Check Out 12 Minutes of Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes in Action

It's looking great! And i love how strong winds sounds.

It does look a little easy but i give it the benefit of the doubt and assume it's one of the earliest mission. After he has the tape it's way too much action and Snake can eat too many bullets.

I love everything I see in this. 100% sold.

Totally scripted showing off the game-play elements. Will be curious to see how it actually plays out.

I still don't want it. I'm glad the alert slow mo can be turned off. Hopefully the lens effects can too.

No, definitely not. It didn't occur to me that there isn't a health bar.

Umm.. This is almost as bad as the MGS3 re-release video they showed. It showed a bunch of features I'm pretty sure you could do in MGS4. Nothing special really. I'm sure there's more in store, I'm just not sure who this video is aimed at.

There were definitely CIA agents you could shoot and kill in Peace Walker.

So happy this is multiplatform!

Yeah, the example mission in this trailer seemed like a generic "find the intel, then escape" mission that was kinda devoid of any unique or interesting elements (by which I mean it seemed like a Splinter Cell game OH SNAP).

Also, is this the first time Snake has infiltrated a U.S. base and shot U.S. soldiers? I guess the Genome Soldiers in MGS1 were technically the U.S. soldiers at that base being mindcontrolled by Psycho Mantis or something, but that's the only other time I can think of. Granted, I'm not very familiar with the portable MGS games.

The informant guy says the soldiers "don't work for Langley", but I wasn't clear on whether that meant they're U.S. soldiers who are being misinformed on where their orders are really coming from, or if the whole U.S. base is a ruse and it's actually a base for some other faction (XOF?) posing as the U.S. military.

This is maybe a bit of a stretch, but I don't think that these side ops are canon to the story, exist solely to give people more to do, and thus don't have to make perfect sense. Maybe? I dunno.

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Yeah, that part was weird. Does the informant record these audio tapes, then usually play hard to get? At a certain point I swear the informant basically said "Ah well, you're a busy guy, just choke me out and find the tape yourself".

Like, what?

@hef: I think you were looking for Bill Rizer, I just need to finish Peace Walker.

wellll, I wasn't excited about 'next gen' until....NOW.

@csl316: Why did you bold xbox 360?

The story is, mildly described, convoluted. But I think of it the same way I think of the Yakuza series. They are our soap opera video games. Always new characters, twists, drama and (unconfirmed/confirmed) canon breaking events... and we love it! There are of course more soap points that they hit, but it's to much to go into here and now. I might do a blog on it when I have time. My bachelors in film- and television science has to be good for something!

I'm not sure which Splinter Cell you're talking about. Those games were extremely linear, down to presenting single-room scenarios. Maybe Double Agent was different? I didn't play that one.

I don't know how I feel about the rebounding health in this. I realize people complain about how much running away you need to do in MGS typically, but without the stakes of limited supplies you can do what he did here: hide and pick off enemies until you clear a path.

I think I'd have appreciated better options to run away (since now the maps are open enough that you can just run for it) but equally punishing combat. Of course we won't know until we play it, but yeah, from this demo that's what it looks like.

I'm also a bit surprised that this seems to be taking a lot of cues from Peace Walker, rather than MGS 3 or 4. That's not good or bad, but I wasn't really anticipating it. I don't like the PSP games as much as some of the press does. They are the only MGSs I never played to completion.

Fucking hell I forgot that. I love this series, I really do, but that ending MGS4 ranks amongst the worst endings to a series every. It was nearly an hour of telling me what happened, not showing... ugh.

This looks fantastic. It looks like they did a ton of work on the controls. I think there is something to be desired with the visuals, but it still looks nice. Can't wait

Really liking this move towards less of a linear gameplay structure and more towards a pre-Splinter Cell: Conviction type stealth environment. I haven't played anything MGS-related since Portable Ops, so I'm hungry for a bit more of Kojima's crazy story, though I'm not sure if I'm crazy enough to buy a PS4 solely for Ground Zeroes.

This looks really good. Lets hope it is.

As long as I can still smoke cigarettes, I'll be able to get past any changes I don't like.

What's with these textures? A lot of them look really really bad!

The increased visual fidelity just serves to highlight how ridiculous some situations are, despite their best efforts at realistic stealth. For example, he sneaks around a bunch, locates his target, then proceeds to jump out and begin interrogating him out in the open, in plain sight. At least walk him into the shadows before you start asking him questions.

Also, I'd like to hope that the reason Snake took so many shots is that they had god-mode (or reduced damage) enabled for demo purposes.

Obviously the reason to not shoot your way out of every scenario is to prevent a level boss from sending the ghosts of the men you've killed to guilt-trip you while you endlessly walk forward in a ravine.

Looks neat but I miss the trial and error stealth games of old. I understand those games were less appealing to a mass audience but what is the point of sneaking around if you can just shoot your way out of every scenario?

The animation in this footage looks crazy-fast, like it's been sped up 2x in video-editing software. Maybe i'm just used to how framey MGSIV was, maybe not.

only thing I ever liked in MGS was Boss fights lets hope this one has some cool ones.

this looks like it'd play amazing on the pc with a mouse and keyboard :)

C.Q.C.

Not that impressed, to be honest. Not sure MGS gameplay and open world mesh all that well. Looks a bit like the most frustrating features of both.

Nice mullet Snake

Looks rad, though this part annoyed me.

"I don't have anything on me to take out this armored vehicle"

"Let me just place this C4 right here"

So you do in fact have something on you...

So, is this not going to be a mission that's in the final game than, or at least in a different fashion? The part at 1:04 just makes it seem like the game takes place in 2013, since it pops up in such a way, while also describing the place they're at. So, that won't be there in the final version. I wish it wasn't in this one, because it seems misleading. To me, it makes sense now, but it didn't initially. I guess it's because I was looking for clues, when that's not what this is really about.

I like how the blood on the lens is realistically rendered instead of the usual jam we see in most games.

It was rehersed, scripted not so much. watch the japanese playthrough of the demo, it is actually a different run (without the narration) they do more or less the same rehersed events but things go slightly differently.

and i dont know if you were aware, but regenerating health in metal gear isnt new, rations were just the quick optional way. But anyways, I wouldnt take it too much to heart, I would observe it more from a technical standpoint ie new features involved and technologies (use of blur, effects lighting and new stealth and combat mechanics) finalized UI's dont normally show up till right before it hits the shelf anyways.

Yeah probably well rehearsed scene. Anyway, the undercover agent guy is actually modelled from one of the Kojima Productions staffs, from the japanese TGS live stream Kojima said that he purposely placed his co-worker as a soldier just for TGS.

Man, this looks like a PS3 game with over-used motion blur and depth of field. Was really hoping this game would look better, but I wonder if it has to do with the fact that it's being released for current-gen systems.

I don't know how tightly scripted this demo mission was but it sure looked rehearsed.

"Oh no, the helicopter was shot down! How surprising and not at all expected! Let me just run out here at the right moment to witness it crashing so I can do a really cool dive under it!"

No on-screen radar and no health indicator - are they going with regenerating health now? The damage effect on the screen seemed to disappear when Snake did a CQC takedown, perhaps indicating that's a way of restoring health? There wasn't any alarm counter either.

I'll give them an out on the whole "guards must be blind" thing because that particular guy was an undercover agent, it might not actually be possible to alert him.

THAT's the unrealistic part of the Metal Gear series...

Seriously, looks great, but the writing in these games has gone beyond terrible-funny into the realm of just terrible.

Sweet Lord! this is gonna be epic.

I'm not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing, but this looks like a Hollywood action movie.

Looks rad! Like a mix between MGS4, Crysis and GTA 5.