Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain is the sequel to Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes and a prequel to the original Metal Gear. The game has a complex story with long cut-scene sequences, but there are fewer…
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain is an adventure developed by Kojima Productions, released 1 September 2015 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. It currently starts at $15.89 at Fanatical. The main story takes about 101 hrs to finish.
What Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain is
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain is an adventure game developed by Kojima Productions and released in 2015. It was published by Konami. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Fox Engine. It carries an ESRB M age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan has brought a new edge to the Cold War, and in 1984, a one-eyed man with a prosthetic arm appears in the country. Those who know him call him Snake; the legendary mercenary who was once swept from the stage of history and left in a coma by American private intelligence network Cipher. Snake is accompanied by Ocelot, an old friend who saved him from attack when he finally awoke. Now, Snake’s former partner Kazuhira Miller is being held by the Soviet forces in Afghanistan. Snake must undertake a solo mission to rescue Miller and prove to the world that the legendary mercenary is not dead and gone. That first step will lead to a path of vengeance against the…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy, historical and open world. It supports multiplayer for up to 16 players online. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player. There are 42 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Metal Gear series
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain is the 55th of 70 entries we hold in the Metal Gear series. It arrived a year after Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes. The next entry was Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain - Collector's Edition in 2015. Its critic score of 96 is 15 points above the series average of 81. The highest-rated entry is Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence at 98.
How it was received
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain holds a critic score of 96 out of 100. That places it above 99% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2015 averaged 69, so it scored 27 points above the year average. Players rate it 90, 6 points lower than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 101 hrs. At its current cheapest price of $15.89, that works out to about $0.16 per hour of the main story.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core i5-4460 (3.40 GHz) or better; Quad-core or better, 4 GB RAM and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 (2GB) or better (DirectX 11 card Required). At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 28GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $15.89 at Fanatical, 21% below its usual price. Across the 8 stores we track, the same game ranges up to $29.99 — a spread of $14.10 for an identical product. Storefront pricing varies enormously by country: India is the cheapest region we track at ₹769.00 (about $8.09), while Germany pays €29.99 — 4.2 times more. In Pakistan it is priced at Rs 20 on Steam, which is about $19.99.
What it launched against
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain launched on 1 September 2015, within three weeks of Undertale, Until Dawn, Mad Max and Soma. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4. It arrived 2 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Undertale, Until Dawn, Mad Max, Soma.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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