By Sam Coles:
Probably one of worst blunders of the 8th
generation so far was 2014 with buggy and unfinished games and probably one of
the biggest rip offs and waste of times I’ve played and that comes in the form
of Metal Gear Solid V Ground Zeroes a glorified paid demo. I don’t know why
Konami thought it was acceptable to chop the first level out of the Phantom
Pain and sell for full price (in the UK) and people defended it and that also
was perplexing to me.
Metal Gear Solid V Ground Zeroes takes place in 1975 one
year after the events of Peace Walker, the supposedly dead Paz is found by a
Brazilian fisherman and she is then taken to Camp Omega which is just Guantanamo
Bay. Snake and Kaz want to rescue her not because they like her but she has
important information about Zero’s secret organisation. The tone of this demo
is very different compared to The Phantom Pain as it is very dark with subject matters
from implied rape to keeping prisoners against their will and I think this was
Kojima’s original vision.
Gameplay is exactly the same as The Phantom Pain obviously
with a few exceptions such as the silencer on your tranquilizer gun does not
wear over time which completely trivialises the situation. Snake controls fluidly
as has my favourite move in the game where you can make him fling himself to
the floor which looks like it should break his ribs every time he does it. The
demo takes place on Camp Omega a pretty big and sprawling map however changing
the time of day and weather is only going get you so far before it gets a bit
samey. You can finish the main story part in 30 minutes, there are side
missions but these aren’t very interesting and probably pad out the limited
gameplay for another hour or so.
One thing you cannot have a go at about the demo are the
visuals they are a just a sight to behold it runs on the FOX Engine and it’s
absolutely beautiful with the added plus it runs at 60 frames per second on PS4
and Xbox One anyway. There is some truly excellent lighting coupled with
realistic water textures as it bounces off Boss’s shoulders and runs down his
face.
Metal Gear Solid V Ground Zeroes is everything wrong with
the industry where publishers exploit the consumer’s excitement by squeezing
every penny out of them. I don’t understand why they released this back in the
day and also don’t understand why people defended it when it was a demo that
you paid for. Don’t bother with this as it is a complete waste of time, if you’re
really curious about it and haven’t played the Phantom Pain then get the
definitive experience of MGS V as it is bundled with it.
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