This keeps the player always engaged with the environment instead of checking the corners every few seconds. And every aspect of its visual presentation has been slanted toward that level design There’s no more radar, or obstructive health bar. That the game is designed to allow for both is an impressive feat of level design, and one of its best features. You can also exercise a more subtle tact, and sneak and crawl and silently choke-hold enemies. The controls too have been smoothed out, so it’s easier than ever to go guns-a-blazing, highjack a tank, and revel in the irony of singing “The Stars and Stripes Forever” while extrajudicially mowing down soldiers. The entire game takes place on this one base, and the player is allowed to achieve this goal however she sees fit. The player controls Big Boss-for all intents and purposes Solid Snake Sr.-on a mission to extract his friends from an ersatz Guantanamo Bay. Ground Zeroes takes place in the densest tangles of Metal Gear‘s sprawling nonsensical mythology.
A single Metal Gear Solid game could, in fact, be half a dozen different games at the same time. Or using the tangle of vents and crevices to make myself completely hidden. The entire game could be played without touching a single person, and just using a cardboard box disguise and porn magazines to circumvent the guards. The game went from okay shooter to challenging live-action lateral thinking puzzle. After the urging of a developer friend I went back to the series and tried them in a higher difficulty setting. My first pass through the series I played them like clunky shooters with a light stealth element, mostly enjoying the big action setpieces. A single Metal Gear Solid game can be viewed through a very specific angle without consideration for the whole. Most of these cries seem to ignore that the value of a Metal Gear Solid game has always varied depending on who’s playing it. The other is that, having worked at a bank for years, I know that $35 means drastically different things to different people, and that that’s usually none of my goddamn business. The first reason is that in a year the game will be heavily discounted, so spending 1000 words on an issue that will be moot in a few months seems silly. Ground Zeroes has problems, and I will get into them, but price isn’t one I’ll address.
The game was split into two parts, a prelude released now and the rest released next year.
The biggest criticism being lobbed at Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes is that, given its length, it costs too much.
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