

Snake can use a wide repertoire of weapons and items and several AI companions that allows the player to combat enemies either stealthily or directly. The game is played from a third-person perspective in an open world which can be explored either on foot or by modes of transport. Set in 1984, nine years after the events of Ground Zeroes, the story follows mercenary leader Punished "Venom" Snake as he ventures into Soviet-occupied Afghanistan and the Angola– Zaire border region to exact revenge on those who destroyed his forces and came close to killing him during the climax of Ground Zeroes. Directed, written, and designed by Hideo Kojima (as his final work at Konami), it is the ninth installment in the Metal Gear franchise, following Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes, a stand-alone prologue released the previous year. VG247's Shabana Arif assures us that The Phantom Pain "is unmistakably an Hideo Kojima game, regardless of what the box art omits".Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain is a 2015 stealth game developed by Kojima Productions and published by Konami. It's worth noting, still, that The Phantom Pain is being celebrated unamimously in reviews. TcFskpSZ8Oīetween this, the erasure of Kojima's name from the cover and the whole Silent Hills fiasco, a lot of people are expressing frustration with Konami. In fact, all that's on there is a Steam installer, with the expectation being that anyone who purchases the disc will still be willing to download the full game.Ĭontents on disc for the physical retail PC version of #MGSVTPP:Īnd. That's all well and good, but what about players who rely on physical media? One user who has gotten an early copy of the PC disc release of The Phantom Pain is reporting that the game itself isn't actually on the disc. To see this content please enable targeting cookies. 12:00 AM EST/9:00 pm PST Get It Now! /ZBSaN1v1wD

Over the weekend, Konami announced that The Phantom Pain would be available to install on Steam from 12.00am EST, September 1. The Phantom Pain will be available to launch and load on Steam soon - which you'll need to do even if you buy a disc copy.
