All Articles: Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

Watch Snake ride a horse in Metal Gear Solid V’s E3 2013 gameplay trailer

Leave it to Hideo Kojima to make the Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain saga even more complicated. During Microsoft’s E3 2013 Press Conference, the consolemaker confirmed that, in addition to the PS3 and Xbox 360, Snake’s next adventure would be available on the Xbox One. Later on, Konami announced that Metal Gear Solid V would also be released for the PS4.

The gameplay video (which can be viewed above) showed Snake riding a horse and meeting with new characters and old friends. A nine-minute “Director’s Cut” of the video was also released, which you can find after the break.

So Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain is coming to the PS3, Xbox 360, PS4, and Xbox One at some undetermined future date (though probably next year). And we still don’t know how Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes fits in. (more…)

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MS @ E3 13: Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain confirmed for Xbox One

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Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain won’t just be coming to the PS3 and Xbox 360, it’ll also be available for the Xbox One. Announced during today’s Microsoft Press Conference, The Phantom Pain will take Snake to Afghanistan (and on a horse) as he deals with new characters such as Kazuhira Miller, Eli, Skull Face and Quiet, as well as returning characters including Emmerich, Ocelot, and Code Talker.

Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain currently has no release date.

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Kiefer Sutherland is the voice of Snake in Metal Gear Solid V

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Ever since we heard his voice in the GDC 2013 trailer, we’ve known that Kiefer Sutherland was connected to Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain in some way. Today, Konami and Hideo Kojima have confirmed that he will be voicing Snake in the upcoming open-world game.

In addition to lending his voice to the character, Sutherland will also perform the motion capture for Snake. Appearing on Konami’s Pre-E3 2013 Show, Kojima revealed that he is very excited about Sutherland’s motion capture performance and plans to develop the script around his acting, making the dialogue more succinct and hoping Snake’s facial expressions can convey the rest.

David Hayter, who previously Snake in every previous Metal Gear Solid game, won’t be involved with Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. According to Kojima, he wanted a new voice actor for Snake that would more closely match the character’s age in the game (which is 49). Apparently Hayter, who is 44, was just a bit too young for the part (Sutherland, by the way, is 46).

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Konami’s 2013 Pre-E3 Show includes MGS5: The Phantom Pain, Castlevania: LoS2, more

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Konami has announced they plan to host their third annual “Pre-E3 Show” this June. The “Pre-E3 Show” will be held on June 6 at 1:00 PM (Eastern Time), a week before the E3 Expo, and fans will be able to livestream the presentation through GameSpot.com, the GameSpot Xbox Live app, or Konami.com.

Konami plans to bring out the big guns for their 2013 “Pre-E3 Show” including “behind-the-scenes footage” of Pro Evolution Soccer 2014, the “inside scoop” on Hideo Kojima’s Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, and a new gameplay trailer for Mercury Steam’s Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2. And as always, a few “major” surprises are on the agenda for Konami’s “Pre-E3 Show.”

I’m hoping for a Contra reboot, but it’s a longshot, I admit.

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