Once they're marked, an icon above their heads identifies tagged enemies. The process itself is pretty straightforward: spot enemies through your binoculars and "mark" them. Now, enemies must be tagged before Snake can track their positions. In Metal Gear Solid V, Snake uses a connected projection-based tablet-like device to track enemies and the environment. Kiss the Soliton Radar, Solid Eye, and motion sensors goodbye. Here, the game enters a bullet-time-like mode, and if Snake can take out the alerted enemy quick enough, be it with his fists or his firearm, he'll prevent a base-wide alert. When Snake is in view of enemies, a faint white glow appears in their direction. Many of the same tricks of the past still apply, but should enemies take notice of Snake, he has a chance to prevent them from triggering a full-blown alert. Jeep Wranglers aside, Snake will ultimately spend most of his time sneaking around on foot. Cars are loud and will alert the enemy to your presence, and in the heat of a firefight, sustaining damage to your vehicle, such as a flat tire, won't make your life any easier. He can also hijack vehicles, but that comes with considerable risk. When moving on foot, he can now scale new obstacles, including ladders, fences, and small buildings, but he's also capable of wrenching enemies from their posts while standing on a ladder, tossing them to the ground below. Snake has proved that he can sneak through environments undetected, but in Metal Gear Solid V, his options have expanded. Here, a lone red FOX badge is dropped from a helicopter, and it's up to Snake to find it and escape unharmed. The mission within the latest demo won't be in the final game, but it gave the developers a chance to present a variety of scenarios. It has been designed as a tutorial to ease you into the current iteration on the Metal Gear formula, and it seems that the hereto seen military base will make up the entirety of the Ground Zeroes experience.
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Metal Gear Solid V continues many of the trends set by previous games in the series, but a few subtle tweaks lend a modern coat of pain to the series that has barely changed since Metal Gear Solid debuted in 1998.įirst and foremost, Ground Zeroes is the prologue to the Phantom Pain, the primary component of Metal Gear Solid V. Kojima Productions presented the first live demo of Ground Zeroes at its new studio in Los Angeles yesterday, and despite the fact that most of the content was recycled from previous presentations, a few critical gameplay components made their debut: traversal, stealth, and combat.