Unit 60 Games Industry: July 2015

Title of Game: Metal Gear Solid V: GROUND ZEROES

Genre: Tactical Espionage - Action-Adventure Stealth

Narrative/Storyline: Following on from the storyline of Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, a few months after the events of Peace Walker continues to work with Militaires Sans Frontières (MSF). Snake has to infiltrate an American black site located in Cuba known as Camp Omega. Prior to this, Snake and Kaz finds out the Chico (a Sandinista and a former child soldier) disappeared from the boat that was meant to drop him off near the MSF base. Snake and Kaz figure out after hearing the distress signal that Chico left that he was captured whilst trying to find Paz Ortega Andrade (a possible double agent working for Cipher) whereabouts. Chico was captured and tortured by Skull Face who is the commander of the XOF (Reverse of FOX) who control the black site.

During the Peace Walker incident, Paz was missing and was presumed dead and MSF decided to focus on the inspection that may cause some problems for them. The UN was suspicious as to whether MSF has a hold on a nuclear weapon which MSF believes that it is just Cipher trying to aggrevate the organization. However, the Intel team they have in Cuba found out and confirmed that Paz was still alive albeit captured and held at Camp Omega. This is what may have caused Chico to try and rescue Paz but he ultimately ends up getting captured, as well as tortured for information. This endangered MSF due to the fact that they could compromise information pertaining Metal Gear ZEKE and the nuke. Snake infiltrates Camp Omega and his mission is to extract Chico and Paz if they are alive but if both of them was silenced, find out what they may revealed to their captors. Paz is an advantageous reason for rescuing her due to the fact that Cipher is less likely to do anything if one of the agents is able to reveal information freely. Whilst Snake begins his infiltration, the XOF Unit departs in several helicopters, presumably to the MSF Mother Base. Snake sees the camp that holds the POW's (Prisoners of War) and find Chico among them but not Paz. Chico claims that Paz is dead because of him but Snake and Kaz (Kazuhira 'Kaz' Miller) thinks otherwise. Through the cassette that Chico hands to Snake, they deduce through the sounds heard in the cassette tape that Paz is still alive. Chico is carried to Morpho (Single Helicopter Unit tasked to dispatch and extract Snake onto the area.) and Snake proceeds to find where they are holding Paz within Camp Omega.

Snake proceeds deeper into the camp and located Paz in a holding cell bruised from the interrogation. Seemingly having lost her senses, Snake carries her towards the extraction point along with Chico, the POW's and Morpho One back to Mother Base. On the way, Chico notices that Paz has been bleeding and may have an injury, which she actually has (In the form of a V - possibly referencing the the number of the game or V as in the sign of peace which is ironic as to what had happened previously.) Snake asks for the medic to examine her and they begin hearing a sound coming from the wound. Having figured that they had been set-up, Snake, Chico and medic begin the procedure to get rid of the bomb out of her. After all of this happens, several moments late, the pilot notices something whilst heading back to Mother Base and Snake opens the hatch to witness that Mother Base has been razed. XOF helicopters flying around the area dropping of XOF soldiers and firefights across between them and the MSF solders. Snake begins firing at the enemy force, covering for the units on the platform they were landing on. Kaz is with the unit the Snake was covering and was injured prior to Snake arriving. One of their main researchers and the technical creator of Metal Gear ZEKE, Dr. 'Huey' Emmerich notifies Snake of the situation and explains what happened to Metal Gear ZEKE and the nuke it was carrying.

After successfuly extracting several MSF soldiers and Kaz from the now destroyed Mother Base, Paz gains conciousness and tells Snake and everyone else to get away from her as she tells them that she still has another bomb. In an attempt to save Snake and the rest of the people on Morpho, Paz opens the hatch and jumps out but being too late, the force of the explosion threw Morpho out of control and collides with a pursuing XOF helicopter. After all of this happens, Snake and Kaz is shown to be heavily injured in what seems to be in a hospital. Kaz shouting, almost desperate to save Snake from his close-to-death state. In actual fact, it almost seems like Snake flatlined and seemingly died but is show afterwards to be alive after waking up and the nurse that was tending to him notices. The doctor explains the situation and Snake is told that he has been in a coma for 9 years. It wasn't confirmed which and how many people survived the attack but Snake, Kaz and Huey are known to be alive.

In the epilogue, it is revealed that the United States is trying to cover up the incident and claims to have not been involved with any of MSF's activites and this also includes every other MSF client. Another scene plays out, albeit just audio; prior to Snake arriving at Camp Omega, Skull Face is interrogating Paz for information regarding Cipher, also known as Zero - Paz had actually met Zero in person. It is hinted that she may have revealed some information about Zero on the condition that 'Big Boss' (Snake) will not be attacked and is safe from any Danger. Skull Face promises that he would but as the previous events clearly showed, he clearly lied.

Characters: The main characters are as follows: 'Big Boss' Snake, Kazuhira "Kaz" Miller, Dr. "Huey" Emmerich, Skull Face, Ricardo "Chico" Valenciano Libre, Paz Ortega Andrande. Each of these characters are linked into the story in some way and each have their own independent importance. Chico and Paz are the current victims that Snake will have to save, just in case of any compromise of any information. Kaz and Huey are the ones who inform Snake of the situation on the black site and Mother Base. Skull Face seems to be the main antagonist in this scenario as he was the one that captured and tortured both Chico and Paz and destroyed Mother Base.

Snake is the protagonist in this story and the player controls him throughout all of the game. He will be the main focus of the the story due to fact that every event happening is connected to him in some way such as Paz being captured after being sent overboard in the Peace Walker incident. Paz being connected to an organisation known as Cipher and working under a anonymous figure known as Zero, the people who captured her believes she has extremely valuable information.

Platform: Consoles - Xbox 360/One, PS3/PS4 and Microsoft Windows (PC)
These platforms were chosen in order of generation during production from the Xbox 360 and PS3 to Xbox One and PS4. PC was most likely ported during/after the development of the Xbox One/PS4 versions. The game was released with a physical copy, with the newer generation at a later date. The PC version was the only platform not to recieve a physical but was put onto a third-party platform, Steam.

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Unit 60 Games Industry

Monday, 13 July 2015

LO3: Task 1 - Review Tested Games - Metal Gear Solid V: GROUND ZEROES

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