TwolittleGamers Plays... Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

So Metal Gear Solid V is finally here and it goes without saying that it is a pretty special game. It seems fitting that Hideo Kojima's final Metal Gear game is the greatest realisation of the tag "Tactical Espionage Operations". MGS V is hands down the greatest stealth game ever made, it may even be one of the greatest games ever made.

There was concern from the die-hard fans of the Metal Gear series that Kojima's choice to take the series Open-World was a big mistake. In fact it turns out it was the best decision for the Metal Gear franchise. MGS V gives players several huge open-world enviroments to play in and by play, I literally mean it. The freedom given to you to perform missions is entirely down to the player. With hardly any hand holding or large map pointers, objective lists. The Phantom Pain treats you like the character you are meant to be, a legendary soldier. You are given an ultimate objective to achieve and dropped into the world with the weapons you have selected and thats it. How you achieve is them up to you.

What is The Phantom Pain?

Konami stole the show at the VGA's by showing off a trailer for a new game called, The Phantom Pain. The game is being developed by new studio, Moby Dick Studios, a swedish development studio, headed up by Joakim Mogren as studio head.

The trailer opens with a man waking in a hospital to find he has lost his left arm and has been fitted with a prosthetic hook. He does not have the use of the rest of his body. Then a man with a bandaged face picks him up and leads him through the hospital corridors, just as a group of heavily armed soldiers storm the hospital and start murdering all the patients. Are they after the one armed man? What do they want with him?

Check out the trailer below.



Since seeing this trailer the internet has been buzzing with rumours and speculation about this game. There is evidence that suggests that this game is in fact Metal Gear Solid 5. Here is a few of the best spots so far...

• Joakim Mogren - Joakim is actually an anagram of Kojima and Mogren is a football club in Montenegro. Montenegro features in the opening of Metal Gear Rising: Revengence.
• The man with one arm looks very familiar... Snake?

• How about the Logo for the game could that writing behind the logo?

Well, I guess only time will tell. In the meantime, the trailer was stunning and lets hope we can get to play it sooner rather than later.