News: Konami has revealed when you can expect to play the next installment in the Metal Gear Solid franchise along with a new collector’s edition.
Konami has revealed that gamers will be able to get their hands on Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain beginning on September 1, 2015. Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain is the series’ largest and most ambitious edition to date, expanding upon themes and content seen in the Metal Gear Solid V Experience prologue: Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes. Set within huge open-world environments, Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain is brought to vivid life with realistic weather patterns and day/night cycles. Thus, players can adapt their tactics to match the changing environment, creating an intuitive and non-linear gameplay experience. Similarly, a host of acclaimed Metal Gear Solid troops return in hugely advanced forms, including expanded CQC (Close-Quarter Combat) skills, vastly improved enemy AI, online elements that complement the single player campaign, and an all-new version of Metal Gear Online, a competitive multiplayer mode, included within the main game.
Tactical elements are also added to the game via Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain’s new Mother Base system. Players begin with a small-scale off-shore rig, which can be customized and expanded using liberated items and personnel. Players use an enhanced version of the innovative Fulton system pioneered in Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker to airlift guards, vehicles, weapons, raw materials and kit to their base, where the staff will use these resources to develop the base to the user’s specifications. An accompanying iDROID app will allow players to manage their Mother Base and its development, using staff to develop new weapons, carry out missions and implement defense systems. The latter becomes vital as the Mother Base is central to the multiplayer online elements of the game’s campaign, where players can raid other players’ Mother Bases to wreak havoc and steal essential items.
Additionally, Metal Gear Online - the game’s dedicated competitive multiplayer mode - will go live at the launch of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. The online element represents the third iteration of the popular multiplayer game, newly redesigned with the familiar gameplay and aesthetic styling of its companion single-player campaign. Metal Gear Online features a “class system” that more uniquely defines the strengths and abilities of player characters on the battlefield. Key characters from the series including Venom Snake and Ocelot will also make appearances in the anticipated multiplayer feature.
When Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain is released there will be two different versions that you can buy. There will be the Day One edition as well as a collector’s edition. Each one comes with the following:
Day One Content - Physical Version
A map (presumably a physical map)
DLC item - Adam-Ska Special Handgun
DLC item - Personal Ballistic Shield (Silver)
DLC item - Cardboard Box (WetLand)
DLC item - Fatigues (Blue Urban Snake Costume)
Metal Gear Online XP Boost
The contents of the digital version will be announced later. The Steam version will include the above DLC content at launch.
Collector’s Edition Content - Physical Version Only
Half Scale Replica of Snake’s Bionic Arm
Collectible Steelbook
Behind the Scenes Documentary & Trailers Blu-ray Disc
Map
Exclusive Packaging
DLC Items
Weapon and Shield Pack
Windurger S333 Combat Special Revolver
Adam-ska Special Handgun
Maschinen Taktische Pistole 5 Weiss Special Handgun
Rasp Short-Barreled Shotgun Gold
Personal Ballistic Shield (Olive Drab)
Personal Ballistic Shield (Silver)
Personal Ballistic Shield (White)
Personal Ballistic Shield (Gold)
Cardboard Boxes
Cardboard Box (Rocky Terrain)
Cardboard Box (All-Purpose Dryland)
Cardboard Box (Wetland)
Snake Costumes
Fatigues (Black Ocelot)
Fatigues (Gray Urban)
Fatigues (Blue Urban)
Fatigues (All-Purpose Dryland)
Other
”Venom Snake” Emblem
MGO Boost
Metal Gear Online XP Boost
MGO Items
Metal Gear Rex Helmet
AM MRS-4 Gold Assault Rifle
WU S. Pistol Gold
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain including Metal Gear Online, will retail for $59.99 for the PS4; the Xbox One and Steam, and $49.99 for the PS3 and Xbox 360. “Collector’s Edition” will be $99.99 for the PS4 and the Xbox One. The Steam version of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain will be released on September 15, 2015.
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