Metal Gear Solid has always had incredible gameplay, even if the story and nonsense fiction behind it all has always grated with me a little bit. Ok, well, quite a lot. But when the game is ticking? When all of those component parts are all working together there’s very little else that compares. Over the years, then, people have pined for an online Metal Gear game. They want to take that gameplay and use their skills online versus other people.
Metal Gear Solid 4 was the first with online gameplay. It was a lot of fun, if a little bit rough around the edges. It was not quite up the standards you might expect of a Metal Gear game in terms of stealth, but the foundations were there for something good. Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain has a revamped system but it won’t be available until the base game has settled down for a couple of weeks. We wait with baited breath.