Been some time since we heard from Metal Gear Survive, Konami’s co-op targeted Metal Gear V spinoff. It was initially slated for a 2017 launch, Konami fell silent whereas estranged collection director Hideo Kojima began his personal unbiased studio, which I’m nonetheless half-convinced is simply an excuse to hang around with Norman Reedus and Mads Mikkelsen
Admit it, you’d do it too.
While maybe somewhat late to money in on the Zombie Survival Sandbox zeitgeist, Metal Gear Survive is alive and kicking, or no less than slowly shambling nearer. Today, Konami introduced a launch date for the sport (February 20th – 22nd in Europe), together with a handful of perks for these daring sufficient to preorder. After the bounce: particulars, and 15 minutes of (subtitled) Japanese gameplay footage.
Make positive you hit the Closed Caption button on this one, until you communicate fluent Japanese.
Set in a corny What If situation branching off from Metal Gear Solid 5, Survive sees a bunch of Big Boss’ troopers sucked by a dimensional rift to a parallel world of crystalline zombie-things. While the core of the sport appears largely unchanged from The Phantom Pain’s sandbox, there are a couple of extra methods, comparable to a locational injury/therapeutic system as in MGS three, and fundamental real-time development options to defend your camp from the NotZombies.
I have to admit that I fairly wish to do that – Metal Gear Solid V was a fantastic sport and this appears to be a glorified co-op mod for it, recycling and re purposing a lot of the belongings from each the offline and aggressive multiplayer sides. It could not have Kojima’s free-wheeling sense of enjoyable, however the truth that Survive is constructed on high of such a stable sport offers it a very good basis.
One factor I can’t actually get behind is their option to blanket the world in thick fog. An everyday supply of pleasure in The Phantom Pain was find a excessive vantage level and planning a complete operation from there. Then once more, some screenshots on the official site do present clearer environments, with view distances nearer to what Phantom Pain followers are accustomed to.
As talked about, there are a few perks for preordering, however from the seems to be of it, they’re minor beauty objects; shiny golden weapons skins, a pair of emotes and a handful of character customisation choices, comparable to kabuki face-paint and a small cardboard field to put on over your head whilst you conceal in different, bigger cardboard containers.
Metal Gear Survive is coming to consoles and PC on February 20th. 22nd for Europe. Let’s hope Konami aren’t daft sufficient to attempt to implement the area lockout on Steam. No costs have been introduced.
