Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain is now available for digital pre-order and pre-load on Xbox One. The title costs $59.99 and is a 26.76 GB download. Pre-ordering the game grants you many perks like an experience boost and special gear. Konami Digital Entertainment continues the Metal Gear Solid V experience with this latest chapter. Ushering in a new era for the franchise with cutting-edge technology powered by the Fox Engine, Metal Gear Solid V will provide players a first-rate gaming experience as they are offered tactical freedom to carry out open-world missions. Nine years after the events of Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes and the fall of Mother Base, Snake awakens from a nine year long coma. The year is 1984. The Cold War serves as the backdrop as nuclear weapons continue to shape a global crisis. Driven by revenge, Snake establishes a new private army and returns to the battlefield in pursuit of the shadow group responsible for the events of Ground Zeroes.
The Metal Gear Solid team continues to ambitiously explore mature themes such as the psychology of warfare and the atrocities that result from those that engage in its vicious cycle. Metal Gear Solid V is one of the most anticipated games of the year with its open-world design, photorealistic visual fidelity and feature-rich game design will leave its mark as one of the hallmarks in the gaming industry for its cinematic storytelling, heavy themes, and immersive tactical gameplay.
Key Features:
• Open-world game design allowing players ultimate freedom on how to approach missions and overall game progression.
• Fox Engine delivers photorealistic graphics, thoughtful game design and true new-generation game production quality.
• Online connectivity that carries the experience beyond the consoles to other devices to augment the overall functionality and access to the game.
Asher is a games journalist, former News Writer (Gaming) at Windows Central. They contributed 1110 articles to ICXM between 2015–2017, focused on opinion pieces, game reviews, Windows and PC, and Xbox news: wrote over 1,100 ICXM pieces on Xbox news, hardware reviews, and platform commentary before joining Future plc’s Windows Central in 2017.