Game company Konami just provided an extensive 40-minute gameplay footage of its upcoming action-adventure stealth video game "Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain." The trailer shows off the game's sprawling milieu where most of the action takes place.
The rambling areas makes it difficult to remain undetected by enemies who seem to pop up from everywhere. Based on the gameplay clip alone, some are convinced that the title is a complete departure from the franchise and, at the same time, plays like "Ground Zeroes."
Game creator and designer Hideo Kojima, who worked alongside Konami for "The Phantom Pain," advises fans not to make judgments based on the initial teasers, but they should rather wait for and play the real thing, which is laden with a new style of stealth and combat, and dynamic weather in a full day-night cycle.
One thing that the game features is micro-transactions. Konami, however, explained and made it clear how this will play out and affect the game, which was "carefully balanced to be fair and enjoyable with or without using these options."
"There's no pay to win option. Rest assured that every single item, weapon and mission in the game is available to all players without paying a single cent," the game publisher clarified, as quoted by Gamingbolt.
"However, due to the sheer scale of the game and the time required to explore it all, micro-transactions were added as a completely optional feature for players who might not be able to spend as much time with the game, nothing more, nothing less," it said.
Going back to Kojima, this will be the last time he will work on the well-loved franchise, making the open-world game the last in its lineup, unless Konami decides to give it another go. But for the time being, the game serves as the series' denouement.
"Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain" will be available for the PS4, Xbox One, PS3 and Xbox 360 on Sept. 1.
