, a remake of the third game, where the series timeline begins in 1964.
System requirements
Minimum GTX 650 2 GB · 4 GB RAM · 28 GBiSteam Deck PlayableMin & recommended
| Minimum | Recommended | |
|---|---|---|
| OS | Windows 7x64, Windows 8x64, Windows 10x64 (64-bit OS Required) | Windows 7x64, Windows 8x64, Windows 10x64 (64-bit OS Required) |
| Processor | Intel Core i5-4460 (3.40 GHz) or better; Quad-core or better | Intel Core i7-4790 (3.60GHz) or better; Quad-core or better |
| Memory | 4 GB | 8 GB |
| Graphics | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 (2GB) or better (DirectX 11 card Required) | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 (DirectX 11 graphic card required) |
| DirectX | 11 | 11 |
| Storage | 28 GB | 28 GB |
From the game’s Steam store page.
