“You will not get used to it all?" – Ozell passes the Snayka a flask of water, and he hardly takes it with a red prosthesis. Not so long ago, he still lay in a coma after the events Ground Zeroes , And now he has three days to save Miller Cazuhira. It seems ten days to be held captive at one of the Soviet bases in Afghanistan. If it is not found in the allotted time, the chance will take revenge. And then that's it, Time Paradox.
In a dark small room, two people from Kojima Station Show journalists a living gameplay Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Fitzdares Casino Pain on PS4. It’s simply impossible to tear yourself away.
Snake opens IDroid, clearly modified since GZ, notes points on the map and plans to save the fact that. The map is just incredible sizes. No wonder Kojima boasted that the territory of The Phantom Pain will be larger than all the locations of past parts combined.
The horse under Snake, meanwhile, is busy with his own affairs – knowing yourself defeats in real time.
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Kept You Waiting, Huh?
At last year's E3, the fifth MGS set a tone for the expectations of fans: we will find something gloomy, realistic and extremely serious. No jokes and stealth clock. When the prologue Ground Zeroes came out, everything was confirmed: the Metal Gear Solid was not darker yet (side missions did not count). And in the new trailer, Kodzima remained faithful to himself: the gloomy Snake is coated with the ashes of the fallen warriors, the battlefield turned into a feast of vultures, in each frame – pain, blood and Greek tragedy. We clearly await the unprecedented intensity of passions, psychologism and shock. You can only applaud such work by standing.
Oh, look, Snape put a Fulton heavenly hook on the lamb!
► If the box attracts the attention of the patrol, from under it you can downs out in an instant-and quietly get around the wise guy from the flank.
When you take to compare The Phantom Pain with the past games of the series, you immediately recall the golden time when the whole world was waiting for MGS 3. Kojima promised to bring the game to a new level, make locations spacious and diverse. So it happened: Snake Eater I delighted with its scale. In the dense Soviet jungle of Tselinoyarsk (in Metal Gear and it doesn’t happen) it was possible to get lost and pour into a completely optional location with a storage warehouse, patrols and a pretty hut.
Ground Zeroes reproduced this effect. She made the players feel like chicks who barely hatched from the egg – the difference between her freedom and the freedom of previous parts is so great. And now Phantom Pain says: "Soon you also learn to fly".
► Afghanistan wasteland cannot be called empty. Everything is drawn to the details, I want to explore each meter personally, for each door – to look. Kojima is still a maniac when it comes to the smallest detail. By the way, patrol on the way Snake speak their native language.
Peace Walker in the new generation
In 2010, PSP entered Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker. Many fans of the series took her without proper interest – simply because it is not a number of rooms, but a “miserable portable”. But Peace Walker added a lot of interesting things to the MGS concept. Hideo Kojima always considered this release one of the integral parts of the saga, and Phantom Pain is largely based on its finds.
Kojima does the same as always: gives the world a new MGS. That is, this is an old kind game that can be recognized from the fly in a crowd of imitators. But at the same time – a completely new experience. No Ground Zeroes will save you: the scale of the innovations is colossal, and in a year we will fall into a unique, albeit native, game. For the fifth time in a row.
► If the Nuclear trailer is dedicated to the price of retaliation and the horrors of war, then the nature of the closed demonstration is somewhat brighter. Mgs v, like predecessors, can be considered from different angles – and always see only part of the overall picture.
As in Peace Walker, Snake actively uses the Fulton Recovery System Heavenly hook. How he works, you could see in the film “The Dark Knight” when Batman personally extradited the cunning Chinese mafioso. This is a small balloon, which is filled with helium on command and flies to where the owner’s air transport awaits it. Snake does not have to run with bodies and think where to hide them. While in your pocket there are “full tons”, any enemy can be quickly and painlessly deported from the location, enjoying its scared cries. Whether these cries of surrounding soldiers hear? Well … not very.
What was to be expected, absurd humor will not go anywhere. Now you can cling to the hook, including animals, cars and containers. This simultaneously gives scope for experiments and tactics and makes you almost fall from the chair at the sight of flying sheep. The hook works in the opposite direction: you can order yourself something like that straight from heaven. For example, ammunition box. By the way, if you indicate the landing point on which the enemy stands, the box will fall upon him, and the unfortunate will lose consciousness.
► “Subtult” here you can do everything that is not nailed with nails. How much of this real benefit, we will find out ourselves. ► When you personally look at The Phantom Pain, its prologue seems to be a miserable pinch. But even it could be replaced for hours.
You can send the good old “camouflage” box to heaven if the Snake needs to quickly get out of it. In general, progress does not stand still, and while Big Boss was lying in a coma, there was a box in the technology of manufacturing boxes New breakthrough. Now you can sharply open its lid and stand with a weapon ready. We aim at the enemy passing by, and he puts the machine gun on the ground and hugs the back of his head with his hands. In this position, it will stand the whole game if it is not found associates. And we can hide in the box again and continue the operation to save Miller.
Variable weather conditions are impressive. Say, sand storms are covered by the opponents of the eyes, giving the player an advantage. At least the factor of novelty and spoiled by the memory of Splinter Cell: Double Agent, The level of execution is not comparable. And, of course, time is ticking, the day is replaced at night, and this adds another layer to the already complex system. To manage time, Snape carries an electronic cigarette with it, which does not attract the attention of enemies (there is no smell), but emits a cute holographic smoke. In her company, Big Boss can paint the clock, waiting for a convenient time for the next step. But do not hope that everything will always be reduced to “marked enemies, lit up on the sidelines, cut everyone at night”. At night, the security is reinforced, so sometimes it’s better to wait for the morning – it all depends on the situation. Binoculars to help you!
► to attract the attention of patrolmen, Snake needs a prosthesis and … all. He just starts to twist his wrist, making a loud rattle. ► In front of our eyes, Snake provoked the patrol, and the alarm turned on … with a delay. It's nice to see that the mistakes of Ground Zeroes are gradually corrected.
THIS IS INTERESTING: Snake’s electronic cigarette was clearly developed by Hugh Emmerik, the father of Otakon, because in PEACE Walker he had already appeared with such. Hugh offered a Snake to try, but he decided to refrain from experiments – he, you see, give the real. It will be interesting to find out why he eventually changed his mind.
External heaven: beginning
But not “fullton” one – PEACE Walker had another, much more important, feature picked up from Mgs: Portable OPS. Yes, we are talking about the management of the base. And here Mgs V will force the faint of heart to literally squeaver with delight: the base is now real! That Mother Base, which we see in the trailer, has become an independent location, and it can be equipped and improved at its own discretion.
This was expected, but when you see the base with your own eyes, puppy joy directly bursts! The configuration of its appearance is details up to the choice of color, so each has its own vision of the prototype Outer Heaven. The base can be rebuilt, improve and explore different things on it, and in their free time to arrange walks and enjoy the results of labors. At the sight of Big Boss, soldiers are honorably honor – you feel almost like in Overlord 2, Only now everything is seriously.
► Recruitment you have recruited can train at the shooting range, and Snake can help them improve shooting skills and CQC.
All fighters and other goats that you hooked with a hook, now here, at the base. They stand over, are waiting for their fate. A soldier, as before, can be recruited, thereby replenishing his private army, Diamond Dogs. If you played Peace Walker, then the basics know: there will be different detachments that perform their own functions from reconnaissance to cooking. The troops management can now be engaged directly through Idroid. Improving the database and services of soldiers (for example, collect data on the terrain before the mission), by the way, fly into a penny. Well, you can replenish resources by collecting diamonds.
► The memory of the second part makes the whole cholempire hate the flying "cephars", but here they are looking exclusively by our enemies.
This is diamond: The name Diamond Dogs refers to the album of the same name by David Bowie released on April 24, 1974. Thematically, it was the union of the novel “1984” by George Orwell and his own, Glam-painted, vision of Bowie of the post-apocalyptic world.
Knowing the native base is not only pleasant, but it is also necessary – they may attack it, which happened at the end of the demonstration. Who will attack? Depends on your actions on the missions. We will clearly invade the sphere of interests of different fractions, and if the Snake begins to behave too defiantly, they will knock on us too. In order not to repeat the Ground Zeroes catastrophe, the features of the base need to know the nazuok – only then the defense will pass with maximum efficiency.
► Players will be able not only to boast, comparing whose Mother Base is cooler, but also to attack each other's bases. Actually invade other people's sessions, just like in Dark Souls. We live in an amazing time.
Snake king
Someone may disappoint the fact that Kojima did not sacrifice his famous handwriting for the sake of one hundred percent “Suria”. But when the MGS formula stopped working? Even on the scale of a limited presentation, the game is in the nose atmosphere of a tactical spy militant. Everything is living here, you believe everything, you perceive everything seriously.
The ability to turn game conventions into organic elements of the surrounding reality is still talent, especially against the backdrop of the universal desire of the developers to make a stone face and try by hook or by crook to convince us that pixel men are very real. It turns out that it turns out: monotonous and faceless crafts, because the blind pursuit of reality kills imagination. Kojima has enough impudence in any generation of consoles to write on the forehead of the Snake “I am just a game” – and make the players with their heads go to the original world of this game.
The result of this E3 was obvious: the players can again gnaw their nails on the elbow. Hideo Kojima not only forced us to watch a fantastically beautiful and living trailer for hours, asking new questions about the plot, but also showed that Metal Gear Solid is true to himself. A deep and dramatic story is still balanced by peppy Japanese absurdity, balancing on the verge of a foul – and joking conventions do not interfere with the name of Metal Gear Solid V an extremely realistic game. She again creates her own unique world of drama and comedy, realism and conventions – and this world is surprisingly monolithic.
Success factors
Risk factors
- History should connect the beginning of the history of Big Boss with the very first Metal Gear and close the cycle;
- Beautiful and unbearable drama – as always with Kojima;
- gameplay is incredibly flexible and diverse;
- It will come out at once on PS4 and Xbox One;
- This is Metal Gear Solid.
- Not all the shortcomings of Ground Zeroes are eliminated;
- Want to understand the plot without playing in previous parts? Good luck!