Metal Gear
Solid V: Ground Zeroes is an action-adventure stealth game developed by Kojima Productions,
produced by Konami, released for PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One and PC via Steam. It is part of a sub-series of
prequels in the Metal Gear series,
taking place afterMetal
Gear Solid: Peace Walker. Ground Zeroes stands
alone as the first part of Metal Gear Solid V, acting as the
prologue for the upcoming Metal
Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. The game follows Snake as
he infiltrates a fictional American black site in Cuba called Camp Omega,
attempting to rescue Cipher agent Paz
Ortega Andrade and Sandinista child soldier Ricardo
"Chico" Valenciano Libre.
The game offers players new methods of
sneaking and traversal methods as well as the choice in what order the story
events take place by selecting missions in any order they like. The game was
originally set to be released alongside The Phantom Pain but
an extended development time resulted in director Hideo Kojima splitting the project in
two parts so that players will get an early access to Metal Gear Solid V.
Critical reception to the game has been generally positive with praise aimed
towards its mechanics, voice-acting, story, and graphics, with criticism aimed
towards its short length.
Gameplay
Snake avoiding
a searchlight. Ground Zeroes introduces new visual aesthetics
that allow players to recognize threats more easily, such as this lens flare.
Players control Snake through the game map and complete
missions while avoiding being spotted by the enemy. The threat detection system
is revamped, with the removal of the onscreen meter or gauge to indicate the
player that they are in the 'alert/evasion/caution' state as in previous games,
which have instead been replaced by visual representations. Snake's binoculars
have also been revamped; instead of selecting the binoculars as an item, the
binoculars are hot keyed to a button. The player is able to mark enemies and be
aware of their locations in the iDroid's holographic display. There are
directional cues to help players when an enemy sees them from a distance and
gets closer to them. A new "Reflex Mode" is activated when an enemy
finds Snake and the player only has a short window of time (in slow motion) to
take out the enemy before he fully sounds the alarm (a hissing audio cue can be
heard if the player is detected by searchlight). Lights can be shot out to
further aid the player's stealth efforts.
Ground Zeroes features seven missions in total, locked
at individual levels. After completing the main mission the player will unlock
four subsequent missions (referred to as "Side Ops") set at different
points in the day, all set in Camp Omega. These missions involve specific
tasks, such as eliminating certain targets or obtaining classified information.
After achieving a certain objective in the main mission, the player may unlock
two additional "Extra Op" missions.
As the game is introductory in nature, being a prologue,
the core story mission can be completed in a very short time frame. However,
the game has many additional challenges, missions and alternative methods of
play.
A special iDroid app has been made to help players access
the in-game map and iDroid functions on their iOS or Android gadgets. Series
creator Hideo Kojima said using the gadgets eliminates the danger of being
killed while using the iDroid in-game (which does not pause the game) The
Mother Base is only a part of the plot and does not feature in gameplay. Kojima
states that the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions of the game have social
community features to allow a player to look at other players' performance in
the game, even showing where they were killed on the map.
Atmospheric weather and lighting in Ground Zeroes is
mission-proprietary, meaning that the setting of the game depends on the
individual mission being played. A real-time day and night cycle was
originally planned for the game, but left out in favor of fully utilizing it in The
Phantom Pain.
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 contrast, Kojima's team will instead offer the player new
ways of traversal and sneaking methods, such as taking a jeep,
a car, or a helicopter around the mission area. This is in order for Kojima to
accomplish a "true open world experience" with Ground Zeroes.
Plot
Metal Gear series
fictional chronology
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·
1964
– Snake
Eater
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1970
– Portable
Ops
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1974
– Peace
Walker
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1975
– Ground Zeroes
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1984
– The
Phantom Pain
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1995
– Metal Gear
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1999
– Solid Snake
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2005
– Metal Gear Solid
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2007/09
– Sons
of Liberty
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2014
– Guns
of the Patriots
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2018
– Rising:
Revengeance
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Setting
Set in March 1975, a few months after the events of Peace Walker, players control returning protagonist Snake, also known as Big Boss (Kiefer Sutherland/Akio Ōtsuka), as he works with Militaires Sans Frontières (commonly abbreviated as MSF) to infiltrate an American black site on Cuban soil called Camp Omega. Once used as a refugee camp for people fleeing Cuba and Haiti, Camp Omega is home to an old prison that is being used for extraordinary rendition as it has no legal recognition under the United States Constitution. Snake's main objectives are the extraction of Paz Ortega Andrade (Tara Strong/Nana Mizuki), who has information regarding the whereabouts of the person or persons known as Cipher; and Ricardo "Chico" Valenciano Libre (Antony Del Rio/Kikuko Inoue), a Sandinista and former child soldier who was captured by Skull Face (James Horan/Takaya Hashi), the commander of paramilitary force XOF, who are in control of Camp Omega. Snake's mission is supported by Kazuhira "Kaz" Miller (Robin Atkin Downes/Tomokazu Sugita) and Huey (Christopher Randolph/Hideyuki Tanaka) from MSF's Mother Base in the Caribbean Sea.
Story
In the aftermath of the Peace Walker incident, Paz Ortega Andrade is missing and presumed to be dead. Under the direction of Kazuhira Miller and Huey, Militaires Sans Frontières turn their attention to an upcoming inspection by the UN amid suspicions that they possess a nuclear weapon, which MSF believe to be an attempt by the Cipher organization to stifle them. Their preparations are interrupted when MSF agents in Cuba investigate reports that Paz survived and has been detained at Camp Omega. The situation is complicated when Ricardo "Chico" Valenciano Libre attempts to rescue her and is similarly captured. Believing that both of them could compromise MSF, Snake is sent to infiltrate Camp Omega and extract them if they are alive, or confirm that they are dead and if so, determine what they revealed to their captors. Snake also recognizes the value in rescuing Paz, as he believes doing so will convince Cipher to stand down while Paz will be more willing to discuss Cipher's activities with MSF.
Snake
infiltrates Camp Omega as a mysterious Special Forces unit known as XOF
departs. He locates and extracts Chico, who claims Paz is dead. Using a
recording that Chico gives him, Snake and Miller deduce that Paz is alive, and
was moved deeper into the camp. He sneaks into Camp Omega and manages to rescue
Paz as well, with the group escaping via an MSF helicopter designated Morpho One.
However, on the way back to Mother Base, Chico discovers that Paz was
surgically implanted with a bomb, prompting Snake and an MSF medic to remove it
by hand. They then arrive to Mother Base to see it in flames as XOF forces
attack. Morpho One lands long enough for Snake to rescue Miller, who claims
that the UN inspection was nothing but a ruse for the XOF ambush, which razes
Mother Base. As they attempt to escape XOF, Paz regains consciousness and warns
everybody that there is a second bomb inside her body. Knowing that she is
about to die, she jumps out, trying to throw herself clear of the helicopter.
She succeeds, but the explosion causes Morpho to spiral out of control and
collide with a pursuing XOF helicopter.
The epilogue
reveals that the United States government downplayed MSF's destruction and
attempted to cover up their dealings with the organization, as do many of MSF's
clients. There are no known survivors of the assault, apart from Snake, Miller,
and Huey.
In a
post-credits scene, set prior to Snake's arrival at Camp Omega, Paz is being
interrogated by Skull Face, who demands the whereabouts of Cipher—also known as Zero—as
Paz had met Zero in person. Paz eventually gives in and agrees to tell him
Zero's location before the scene ends.
Side Ops
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Ground Zeroes also contains four additional missions, known as Side Ops, that take place in the weeks before the events of the main storyline. In the game's universe, they are labelled "pseudo-historical recreations", owing to the game recycling its Camp Omega environment when it should be viewed as an entirely different locale. In the first mission, Snake is sent to a U.S. naval prison facility in Cuba to eliminate or extract a Marine Corps sniper team hiding at the facility to avoid extradition to Laos, where they stand accused of war crimes. Suspicious about the facility's purpose, MSF station a spy—revealed to be the series' creator, Hideo Kojima, reprising a similar cameo in Peace Walker—in the camp, who requests an emergency evacuation. Snake provides support from the air long enough for him to escape. Unable to plant another agent of their own, MSF send Snake in to make contact with an undercover informant posing as a guard. He discovers that the informant has set a trap for him, but is able to secure a recording made by the guard. Finally, with evidence that the base is an illegal black site, Snake returns in advance of an airborne assault to sabotage the facility's anti-aircraft defences. Although he is successful, the promised assault is replaced by an airstrike, leaving him stranded in the middle of the base with fighter jets inbound. After escaping, he and Kaz Miller speculate that the entire affair—from the camp's conversion to a black site to the aborted assault—were a series of plots orchestrated by Cipher, first to establish a compound outside any legal jurisdiction and later to disrupt Militaires Sans Frontières' operations.
Development
In February 2012, a site named "Development Without
Borders" owned by Konami was uploaded promoting development for a new Metal
Gear title, which was titled "The "next" MGS". The
site was recruiting staff for the 2012 GDC pavilion
in March, and requested applications for several positions for the latest Metal
Gear Solid targeted for "high-end consoles and PC" and
"next-gen Fox engine". As the year went on, screenshots and
videos of the newly announced Fox Engine were unveiled by the team. This
media demonstrated a range of settings and characters, none explicitly related
to the Metal Gear series. Certain screenshots, however, were
noted to feature a character who resembled the Big Boss character of Metal
Gear, walking up to a Stryker AFV previously
seen in Metal Gear Solid 4.
The game was later announced on August 30, 2012
originally under the name of Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes. It
was revealed at a private function celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of
the Metal Gear series, and made its public debut two days
later at the 2012 Penny Arcade Expo. Director Hideo Kojima confirmed that Big Boss would
return as the game's protagonist, and that the story would serve as a prologue
to another game in the series. It will be the first game to utilise the Fox game engine developed by Kojima
Productions. The Japanese version of the game features an English text
option, rendering in-game menus and subtitled dialogue in full English.
This would make it possible to play the game with the Japanese voice cast
accompanied by English text. Ground Zeroes was also the first
title in the series subtitled in Arabic, a feature the team had originally
planned for previous games. In addition, he also confirmed that the length
of the cutscenes will be reduced as he believes that long cutscenes have become
outdated. According to Famitsu, real dogs
were used for motion capture during the development of the game's opening
scenes, in addition to Konami confirming that part of Hideo Kojima's direction
was influenced by AKB48 music videos,
most notably the usage of sideways lens flares.
Ground Zeroes and The Phantom Pain were
originally supposed to be released together, but The Phantom Pain 's long
development time resulted in Kojima splitting the project into two parts to
allow players to experience the gameplay of Metal Gear Solid V prior
to the full game's release. Kojima compared Ground Zeroes with
the pre-title sequence in a Hollywood movie due to how it will build up the
plot from The Phantom Pain. Kojima claimed that his aim was to
target taboos and mature themes, which he considered to be "quite
risky", adding that his roles as creator and producer were in conflict
with one another; as creator, Kojima wanted to take the risk of exploring
themes that might alienate audiences, but as producer, he had to be able to
tone down the content in order to sell as many copies of the game as possible.
Ultimately, the role of creator won out, and Kojima described his approach as
"prioritising creativity over sales". Kojima has described the
connections and differences between Ground Zeroes and The
Phantom Pain. Stating that "the advanced capabilities of the FOX
Engine have allowed me to tell the new story in a new way," and that
"there will be a significant difference in what The Phantom Pain brings
to the series, so we want to ease players into the new open world environment
and its potential", hoping to achieve that with Ground Zeroes.
Release
Originally, a physical release was limited to PlayStation
3 and Xbox 360, while the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One would only be receiving a
digital release, but on December 10, 2013 it was announced that
PlayStation 4 and Xbox One would also receive physical releases. The
positive sales from Peace Walker in Japan resulted in Kazuhira
Miller being added to the cover alongside Snake. However, due to the same game's
poor sales in the west, Miller does not appear on the English cover.
As part of a dual-exclusivity deal, the initial release
of the two Extra Ops were locked between the PlayStation and Xbox platforms.
PlayStation consoles featured the "Deja Vu" mission, which allows
players to control a recreation of Solid Snake's model from the original Metal Gear Solid as he explores a
version of Camp Omega that is similar to Shadow Moses Island and contains
familiar elements and characters from the game, such as Psycho Mantis. The Xbox consoles
featured the "Jamais Vu" mission, starring Raiden as
he appears in Metal
Gear Rising: Revengeance, who is tasked with eliminating "body snatchers" at Camp Omega. Both
of these missions were made available to all platforms as a free patch on May
1, 2014.
The Australian and New Zealand release of Ground
Zeroes was delayed to March 27. It was reported that various New
Zealand retailers had delayed their release dates and contacted Konami, who
confirmed the situation.
On August 13 2014, Konami announced that Ground
Zeroes, along with The Phantom Pain, will be released on Steam. Ground Zeroes was
released on December 18, 2014, while a PC release date for The Phantom
Pain has not yet been announced.
Reception
Critical reception
Reception
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Metal Gear
Solid V: Ground Zeroes has received generally positive
reviews from critics. Aggregating review websites Game Rankings and Metacritic gave the Xbox 360 version
80.00%, the PlayStation 4 version 75.23% and 75/100, the PlayStation
3 version 73.57% and 66/100 and the Xbox One version 72.50% and 76/100.
GameSpot felt that the new stealth
mechanics in Ground Zeroes, such as the replacement of the radar
and other indicators with binoculars and radio communication, made its overall
gameplay more "immersive" than previous installments, noting that
"nothing is simply handed to you, and Ground Zeroes is a
far more tense and rewarding experience for it." Its open world format and
side missions were also praised for adding a large amount of flexibility and
replay value to the game, concluding that "though it's unusual for
everything to take place in a single location, there's so much to do and see,
and whether you take a stealthy or head-on approach, infiltrating Camp Omega is
a thrilling experience that shouldn't be missed." IGN shared
similar praise, describing it as a "stripped down" game which
"avoids lengthy cutscenes, climactic boss fights, and the usual frayed and
tangled plot strands in favour of smart, tactical gameplay." The length of
the main campaign was noted as being short, but it was acknowledged that while
the array of side missions and bonus objectives may only appeal to
"score-chasers", "there’s certainly plenty of content here to
satisfy." Robert Rath, a columnist at The Escapist,
praised the game's emphasis on collecting information over gunfights and
combat, saying "… Ground Zeroes is the first MGS game to
live up to its subtitle and actually allow you to conduct tactical espionage
operations." Jim Sterling of The Escapist praised
the gameplay and expressed anticipation for Metal Gear Solid V: The
Phantom Pain, but was highly critical of its length, describing it as a
game demo and expressing shock that Konami had seen fit to sell.
Polygon was more critical, considering
it "staggeringly short and unsatisfying, feeling more like a cash grab
than an honest-to-goodness installment in a beloved franchise." Although
praising its overall audiovisual design and attention to detail, Ground
Zeroes was criticized for the changes made to its stealth mechanics,
its "half-baked" action sequences, and the extremely short length of
the game's main campaign, which was further criticized for being
"dull" and "underwhelming" Ben Croshaw of Zero Punctuation called it a "$40
demo" with "half an hour of gameplay", but noted that he
"enjoyed what little game there was".
Despite her
praise for the game, IGN's Lucy O'Brien was extremely critical
of some of the narrative elements. While applauding Kojima for his willingness
to explore darker themes in the game, O'Brien found the execution to be
distasteful and poorly-conceived, opining that the sexual violence inflicted on
Paz Ortega Andrade reduced her from being a complex and conflicted character to
a plot point, providing nothing more than the basis for Snake's motivation in The
Phantom Pain. O'Brien was also critical of the inclusion of a collectible
tape recording which suggests through audio that Chico, an underage boy, was
forced to have sex with Paz. He believes that the scene used rape as a weapon
against Paz and as a reward for Chico.
Sales
During the first week of release in Japan, the
PlayStation 3 version of the game sold 119,615 physical retail copies, ranking
third place amongst all Japanese software sales within that week, whilst the
PlayStation 4 version sold 91,903 physical retail copies. On 25 April
2014, Konami announced that the game shipped one million copies worldwide. The
PlayStation 4 version has sold three times more than the Xbox One version.
Spesifikasi
minimum :
Sistem
Operasi: Windows 7/8 (64 bit)
CPU:
Core i5-2300 2.8GHz/FX-6350
RAM:
4 GB
Hard
Disk: 4 GB
VGA:
GeForce GTX 650 1GB/Radeon HD 6790
Direct X: 11
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