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Konami Announces The "Metal Gear Survive" Video Game Post Kojima

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What is the Metal Gear series without its creator, Hideo Kojima? It is really hard to imagine how the series will continue without Kojima as he moves out of Konami to put out his own studios. With the divorce, Konami are announcing a new title under the Metal Gear franchise post-Kojima. Called the “Metal Gear Survive” and players will have to survive fighting what looks like to be zombies in this game.

Metal Gear Survive takes place after Metal Gear Solid 5: Ground Zeroes with a group soldiers from soldiers from Militaires Sans Frontières getting sucked into an alternate universe through a wormhole when these started appearing in the sky. Being put into an unfamiliar place, the characters will have to fight their way back home, with droves of zombie-like creatures out to get them.

Sounds interesting as zombie shooter games are always popular among video gamers. Even the Call of Duty franchise has a zombie mode. But a letdown for players, apart from being not a Kojima creation, is that Solid Snake is not in this game.

Four players will need to cooperate to survive in the game and in keeping with Metal Gear tradition; stealth will play an important tactic with covert operations needed to be done in order to escape biological threats. As said in their press release, they have a “brand new co-op, Stealth game that takes a divergent look at familiar Metal Gear themes and pursues a fresh spirit of exploration in unique gameplay mechanics.”  Apart from pistols and rifles, a bow and arrow is now introduced in the game, which is much better to use if you are talking about using stealth weapons.

Will players bite with this game that does not have the signature of Kojima? It remains to be seen and perhaps is just a way for Konami to wring whatever revenue they can still get from the Metal Gear franchise, which may have written off with the departure of its creator.

Metal Gear Survive will be released to Windows PC, Sony PlayStation 4 and Microsoft Xbox One in 2017.

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