Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

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2015
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Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (2015)

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After awakening from a nine year coma, Big Boss forms a new mercenary group called, Diamond Dogs, and teams up with his former rival, Ocelot, to track down the men responsible for the destru... Read allAfter awakening from a nine year coma, Big Boss forms a new mercenary group called, Diamond Dogs, and teams up with his former rival, Ocelot, to track down the men responsible for the destruction of MSF.After awakening from a nine year coma, Big Boss forms a new mercenary group called, Diamond Dogs, and teams up with his former rival, Ocelot, to track down the men responsible for the destruction of MSF.

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Nominated for 4 BAFTA Awards
- 7 wins & 17 nominations total

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Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain: E3 2015: Us Trailer

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Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

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Kiefer Sutherland

Venom Snake
(voice)
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Robin Atkin Downes

Kazuhira Miller
(voice)

Troy Baker

Ocelot
(voice)

Stefanie Joosten

Quiet
(voice)

Christopher Randolph

Huey Emmerich
(voice)

Piers Stubbs

Eli
(voice)

Jay Tavare

Code Talker
(voice)

James Horan

Skull Face
(voice)

Dave Fouquette

Man on Fire
(voice)

Tara Strong

Paz Ortega Andrade
(voice)

Philip Anthony-Rodriguez

Soldiers
(voice)
(as Philip Anthony Rodrigues)
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Crispin Freeman

Soldiers
(voice)
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Joel Johnstone

Soldiers
(voice)
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Matthew Mercer

Soldiers
(voice)
(as Matt Mercer)
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Roger Rose

Soldiers
(voice)
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Dave Hill

Soldiers
(voice)
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Konstantin Lavysh

Soviet Officer
(voice)
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Dmitri Kornakov

Russian Soldiers
(voice)

Storyline

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Trivia
In the first few minutes of the game, Snake's vision slowly un-blurs as a nurse enters the room to check on him. The player will briefly see her trimming some flowers. These flowers are the "Star of Bethlehem" lilies that appeared during the final boss battle of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, in which Naked Snake eliminated The Boss in a field of said lilies.

Goofs
At a certain place in the game, "qarya Sakhra Ee", there is a tape playing Europe's "The Final Countdown". As the game is supposed to be set in 1984, this would be incorrect as the track was not released until 1986.

Quotes
Kazuhira Miller: Why are we still here? Just to suffer? Every night, I can feel my leg... And my arm... even my fingers... The body I've lost... the comrades I've lost... won't stop hurting... It's like they're all still there. You feel it, too, don't you? I'm gonna make them give back our past!

Crazy credits
After completing the Truth ending, a time line appears and shows all the events that happened in the Metal Gear Universe from 1942-2014. It also reveals that, in 1995, the Outer Heaven uprising occurs, but is stopped by Solid Snake, who kills Big Boss's phantom; Punished 'Venom' Snake. The time line ends with 'Big Boss dies'.

Connections
Edited into Metal Gear Solid V: The Definitive Experience (2016)

Soundtracks
The Man Who Sold The World
Written by David Bowie
Published by Tintoretto Music (BMI) administered by RZO Musoc, Inc.,
EMI Blackwood Music Inc. (BMI) o/b/o EMI Music Publishing LTD, and
Chrysalis Music (UK) LTD, c/o BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT (US) LLC
Performed by Midge Ure
Courtesy of Warner Music UK
By arrangement with Warner Music Group Video Game Licensing
(P) 1985 Chrysalis Records Ltd

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Featured review

10/10

Hideo Kojima is gaming's Stanley Kubrick.

Metal Gear Solid: The Phantom Pain is the penultimate journey in Hideo Kojima's classic saga; even though it's a prequel there is a good deal of surprises to be found in the story. The gameplay is nothing short of phenomenal and there's so much attention to detail graphically and narratively speaking.

The Phantom Pain is a gaming experience to be remembered for generations to come. Its immersion for the players is unsurpassed, its atmosphere phenomenal, its story a bit sparse yet massive in scope and ambition. Hideo Kojima has made the 2001: A Space Odyssey of video games right here. There's endless subtexts throughout, visually and script-based, and that's excluding the ridiculously tense and terrifying start of the game, where you're at a hospital in Cyprus, trying to escape certain death.

If you haven't played the game yet, please do so, and play the 'Day One Edition' on the PS4: the definitive version of this modern masterpiece.