metal gear solid v the phantom pain cassette tapes

It’s those thefts that bring the game’s most charming asset, your fulton balloon retrieval device, into the fore.Īs the game progresses it opens out into a second, even better field of play, a war torn African borderland. As such, it’s up to you to pick from a broad list of essential missions and resource-boosting side ops, and deploy across the gorgeously-rendered valleys of Afghanistan to assassinate generals, hunt tanks, rescue wildlife, and complete a cornucopia of other objectives, almost all wrapped around annihilating a target, or stealing something or someone of importance to your sprawling oil rig fortress, Mother Base. From inflatable decoy soldiers to pitched sniper battles, there are dozens of sides to The Phantom Pain’s action. You’re on a quest for revenge. With a buddy at your side, you’re free to use stealth, cunning or violence in any combination you fancy. It’s just a pity that outside of the context of its sprawling franchise, The Phantom Pain’s story is one of the least interesting director Hideo Kojima has ever conceived.Īnd that’s a real shame, because the gameplay here is the best we’ve ever seen in a Metal Gear Solid title. Add to that a healthy dash of eccentric Metal Gear charm, and you’re onto a winner. It merges stealth seamlessly with high-octane firefights, and turns a set of simple objectives fight, destroy, retrieve, into a massively replayable, ever-evolving core gameplay loop. Despite a serious shortage of likeable characters, a few disappointingly shallow mechanics and the mother of all pacing issues in its storytelling, Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain remains above all a supremely addictive game. This is the most engaging open world title ever made.

Metal gear solid v the phantom pain cassette tapes