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Metal gear solid V is the epitome of stealth gaming. The game will challenge you to think outside and "inside the box" with its diverse play style to beautiful yet complex landscape. One can easily get lost in that world for hours.

I have to give this game 5 stars. I was looking for something initially to complain about this game. My first dislike was getting used to the controls after coming to this game for PS4 from playing Fallout 4 for the last 6 months. Fallout 4 was my last favorite game until now. My biggest problem with the controls was switching between weapons / items. There is a bit of a lag, at least on my system, switching between weapons and items, just as there could be in real life. Now that I've played over 50 hours (and only 16% completed btw), I'm much better with the controls than when I started, for sure. There is so much to see and do with this game. The graphics are really good. The gameplay is really good. There are quite a few cutscenes, but not so many as to be irritating like in Uncharted 4. I put U4 and FO4 away when I got this game, and I will almost certainly not play U4 again. FO4 will be difficult to never play again, but MGS5 is definitely my new favorite, and I imagine I'll be playing it for a long, long time. I must say this game has the best artificial intelligence I've personally seen so far from the enemies. Even if I head-shoot snipe a bad guy from 200m across the map--with a suppressed rifle--the remaining living enemies sometimes can make it clear across the map to the almost exact spot where I was sitting and search for me there. The special effects on this game are amazing. If you head-shoot a bad guy, his head explodes. If you shoot him in the chest, some of the impact is absorbed by his clothing and / or body armor. If you head-shoot someone, they go down immediately. If you don't head shoot them, sometimes it takes a couple shots to finish them off. One exception I've found so far is if a bad guy is wearing a helmet. Even with a perfect head shot, the bad guy gets his bell rung and the helmet goes flying off, but he doesn't die until you head-shoot him again. Learning to use the idroid while in the helicopter and at mother base takes a little getting used to, but I'm better at it now. I started out with the horse as my companion. The horse is definitely helpful traveling long distances. Now I've got D-Dog, and the best thing about him is he spots/marks a lot of enemies for me, quite a few that I would not have seen on my own. One other thing I don't like about the game weapons is not being able to carry 2 weapons (at least not yet) that I really like in the primary and secondary slots. Right now, I'm carrying the suppressed assault rifle and a suppressed sniper rifle in the primary slots, and I'm carrying my bionic arm and the tranquilizer pistol in the second slots. Should I really have to count my attached arm as a slot??? And that suppressed assault rifle in slot 1 is almost worthless, btw. I've only used it a couple times, and only when I had to. I'd much rather carry a sniper rifle and a rocket launcher in slot 1 and a tranquilizer pistol and a suppressed pistol in slot 2. If it is possible to do that, I haven't earned that or figured out how to do it yet. I like to sneak around and snipe bad guys with head shots if they are not worth Fultoning back to mother base. If they are worth keeping, I have to get in close and take them down manually or shoot them with the tranquilizer pistol so I can extract them. The Fulton device is a bit far-fetched as are some other parts of the game, but the Fulton device is definitely functional and entertaining, as far as the gameplay is concerned. I like being able to use and destroy cover when being engaged and engaging the enemy. There is a vast array of weapons available, altho I only like carrying and using a few specific weapons so far. I've also found that the improved versions of several weapons are only a slight improvement and they cost a lot of money to upgrade, so it's not generally worth it to me, early on, anyway. That being said, there are a couple items that are a drastic improvement as upgrades are produced, like smoke grenades and C4, for example. I'm going to keep playing this game, and I will update my review as necessary. I will find it very difficult to give this game anything other than a 5 star rating. I think I paid about $40 on Amazon, and the first couple hours of gameplay made it worth every penny. I have a feeling I'll be playing this game for a long, long time. Oh, and I love the "Pete Rose" flying head-first slide--I do it all the time--sometimes just for fun. :)

Absolutely fantastic game. Solid 1080p/60fps and it looks better than most other games that can barely manage 900p/30fps, such is the power of the Fox Engine (and years of optimization). Gameplay is fluid and fun, a huge improvement over the previous MGS games which (in my opinion) were janky and unintuitive. Story is your usual bat-shit crazy military fantasy we've come to expect from the MGS series.

Coming from a huge Metal Gear Solid fan, I actually wasn't initially planning to check this out. To me, the series ended at 4 and that was that. It was such a great ending and a great game and I just had a happy place in my imagination for the Metal Gear Solid series and many of its characters that I had been following since I was younger. I knew about the game while it was in production and I was just like yeah whatever another Metal Gear spin-off. I wasn't interested and didn't pay much attention but caught some details here and there, such as playing as Big Boss again and the setting. Ground Zeroes was really disappointing to me as well after I reluctantly checked it out, and that contributed more to my doubt for this game. Nevertheless, it came out and started to get great reviews (10's on IGN and Gamespot) and I was like alright lets see what this is about. Picked up the game, and after two weeks with it, I not only had over 200 hours of gameplay, but I had platinumed it. It wasn't because I was in any kind of rush either, I just couldn't stop playing the game. It is a lot different as far as the other Metal Gear games go, but it still totally works. It feels like a Metal Gear game. Technically awesome, great boss fights, beautiful locations and graphics, mature, deep thematics. There is an attention to detail here present only in Metal Gear Solid games. It asks a lot of you as a player too. You have to be smart and know the game and its system to be able to conquer it. Some really great Metal Gear moments, although the story does take a backseat to the gameplay for the first time really with a major game in the series. What is so great about this however is just how well it works. It goes to show how innovative and original the Metal Gear Solid team is. Another fantastic game

Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain the last Metal Gear game in the series by Hideo Kojima. Metal Gear Solid V is a truly next gen game, even though it's available for last gen consoles as well. I say this because on PS4 it runs natively on 1080p 60fps for an open world game and it is beautiful. Just like all the other Metal Gear games this one also deliveres complex plots, with unexpected twists and revelations altering your perception of people and events you thought you understood.Overall:- Open world game is beautiful with dense and exciting possibilities- Runs at 1080p and a solid 60 fps on PlayStation 4- Tells a complex, unusual story that holds your attention from start to finish- The world and characters are captivating in their presentation- Delivers best-in-class stealth gameplay- The Mother Base aspect is rewarding and engrossing, extending the scope of the game beyond the battlefield- A perfectly fitting piece to the twisted Metal Gear saga

This Is Easily My Favorite Game Of 2015 Next To Maybe PEs 2016 Also By KomaniA decent Year For Gaming Overall but What I will say is its a Action Game Not so much of a Stealth Game With started with Mgs 4 Though You Can Use stealth for me it didn't work as well in Mgs 4 my Favorite Game of the seventh generationMGs 5 is My Favorite For 2015 But that's just me some may differThis Is a great Game where you can bulid an army and easily a step in the right direction away from the call of duty and battlefield games though it is the most similar to those no matter what the critics say

I love games that take forever to beat and you can't just run thru shooting everyone to beat it. You have to be slow and methodical. The only issue that bugs me is it is Auto save only so you can lose progress depending on when you quit the game.

Best MGS when it comes to gameplay. Good control. Solid graphics. Cool music when you can hear it (go find it on Youtube). Story is cool but is presented poorly. There are various accounts of what is missing from the game online and it suffered from them being removed. Namely it having to be ported to older systems (ps3, xbox 360) this lead to a lot of stuff being cut and some poor stage designs. There was suppose to be a big Russia stage with armed guards and far less open but was cut because of the ports. The last chapter is missing because of pushed release. The game would've been legendary if Konami hadn't stepping over Kojima. Prob gonna be the last MGS that is over all solid so drink it in. Dont buy Konami they are doing some bonkers stuff with their titles.

As a long-time fan of the Metal Gear series, I think it's a good - if bittersweet - end for the Metal Gear franchise. The game is fun, but obviously incomplete. It's a shame that Konami turned its back on its core development teams (especially Hideo Kojima) and fans, but at least this game lived up to most of it's potential. I enjoyed most of the campaign, and the controls were very well done. The story, while a bit more spartan than other games, was fairly satisfying. The online aspects are lousy, and have been dominated by cheaters, but can be easily ignored. I'm satisfied with my purchase, though it's sad to think that it'll probably be the last Konami game I'll ever buy (unless there's a huge company-wide resurgence).

Fun to play, albeit repetitive at times (missions are variations of the same extract/eliminate goal). Has great stealth and shooting mechanics. There are tons of main and side missions (100+ hours) as well as weapons and base facilities that you can develop over time. My biggest gripe is that the open world is quite lifeless (despite being so large); there is not much to interact with besides enemy soldiers. Africa and Asia look the exact same (barren deserts).

Online game play is awesome and feels smooth this was just update in a patch (Oct 6) I played it for a couple hours but so far so good I would say it now makes up for 30% of the game content. I never write reviews but after they released the Online game mode I realized i had enjoyed the single player a lot and for the value I was ok just with just the single player mode as I have put in about 50 hours and still have not finished the whole game. The story line feels like when you are watching a movie and just when the movie is going to end it keeps getting better.I haven't purchased anything from the PS4 store or any coins and really since i'm almost done with the game they are kinda unnecessary but if you want to speed up the process of certain things it does help.The only cons that i could note would be:Grinding. Takes some time to gather the necessary items to develop new weapons/gear.Menu: I haven't gotten used to it. Its kinda complicated but once you know how to use it you can get a lot of use from it.

The map is huge but there are barely anything interesting. For example, no guard patrol the map around. Doing so making you wandering a wasteland with nothing but some small amount of harmless animal. Even hostile wolfs and wild dogs are only two of them in pair. When they were supposed to travel in pack not just two. You can easily kill those animals since their AI is not good. It's have a whole lot of empty gap that is why it doesn't feel fun for an open world.Another point is finding vehicle is also a painful. Since the world around is basically empty. Only place that is populate is guard post and enemy's village. Most of them doesn't have vehicle either. At least snake can run really fast.The camera is not good when I started to run it's cause me some headache. Due to it keep shaking constantly while running.Snake voice actor is feel almost identical to some character that sometime I don't even know is snake was actually the one that talking. Prefer the older voice. Still ok for me just confuse sometime and hard to listen.Other than that this is feel like an extreme improve from Peace Walker. Although the bosses battle in Peace Walker feel more interesting than this. What they need is improve the open world aspect, so it's feel fun to explore.

Most of the time it's a really fun game, but I do have some major gripes.1. It's too hard to be completely stealthy. I am getting better at this part so maybe it's just me but its pretty hard to do missions completely ghost mode. Which brings me to my next point.2. It's too easy once you do get busted. Seriously, snake is one hell of a bullet sponge and I think the slomo deal when you get busted is unnecessary.3. I encountered a incredibly frustrating glitch during a mission that I spent a lot of time on only to have to start over from the beginning due to not being able to hear the instructions over the noise of a sandstorm. Which brings me to my next point.4. Instructions and tutorials are VERY lacking. I can't tell you how many times I've had to Google how to do something properly or what something in the mother base menu meant. The game is terrible at explaining some things.I have to admit once I learned how to do things I am really enjoying the game, but it's maddeningly frustrating at times when it does something that seems like they should have fixed before calling this a finished product.

The beginning of the game was great - but then it devolved into your typical FPS, which I'm not a huge fan of.

Ehhh should just YouTube'd all the cut scenes and said I played it.

its great in the beggining but as soon as you begin the real part of the game its quality can clearly be seen going down hill

Spent a lot of time crawling around in a cardboard box. Pretty fun game but it didn't hold my attention very long.

If you are a MGS 1, 2, 3 fan don't buy this. It will break your heart. Stunning graphics and stellar game controls but the story just ain't the same. Goodbye Hideo you will be missed. Moving on.....

I love the gameplay, but recently I have been unable to play the game due to an internal glitch. I try to load the game and it takes me to a screen labeled "Online Information" discussing gameplay options, but I am unable to select the "Next" button on that screen. It does not load past that screen

This game is boring,the story doesn't make a lot of sense. After some hours of play I got bored and haven't touch the game again. Very disappointed with this purchase

I really did not like this game because it wasn't a real Metal Gear in my opinion. It lacked the boss fights that I have come to love and fear in each Metal Gear. Way too repetitive, extract this person or that person constantly. Story was boring and at the end of the game you had to replay missions on hard mode to unlock more of the story. Waste of time and money for me. I did not even finish it. Only played most of it because it has the name Metal Gear in it. I don't get how most game sites gave it a 10/10.

Game play is amazing but some of the story content is super boring/corny/cringe worthy

Mediocre game! Nothing like the other ones. Don't get this expecting a MGS game.

The gameplay at first was nice but then after the 1st Chapter it shows this game was not finished plus MGO is not great and feels bare bones with a lot of balance adjustments needed but i doubt they'll ever change

Terrible game. Odd lengthy cinematic sequences, confusing plot (which at least on the surface is so ridiculously stupid it discourages further analysis), and action is meh. The way enemies walk around in the same stupid patterns for the most part is so dumb it takes only patience to get around them. Did I mention the long cutscenes? The faux-stealth is unbelievable as well to the point of being nonsensical. I turned this crap off early in the game and to this day (many many months later) regret falling for the fan-boy hype.

First thing you should know is that this review is not based on any aspect of the quality of the game, and most gamers are going to love it. This review is for a certain type of gamer. I'm a gamer who loves the game to feel as cinematic as possible. Games like ACIV: Black Flag, GTA, Skyrim, etc. This review is for people like myself. Now, let me be clear, I love MGS. I have since the original Metal Gear Solid on Playstation. I wanted to love this game, and after an exciting opening sequence. It turned into a do a mission, go back to a menu. rinse, repeat. After every goal, BAM! takes you right out of the game. I didn't play very long before I realized that this is how the whole game would be, so I dropped the controller and never picked it back up. I don't even consider it a MGS game because again, while high quality, they changed the character control mechanics. It doesn't feel like MGS. The same thing happened with Battlefront. Wanted to like it, but every 5 minutes it takes me back to the menu.

PROSThere is no story, but there are lots of tiddy bits that compliment or explain some of the minor details of the franchise's main plot.Most missions can be easily beaten and excelled with your bare hands, once you get the hang of the game.Weapon customization yields some interesting results.CONS- Oddly enough, what little there is of the story, also only explains one tiny detail that nobody cared about.- The gameplay is responsive and easy to grasp, which sadly makes for very easy and boring experience when the enemy is both blind, brainless, and the problems presented by the missions are not themselves difficult in any significant way.- CQC is overpowered- Empty and lifeless world with not much going on. There is a war happening behind the scenes, supposedly. Same as the plot. Or the script for Beyond Two Souls.- Assassin's creed style sidequests (replay the same mission 154 times, on different sides of the map)- The main missions are about as varied as the sidequests- Motherbase management, better known as the CEO simulator. You don't really get to make anything, you just approve plans and give the go-ahead to start research and construction.- Weapon variation outside of customization is lacking. There is very little need for these many machine gun variants.Don't 100%, it's not worth it. There is nothing there.

Should've returned this product. Not worth it.

I have played and loved Metal Gear since MGS 1 on the playstation 1 and The Phantom Pain is a slap in the face.First off, this is not a metal gear game. There's almost no story, which is very disappointing as this has always been what the metal gear games were built upon. Next, this might as well been named Socom Navy seals, because that is what I feel like I am playing. Third person, behind the back generic military shooter.The open world kills it. Back in the day, metal gear games had you infiltrate a huge elaborate base. This got thrown out the window in Snake eater, but never to this level. Quality over quantity should be mentioned here. Afganistan, where you will spend most of your time, is a HUGE open area of NOTHING. Its a dessert, with blown out destroyed buildings scattered around, but literally there's nothing there. There's basically no interior locations, which is one thing that makes me hate open world games. Its so insanely boring and repetitive, especially since areas/bases are re-used over and over again for later missions. You sit back and are like "wait, didn't I just infiltrate this base a few missions ago?"The biggest issue which is what actually makes me hate this game is what you find out at the end. I will not spoil it, but its all a huge lie and slap in the face. A full metal gear title (perhaps the last one ever) dedicated to literally nothing of weight story wise. Like I said I won't spoil it, but when you do find out, you will be rolling your eyes. Without spoiling it, let's just say I would have actually enjoyed following the "other" character on their adventure.Now with all that being said, the game itself is good I guess, if you like socom navy seals. It definitely is a good time killer, but never was I like "oh my god, this is amazing". It was always like "meh, this is alright I guess". If Metal Gear wasn't stamped all over it, then I might have a far more favorable perspective, but it doesn't.For anyone expecting Metal Gear Solid, then proceed with caution with Phantom Pain.

Disappointing, a nonsense of a story, all the trailers were better than the actual plot, all dialog in trailers came from the cassettes, the missions are so repetitive, the gameplay and all the options the player has are the best in all the saga, but what for?, to wander around and empty desert?, to fulton everyone in every checkpoint?, to troll every boss(5 or less) in the game? and also the easiest in all mgs saga. Kojima promised us so much, so much with this game, but at last it was a totally let down, and its kojima's and konami's fault.And Kiefer Sutherland, oh boy, yes, he talked, he talked more than Chrono and Serge together!..