METAL GEAR SOLID V: THE PHANTOM PAIN

I really love this game
The story and gameplay are legendary
A Hideo Kojima Game

Online Ruined my offline experience

40% done all offline and connected online to see what was up and moved over 2/3 of my fucking inventory to fucking online and now i have to have hotspot on just to fucking use my materials or vehicles i collected for the last 20 fucking hours of playing.
Trash fucking system and fuck playing more of this. fucking garbage
just needed intel and support and medical to upgrade 4/4
whoever designed that shit i hope your kids come out mentally defective

even though an unfinish game, still a masterpiece to play it,
nice stealth gaming, wish it was a real open world

classic 100% worth it / replaying
decent weapon selection!

Spectacularly made, second best game I've ever played apart from Dishonored 2. Gameplay is smooth and glitch-free, the graphics and cut scenes are pure cinema, and the buddy system is immaculate. Story is confusing at times, but it's technically an unfinished game so you can't really fault it for that. Ridiculously difficult most of the time too, so if you like a challenge, oh-ho-ho-HO this game delivers! Tugs at your heartstrings a few times too, second video game to ever make me cry. Absolutely 3000% cannot recommend this game enough.

Simply the most original take on a franchise that only mildly re-invented itself upon each release.

Then MGS5 is released and it massively reinvents itself for the better in every aspect. Its open world. Both maps are huge. It can be played full stealth, full out third person shooter mayhem or a combination of both.
A brilliant game engine, an insane attention to detail, infinite replayability, a sense of humour, coupled with an eccentric and fun story just lead me to conclude that this is the open world game design other open world games need to emulate. Theses a Base building section, you recruit members for your covert army from enemies you defeat. Do you like that tank the baddie is using? Airlift that sucker out and now its YOUR tank! Raid outposts and bases for materials, save the wildlife in the war zones if you want, brutalise the enemy, or take want you want and vanish like a leaf on the wind. It's truly an open game.

With 50 story missions which can sometimes take hours ( if you want them to), and around 175 side missions ( all but a few are optional), this game is worth its asking price.

If you like open world games, this is for you. I simply cannot give this game enough credit for its brilliance.

But it now, and be prepared for a wonderful all encompassing experience, that, at this time, I can not ever see being equalled

This game is far more enjoyable than I thought it would be. I been a fan of the Metal Gear series, but MGS5 took the cake,

The only real way to experience this game -

Step 1. Mute all in-game audio, including dialog, etc.
Step 2. Play "Invisible" by Duran Duran in background at max volume on loop
Step 3. Enjoy

I didn't know it was possible for there to be a game with pure gameplay as good as this game.



If only the story was finished

This game is a masterpiece of the stealth genre. I have over 500 hours in on my PS5 save, I just bought the game again so I can play it on Steam Deck

Masterpiece!!!!

In my opinion the most complete metal gear that exists. The open world experience combined with classic stealth missions are super funny.
I've replayed this game in SteamDeck, and it works perfectly, but it doesn't have that much merit taking into account that the game was originally published in 2015.

Gameplay:
A very strategic game where you need to infiltrate in enemies bases and stole info, rss, evacuate allies/prisoners an avoid a world nuclear war from the (XoF). U will be have the control of a horse to drive you in the whole map, vehicles, weapons, allies, teach and info to make the missions more easiest to complete. You can make your own private base and army capturing survivors and enemies.
It have a multiplayer mode where u can create, defend and attack enemies bases from other players and stole rss and stuffs.


History:
You play as Big Boss after waking up from a coma of 9 years after the fall or the mother base. In the middles of the cold war and the upcoming nuclear weapons and one mother time the worlds need you one more time to defeat a clandestine group called (XoF). You play as Snakes (BigBoss) Driven by the need for revenge founds a new private army to fight against this the mortal enemies to try to defeat them and avoid a world nuclear war and do not let them take the control of the world.

Conclusion:
A very enjoyable action-adventure game dat u can enjoy as single player or in a multiplayer, lot of hours of gameplay guaranteed.

Score: 8/10.

Best gameplay out of all them, still prefer the console version, story was not bad but some of the main missions just felt like they could be side op missions, overall what a great game, sadly we never got chapter 3

Kind of a mixed bag. On one hand, this is the best game in the series mechanically. On the other, it is by the worst narratively, and your mileage on that will vary depending on how big a fan of the rest of the series you are; ironically, the clearly unfinished nature of the back half of this means that casual fans and newcomers will probably get the most out of this. Still, chapter 2 is straight up terrible. Hours upon hours of transparent padding (literal repeated missions! That are not optional!) in a slow trudge to an ending that is genius in theory but woefully miscalculated in execution -- this exact heel turn was so much more effective and disturbing in Sons of Liberty, which this is clearly quoting (Mother Base looking exactly like the main setting of MGS2 is clearly no accident). The AU version of this game where Kojima didn't spend the last third of development in an uphill battle with Konami is probably the greatest video game ever made. The one we have is still a very fun stealth game, and probably the best game to ever be released in a clearly unfinished state.

MGSV is among my most played games. Other stealth games I've enjoyed include Splinter Cell, Dishonored, and Hitman. MGSV absolutely hits the spot as a giant open-world stealth sandbox. Even 10 years after its release, it still holds up—both the gameplay and the graphics.

The freedom to complete missions however you like is unmatched. You can go full stealth or guns blazing if you want. You unlock a lot of weapons, gadgets, and tools which make replaying missions lots of fun just trying out new approaches. Different companions support different playstyles too, whether you want to zip across the map or have combat support. After playing for a bit, I'd encourage you to look up how others play because you'll have these "aha" moments all the time learning how to make full use of the kit the game provides.

At times, it's a wonderfully silly game too, and one that doesn't take itself too seriously. The cardboard box, for example, being a totally valid stealth tool. You can also put posters of women on the outside of the box to lure guards to you, then knock them out. Or you can request supplies via parachute and drop them directly on an enemy's head. Just look up videos on YouTube of people doing funny things in MGSV and you'll get what I mean.

I didn't play any previous MGS games and just jumped right into this. As a result, the story was confusing at times. I'm not sure how much of the confusion is just it being a Kojima game though. In any case, some major story beats probably didn't hit as hard because I didn't play the previous games, but it's still an enjoyable and interesting. Cutscenes are very cinematic. There's a lot of underlying messages and themes in the story.

I've gotten 2 long playthroughs of ~80 hours each, once at launch and another more recently. And I still haven't unlocked everything or replayed every mission the way I wanted, so there's a lot of game left for me still. So if stealth games are your thing, you'll probably get a lot of mileage out of this game.

A classic, great gameplay, the freedom to tackle missions form different angles is really fun!
If you can get it with a discount do so, be careful with mods though as some of them may get you banned from servers, however some of them really improve the quality of life, gameplay and replayability of the game.

While Konami harmed the story greatly by shoving it out the door, it's still top-notch stealth and action gameplay.

I was INVISIBLE during these stealth missions. The walls of the soviet facility were made out of METAL for some reason. I wonder what more of tactical GEAR I missed out on. SOLID game, 5/5. Soviet soldiers thought I was PHANTOM during one of these missions. It did leave me in PAIN after I found out that DURAN DURAN's song was really hard to find.

MGSV is a fundamentally unfinished game that contains brief glimpses of a world where it is the best video game efur made. i recommend it, but i recommend the chip and ironicus let's play over actually playing it. the latter is free and does a good job of exploring REALLY thoroughly what this game has to offur. if you're a sicko though, absolutely get this game. there are things this game does well that modern video games are still despurrately trying to recapture a decade later.

Fabulous game, and one of the greatest of the 2010s. As the last installment in the Metal Gear franchise before Kojima left the studio, he masterfully weaves themes of war, leadership, and the everlasting struggle of humanity's duality.

It's hard to truly express its impact without diving too deep into the story, but I'm sure that anyone who has played this game will understand its general ethos.

Beyond the artistic aspects, the game is also tons of fun. At the time of its release, Kojima had been perfecting his take on the action-stealth genre for the better part of two decades since 1998, and it shows. Brilliant stealth mechanics, a truly diverse range of gadgets that allow you to tackle situations in whichever way you want, and a detailed world that feels fleshed out.

Incredible game.

Out of the MGS games i've played this is my favorite. It's story is kind.. ok... but the gameplay makes up for it imo. While MGS 1-3 all have better stories none of them have me coming back like this one does. I still want to finish 100% this game despite the amount of content it has. Alongside Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom this game is one of the few open world games I have truly loved.

very swagger game i punched kids for 3 hours once i popped into africa (im not racist it was just funny)

Such an epic game that just makes you yearn for more. It is truly epic

I never had thought that I would find this game a masterpiece which went under my radar for 9 years.. Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain is damn solid and wholesome gaming experience and the way that how it succeeds to invent itself over and over again chaining me to my chair for hours and hours, made me realize how addicting and destructing the gaming can be to busy adult life. ^^

Jokes aside, the thing which makes it even more amazing is that its almost a decade old game and technically nothing becomes even close to the features that let's you to be an ultimate commando going guns and cannons blazing like Rambo or wiping an entire village of enemies in silence like a Predator. Stealth is one of or even the hardest genre to create properly for it needs so strict and delicate work to provide an outcome that gameplay won't feel too frustrating or too easy. The experience should be hard to master, but yet again so easy to learn and rewarding. This is the thing where the game shines like a diamond thanks to features like Reflex Mode and eternal freedom to choose your tactical approach on big wide open areas that gives you just the right amount of freedom and mercy to fix a mistake, but yet again won't forgive you much more than that. Although even if you should mess up bad you are usually gonna be okay for Snake can take a bullet or two, especially if you have handled most of the enemies at breaking point. In my whole playthrough I cursed unfairness only few times while messing my well proceeding stealth and all the rest of hundreds of times I knew that blowing was on me and only my own mistake. While stealth gets a bit more complicated when the game proceeds this is compensated by achieved technology making the game even more entertaining! By unlocking even better assets and weaponry with money achieved throughout main missions, side missions and sold resources you'll find yourself taking the enemies quicker and badassier and just when you might feel satisfied the game provides you with something even better. All this huge variety of tactical approach is set into big open world of two large areas welcoming you always with something fresh.

In addition of doing missions and earning money you also manage your base that is pretty straightforward, but adds a nice features to fill it by volunteers and enemies you extract from battlefields. Each recruited has different skills and especially in the beginning it is always exciting to be able to extract some very talented enemy to your ranks, especially after you have risked the whole operation to neutralize that one guy non lethally. The safest and most stable way is to kill enemies of course, but getting some specialist to your team can be that crucial it'll be wothy to take the chance. The better your staff is the better your stuff is - shortly describing this is about your gear, support, intel gathering tools, and medical assets. After certain point getting enemies extracted and volunteers become so easy that this is no longer so huge deal, but especially in the early missions the talented specialist or elite among normal soldiers is like a rare Pokemon waiting to be tamed.

After spending over 90 hours with it and beating the main storyline, only thing which bugs me could be described as phantom pain for the feeling that something is missing and was cut out - a flaw in the game which despite of this ranks so high in my book. The storyline is odd and unfinished and while it delivers some epic cutscenes with twists and turns somehow the execution dryes out a little bit, but just enough that it is obvious that devs and Hideo Kojima might have ran out of time to transcribe the plot and rearrange/recompose some scenes. Knowing that many mock this game for the story I therefore add that I am not claiming that the story would be bad, but rather a disappointment of the lost opportunity that had made this an ultimate game with a plot which the rest of the game's majesty should have deserved. On the other hand knowing Hideo's nature to create mysterious phenomons like P.T. it could have been a plan all along to leave the player wondering "whatta feck" time to time. Although there is some material of deleted scenes which prove that something was meant to be attached and this have made a fans all over the world to theorize and speculate how the things would have wrapped originally - some even say that the missing chapter is still hidden in the game never to be discovered and this just underlines how epic this game is and how its legend lives on. Lives on in Tabula Rasa, for Kojima got actually fired for the game, as ridiculous it sounds, but game industry is business like any other and this game took 80 million dollars to make, which technically shows, but the selling numbers did not match nearly with this.

Nevertheless, buy this game! I don't care in full price or in sale, for Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain is a classic and it's value priceless and solid like a platinum even with its loose end! Just remember to pick The Definitive Edition to pick the short, but vital introduction chapter Ground Zeroes.

MGSV is my first Metal Gear game so I don't really understand the story, although I hear nobody does anyways. The game play is very fun and dynamic though, with a ton of tools you can use to accomplish fun missions.

the feet models and textures are insanely detailed holy kojima another masterpiece in story telling bravo

With regards to the story, it is one of the weakest MGS titles, but gameplay-wise it is top-notch. Tons of weapons, items and battle gear to upgrade and configure so one can very easily spend 100-200h on this gem. Even with it's (very few) shortcomings, it is a must-play for most gamers.

Walking by the wall
The shadows will not fall
Is silently ignored
Discouraged by the noise
Living without choice
Is a life without a voice

When you can't even say my name
Has the memory gone? Are you feeling numb?
Go and call my name
I can't play this game, so I ask again
Will you say my name?
Has the memory gone? Are you feeling numb?
Or have I become invisible?

It's sad that the story wasn't finished properly, but the game and the game-play are peak for the Metal Gear Solid franchise.

A good game but it is VERY long to complete. Good graphics, sound, and combat.

A decade after its release , there still isn't any military open world stealth game. I've 100% this game on ps4 back in the day. But bought this game on pc as this is a MUST HAVE for stealth fans. This game is a TIMELESS MASTERPIECE. Is it perfect ? NO !!! Its an INCOMPLETE GAME, WITH INCOMPLETE STORY due to the abrupt exit of KOJIMA. But what's here is UNMATCHED TACTICAL STEALTH ESPIONAGE GAMEPLAY. Every mission can be completed in how much ever varieties you can think of. Fox engine offers great performance and solid visuals. 10/10 for gameplay !!!

This is in my top 5 best games. more than a decade later I still play it. Matter of fact there's no other game with the same quality as this one. Peace walker maybe you get the mechanics and sandbox but nothing as well put together as this masterpiece. Also 'she needs to be half naked because she feeds through photosynthesis' is one of the best plot points ever fabricated

What a game!

Build your own army and take on missions using a candy shop of toys and tools. While this isn't a traditional Metal Gear game in terms of story, what it is, is incredibly immersive and engaging. One of the best stealth games of the modern era.

Set during era of the cold war you sneak around collecting resources to build your base of operations, and recruit soldiers of various talents by putting them to sleep or holding them up, and attaching a giant balloon to their backs. hahaha. It's a wild ride.

Pros. for a 2015 game, it still goes as smooth as the games until now
Cons. literally chapter 2 was unfinished, it was great until then. (story and gameplay)

Absolutely perfect, down to each and every minute detail. Venoms story was sad, the end had me staring at the screen for a good 5 minutes. Love the game play, side content is standard and the harder versions of the story missions are excellent. Weapon variety perfect. When you can't even say my name
Has the memory gone? Are you feeling numb?
Go and call my name
I can't play this game, so I ask again
Will you say my name?
Has the memory gone? Are you feeling numb?
Or have I become invisible?

Truly a staple in stealth games

ive been playing this game on xbox since release, been on and off pc through the years and the game never disappoints me. the replay value is 10/10 and the FOB missions are what keep me interested. im sad the story never got finished but i love the mgs franchise and love this game to the end. if you havent ever played this, definitely give it a shot, you wont regret it. just keep your gmp out of the red.

There is genuinely very little I would change about this game. The missions are excellent, the gameplay is tight, and the graphics hold up super well.

Is the story dumb? Sure. Is Quiet a completely ridiculous character? Yes. Is Hideo Kojima an insane person? You betcha. Still an incredible game.

Love this game use to play it a lot on the old PS3, still great even in 2025.

This game came out almost 10 years ago and its immeasurably better than the vast majority of triple A games that have released since then. Konami may be pieces of isht but Kojima cancels that out and I can't stop playing. This game is fucking amazing. If you've never played Metal Gear before dont let the prologue mission turn you away. I have 52 hours in this game and Im only barely playing through the second region in the game because you can sink that much time into it and still find new stuff to do. It rewards you for taking your sweet time and doing everything perfectly, and the best part is that absolutely none of it feels like a chore.

I love D Dog

buy this game please

Even though Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain was released back in 2015, it still holds up as one of the best open-world stealth games ever made. The gameplay is smooth, the AI is challenging, and the amount of freedom you have in completing missions is unmatched. The story might be divisive, but the attention to detail and immersive world make up for it.

Even after all these years, few games can match the depth and creativity of MGSV. If you haven't played it yet, you're missing out on an incredible experience.

Thank you, Kojima, for this masterpiece

One of the best game i've ever played, if you're only thinking about buying or playing it i recommend it without thinking even at full price, you have a shit tonne of content, i recommend very strongly

i bet the main story game within 12 days, i already knew all the spoilers from watching game play late of last year. sitting down and actually playing the game myself made me love it 100000% more, its so well written and some parts even made me cry, this has to be one of my favorite games of all time, the only complaints is how hard a "certain" mission is, i wont spoil it but god i had to try a billion times, this game is so beautifully written and i love kojima and the way he writes his games, especially the MGS franchise.

This game made me turn into a kleptomaniac who can only think of stealing anything and anyone that isn't bolted to the ground. WHAT DO YOU MEAN I CAN'T FULTON A HELICOPTER!!! LIQUIIIIIIIIIIDDD!!!!

Way too repetitive and grindy for a single player game.

Side missions are all the same, and the increasing cost of developing and researching new weapons and tools take way too much money and time to be worthwhile.

And since all these "30h+" of mine I have spent in it is only around 25% of the completion, I am not gonna spend 120h+ to try and 100% it. Not valuing my time.

Outside of that, game is kinda fun, but again, except actually rather capable AI for its time, gunplay is atrocious. Aiming sucks, recoil does not make sense, and unless you are doing quiet one-shot-headshot kind of kills, good lucking doing anything else.

Hideo Kojima's last game in the metal gear franchise and one of the best in terms of gameplay. It took me 126 hours to get all achievements but it was fun through almost all of it. Def one of the better stealth games of the decade, play it 100%.

This game is an absolute masterpiece! Not to mention, this game is extremely well optimized.

Fantastic game, despite the bad story.

Honestly the best gameplay in the entire series, I don’t care if it wasn’t completely finished it is one of the best gaming experiences I’ve had and I’d honestly put it in my top 10 favorite games of all time.

great tactial game with multipale ways to complete a mission, and a rich story. very good game