What you need to know about Metal Gear Survive, including release date, story details, and trailers!
Metal Gear Survive Release Date
Metal Gear Survive is set to release in 2017. The game is coming to XBO, PS4, and PC.
Marketed as an "addition to the Metal Gear Solid V experience," Metal Gear Survive is a supernatural spin-off of the main game. And since it's an "addition," it won't be retailed as a full price game, according to Konami brand manager Richard Jones in an interview with Eurogamer. The site goes on to suggest that the lower price might indicate that Metal Gear Survive will be a much smaller game than MGSV—perhaps the size of Ground Zeroes, which wasn't much longer than a tech demo.
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Metal Gear Survive Trailer
Konami took the stage at TGS 2016 to introduce the first 15 minutes of gameplay footage for Metal Gear Survive, a spin-off of the main series that involves zombies, alternate dimensions, melee weapons, and co-op gameplay. Yes, this is a very different experience from what fans have come to expect from the franchise. Time will tell if it's an ultimately successful shift in gameplay. Check out the footage below:
Also attending TGS to promote his first post-Konami game, Death Stranding, Hideo Kojima nixed any lingering hopes that he might have helped develop Metal Gear Survive before his departure from Konami in 2015. "That's nothing to do with me!" Kojima said, according to a report on IGN.
"The Metal Gear games are about political fiction and espionage," Kojima observed. "Where do zombies fit in with that?"
Yoji Shinkawa, the artist and designer who gave the Metal Gear games their distinctive look, added, "If I had worked on that game, it would have mechs in it."
Unsurprisingly, perhaps, Metal Gear Survive doesn't exactly have the seal of approval from its creator. What impact that'll have on its popularity remains to be seen; that Survive appears to lack Kojima's trademark oddness - and, yes, Shinkawa's giant mechs - may prove to be a bigger turn-off for the series' legion fans. You can take a look for yourself at Survive in action below.
Konami released a debut trailer for the game at Gamescom 2016. Watch it and try not to fall out of your chair:
It's not as surprising a direction as you would think, if you consider that there have always been supernatural elements in the Metal Gearseries. That said, Metal Gear Survive makes the supernatural it's main focus. While the game isn't part of the Metal Gear Solid series, it does take place between the events of Ground Zeroes and The Phantom Pain. The trailer opens with the assault on Mother Base that put Big Boss in a coma. Those who don't die in the Mother Base attack travel through a wormhole to an alternate dimension where the survivors must fight off weird crystalline zombies ("living biological threats," according to Konami). Yes, that's a sentence I just wrote.
The game features four-player online co-op, although the game won't stray too far from the series' traditional stealth gameplay. New weaponry will also be introduced to combat creatures and lethal environments as well. From the trailer, it looks like spears and crossbows will be two such weapons.
No details on whether any of the series' main characters will appear in the new game, although I kind of doubt it. It would be very cool to see some of the supernatural enemies, though. This setting certainly screams for Volgin's "Man on Fire." The end of the trailer seems to tease the appearance of at least one Metal Gear, as well.
"Metal Gear Survive will offer a fresh take on the series’ famed stealth elements, but within a unique co-op setting that is designed for a truly engrossing multiplayer experience," said Tomotada Tashiro, European President for Konami Digital Entertainment.