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| #2 Best PC game of the year 2015 |
This post contains major spoilers of the game.Intro :
The Best Game released this year. Here comes 'The Phantom Pain'. Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain is an open world action-adventure stealth video game developed by Kojima Productions, directed, designed, co-produced and co-written by Hideo Kojima, published by Konami for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One. It was released worldwide on September 1, 2015. The game is the eleventh canonical and final installment in the Metal Gear series and the fifth within the series' chronology. It serves as a sequel to Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes, and a continuation of the narrative established there,and a prequel to the original Metal Gear game.
Overview :
In The Phantom Pain, players take the role of Big Boss, under the nickname Punished "Venom" Snake, in an open world environment. The gameplay elements were largely unchanged from Ground Zeroes, meaning that players will have to sneak from several points in the game world, avoiding enemy guards, and remaining undetected. Included in Snake's repertoire are binoculars, maps, pistols, assault rifles and explosives. Following one of the series traditions, The Phantom Pain encourages players to progress through the game without killing, using non-lethal weapons such as tranquilizer darts to subdue enemies. Players may traverse the game world with vehicles such as cars and tanks, in addition to traveling on foot or on horseback, and as certain locations are mountainous, players can opt to scale a rock face as a short cut. They may also call for friendly helicopter support against enemy soldiers in a combat alert or send commandos to scout a target area. Snake can also call on AI companions—including Quiet, a silent female sniper with supernatural abilities; D-Horse, a horse with a customizable saddle for carrying more equipment in the field; D-Walker, a manned, highly agile mobile weapons platform that can provide heavy weapons support; and D-Dog, a wolf pup raised and trained on the new Mother Base to assist him in the field. The companions' abilities and their effectiveness will depend on the player's relationship with them.
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| Quiet - The Female Sniper |
As in Peace Walker, The Phantom Pain will offer a base-building feature that allows players to develop weapons and items from their home base. Recruitment of enemy soldiers and prisoners has also returned for this purpose, allowing the base to grow through organization. The player is given the option to access their base from their real-life smartphones and other devices via a companion app. Unlike in Peace Walker where players can only see Mother Base from the air, they can control Snake as he explores the complex on foot. The Fulton surface-to-air recovery system, an item introduced into gameplay in Peace Walker, returns as well, with players now able to transport captured soldiers and other objects such as animals and vehicles back to Mother Base. Money for upgrading Mother Base's defenses and technology can be collected from objects found all over the map, such as diamonds, shipping containers, and special blueprint boxes, as well as sending recruited soldiers on combat missions around the world. The income is invested on upgrades to the appearance and abilities, weapons and equipment of Snake, his AI companions, and vehicles. For example, Snake's prosthetic arm can be modified with a taser, echolocation function, or remote controls that allow it to fly as a drone.
The enemy AI has also improved in terms of situational awareness. If players frequently use particular weapons or tactics to subdue enemy soldiers, repeats of the mission will see the enemy increase in numbers and be outfitted with better equipment; for example, the frequent use of headshots will see enemy soldiers with metal helmets to make targeting the head harder.
Series director Hideo Kojima revealed that the game has a new day-and-night cycle that runs in real-time, and that the time taken to travel from one location to another will affect the time of day when the player arrives at their destination. The cycle also fasts-forwards when Snake lights a "Phantom Cigar", a type of electronic cigar; a digital silver Seikowatch panel appears on screen to denote time. The passage of time enables players to analyze the movement of marked enemy forces in the area, such as shifts in sentry patrols and individual patrol routes. Weather effects, such as sandstorms and rain, will also affect the gameplay environment by, for example, reducing visibility or masking the sound of footsteps.
A new game design direction will allow the player to choose in what order the story events take place by selecting missions in any order they like, and yet still "understand the encompassing message by the end". Konami confirmed that the playable world in The Phantom Pain is two hundred times larger than that of Ground Zeroes, featuring a variety of climate conditions and environments. This allows the players to freely roam the map while proceeding to either story missions or sidequests, as in other games with nonlinear gameplay. In addition, players who have previously played Ground Zeroes are able to import save data into The Phantom Pain and gain special perks.
Storyline :
Following the destruction of MSF (Militaires Sans Frontières) at the hands of Cipher, Big Boss falls into a coma. He awakens nine years later in 1984, where Cipher's assassin,Quiet tries to kill him. Big Boss is rescued by a mysterious man with a bandaged face calling himself Ishmael. While trying to escape the hospital the two become caught in the crossfire between Cipher's soldiers and the psychic Tretij Rebenok, "The Third Child", helped by his apparition, the Man on Fire. After a chase, Ishmael disappears, leaving Snake to continue his escape with Revolver Ocelot, now working with a new mercenary company called Diamond Dogs, founded by Kazuhira Miller as a replacement for MSF.
While searching for clues about Cipher and expanding Diamond Dogs on an offshore platform near the Seychelles, Big Boss and his growing mercenary company become involved in the Soviet–Afghan War and the Angolan Civil War. Along the way, Big Boss recruits Quiet, who no longer speaks and has gained seemingly paranormal abilities; Dr. "Huey" Emmerich, a former MSF scientist suspected of being partly responsible for MSF's destruction; Eli, a spiteful British child believed to be one of Big Boss's clones and leading a band of runaway child soldiers; and finally, Code Talker, a Navajo expert on parasites forced to work for Cipher. Meanwhile, Big Boss begins to encounter the Skulls, deadly enemy soldiers who have similar abilities as Quiet. The Diamond Dogs also suffer a mysterious epidemic, losing many soldiers before it is contained.
It is eventually revealed that XOF, a rogue faction of Cipher, was responsible for the attack on MSF in 1975 and that Major Zero has since lost control of the organization. Skull Face, the group's leader, sees Cipher's plan to unite the world for peace as the same as making it culturally American. To avoid this, he intends to release a parasite, in part developed by Code Talker, that kills anyone who speaks English. A modified version of this parasite is used to give Quiet and the Skulls their unusual abilities while a strain targeting a different language, used for testing purposes, was the cause of the earlier epidemic that affected Diamond Dogs. After releasing the English strain parasite, Skull Face finally plans to make nuclear weapons available to as many minority groups as he can. By way of nuclear deterrence he imagines no one will dare compromise anyone else, attaining world peace while still protecting the integrity of each culture. Skull Face hopes to ensure a nuclear war does not actually occur by secretly maintaining remote control of all the weapons.
To make nuclear weapons desirable again in the first place, Skull Face intends to use the new Metal Gear system known as the ST-84 "Sahelanthropus", hoping to start a new cold war. As it is unfinished, he depends on The Third Child's paranormal abilities, but during the test the psychic turns against him, having Metal Gear crush the Man on Fire and trapping Skull Face. Big Boss defeats the rampaging Metal Gear and wounds Skull Face by shooting off his arm and leg. Skull Face is then killed by Huey. Later, it is explained that The Third Child was not consciously working for Skull Face. Rather, being psychic, he had an increased sensitivity to other people's thoughts, and so would come to personify the most vengeful person around, wreaking havoc on their behalf; in controlling Sahelanthropus, The Third Child was channelling Eli's vengeance.
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| D - Dog |
In the aftermath, Eli, along with The Third Child and the child soldiers, steal the remains of Sahelanthropus and abandon Diamond Dogs. Soon after an epidemic of newly mutated parasites occurs forcing Big Boss to personally kill many of his own men to contain it. To honor them, Big Boss decides to make their cremated remains into diamonds to carry into battle. Huey is immediately accused of causing the epidemic while trying to mutate the parasites to sell as weapons. When evidence that he murdered Dr. Strangelovewhile arguing over using their son in experiments surfaces, and amidst lingering suspicions that he had previously betrayed MSF to Cipher, Big Boss exiles him from Diamond Dogs.
It is revealed that Skull Face infected Quiet with the English strain of parasite and sent her to join Big Boss so she could spread it among them as a last resort, until her time with them made her genuinely change sides. After being forced to speak English to save a poisoned Big Boss, she disappears to avoid causing another epidemic; walking alone in the desert, her fate is unknown.
Players later learn that the Big Boss shown for most of the game is actually "the Phantom", an MSF medic, and the real Big Boss was in fact the man with the bandaged face, Ishmael. The medic was given hypnosis by Ocelot and underwent plastic surgery to become a second Big Boss, serving as a decoy for his enemies while he wages a covert war against Cipher. During the credits it is stated that the Phantom goes on to set the events of the Outer Heaven uprising in motion, and dies at the hands of Solid Snake. The original Big Boss resurfaces during the Zanzibar Land disturbance.
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After the credits, Miller and Ocelot discuss Big Boss's plans to create Outer Heaven. While Ocelot remains supportive of Big Boss, Miller, disgusted at his former ally's deception, agrees to continue assisting the Phantom and Big Boss's sons only in hopes of contributing to the real Big Boss's downfall. The two nonetheless agree to work together until the inevitable conflict between Big Boss's sons begin.
Conclusion :
The phantom pain is a really good example of what should be done in a grand Finale. The Story of the game is rather little unsatisfying but graphics make a difference. It has won several game of the year awards and the ones which it hasn't won are won by #3 of our list The Witcher 3 : Wild Hunt. Phantom Pain is a must play for all the action-adventure fans out there.
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain Minimum Requirements
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain Recommended Requirements
Our rating - 95.5/100
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