New Metal Gear Game Coming This Year
It seems there will be a new Metal Gear game coming this year. Whether it’ll be a Ground Zeroes or something completely different is anybody’s guess – but you’ll be waiting for a long time for The Phantom Pain either way.
In a tweet from analyst David Gibson, he revealed that Konami are planning to announce a new game in the franchise very shortly, although The Phantom Pain won’t be available to purchase until 2015.
Konami – still saying smaller Metal Gear coming this year (to be announced soon) while TPP title wont be until FY end Mar 2015
— David Gibson (@gibbogame) August 14, 2013
Leading theories at this point range from Ground Zeroes – which was always meant as a prologue to The Phantom Pain, although exact details of how that would work have never been released – or Metal Gear Solid HD, which was spoken about earlier this year. In the latter’s case, it’s possible that, if it were literally just a HD buff up, they could have it done on a limited schedule. If they were to add new bits and pieces and re-record audio and such – which they’d need to do – it doesn’t seem likely.
And so this is one that we leave to Konami to answer, probably at Gamescom. They have an unannounced title there. It may end up a handheld game, but so long as it isn’t a spin-off (Metal Gear Ac!d 3), I’m sure it’ll be fantastic.
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