Metal gear solid v the phantom pain soundtrack track list

METAL GEAR SOLID V THE PHANTOM PAIN SOUNDTRACK TRACK LIST SERIES

How could you ever have played MGS before without this? With each passing entry these have felt like the missing piece. Squad-based AI and tactics, interchangeable camo patterns, OctoCamo (maybe one of the most fascinating and frustratingly underused ideas ever to appear in a stealth game), robot scouts and Fulton extraction, to name just a few. Running down the series, the list of improvements and changes that have marked its progress is impressive.

METAL GEAR SOLID V THE PHANTOM PAIN SOUNDTRACK TRACK LIST SERIES

More than most, Metal Gear Solid has been a series that significantly evolves and changes over time, introducing new ideas and concepts into how you slither through battle zones as console technology has continually improved. This shouldn't keep anyone вЂ“ let alone an MGS vet вЂ“ from playing The Phantom Pain. Emphasising the broad array of player choices makes MGSV simultaneously the purest, most complex stealth sim and the least identifiably Kojima-styled entry ever. There are a number of established elements you expect from MGS, from experimental tweaks for sneaking to Kojima's bizarre, self-aware sense of humour. It both is and is not Metal Gear Solid its non-linear, episodic mission structure favours a form much closer to noted free-roam design than the series' aggressive take-it-or-leave it linearity of the past. You get used to it вЂ“ Kiefer is a different Snake because The Phantom Pain is built as something else. Narrative is delivered through short-ish (for MGS) sporadic cutscenes, with Kiefer Sutherland's take on Snake often little more than a cipher. Default settings dot the screen in video game-y UI bits, markers and waypoints, surrounding players in a shroud of open-world information. MGSV's mainstream approach is one of the most notably strange things about it. There's nothing quite like orchestrating a memorable situation by manipulating the game's design (much harder than you might think), then hitting the PS4's share button to save it at just the right moment. The close-ups and depth-of-field made it possible to take worthwhile pictures in the absence of a true photo mode, for one. It's a great addition, and not just as a Kojima signature. (Besides the director's unmistakable love of cinema, you've been able to zoom during cutscenes in every Metal Gear since MGS2.)

Outside of the occasional peek past a corner, zooming in doesn't really add much to the act of infiltration вЂ“ though The Phantom Pain will half-heartedly try to argue this point вЂ“ and yet it's so emblematic of Kojima's creative sensibilities it's a wonder the idea wasn't added to active gameplay years ago. At a glance, that this is included in MGSV's controls (and serves as the only type of 'interaction' in Hideo Kojima's defunct Silent Hills teaser P.T., for that matter) is funny.

Metal gear solid v the phantom pain soundtrack track list