The game itself will also include the Konami Code as a means to unlock Very Hard Mode/Revengeance Mode early. Inputting it on the title screen also will have Raiden say the title of the game, mirroring a standard utilized with the Capcom survival horror franchise Resident Evil.

Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain is an open world game focused on giving freedom to the player who will drive Snake's actions. Snake himself will be more of a silent protagonist similar to Mad Max in Mad Max 2. It's the characters around him who will expand the story."

The online servers for Metal Gear Solid 5 will be shutting down for good on May 31, 2022 on PS3 and Xbox 360, according to a recent info alert from Konami. Players will no longer be able to make in-game purchases on the two platforms starting today, and will no longer be able to purchase DLC as of November 30.

After months of confusion, it was revealed that The Phantom Pain is actually the subtitle of the core Metal Gear Solid V game. It will be set in 1984, and take place nine years after the events of Ground Zeroes.

The Konami Code was first used in the release of Gradius (1986), a scrolling shooter for the NES and was popularized among North American players in the NES version of Contra. The code is also known as the "Contra Code" and "30 Lives Code", since the code provided the player 30 extra lives in Contra.

METAL GEAR SOLID V: THE PHANTOM PAIN Yes. You can't go without hurting someone, but you most certainly can go without killing anybody.

While Venom is yet another clone of Big Boss, (in more of a mental sense than a physical one) the fact that he had an entire life before becoming a clone makes him a far more interesting character as a result. In many respects, he's The Phantom Pain's silver lining.

Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain ends after Mission 46, although there are four more missions beyond that. But the collector's edition set includes the spoiler-filled footage above of a 51st event that could help wrap up the game's ambiguous story.

This brings us to the ultimate revelation. The Big Boss who dies in the explosion of the fortress of Outer Heaven is the “phantom” born from the explosion of the chopper in Ground Zeroes. The “real” Big Boss is elsewhere, building Zanzibar Land (a specular reflection of Outer Heaven).

model Stefanie Joosten Quiet was modeled after, motion captured and voiced by Dutch model Stefanie Joosten. She received a phone call from her agency to audition as a motion capture actress for an unspecified video game.

Konami Group Corporation (Japanese: コナミグループ株式会社, Hepburn: Konami Gurūpu kabushiki-gaisha.) is a Japanese multinational entertainment company headquartered in Chūō, Tokyo. The company also produces and distributes trading cards, anime, tokusatsu, pachinko machines, slot machines, and arcade cabinets.

Growth is slowing for the Japanese giant, but its gaming and systems division still brought in the bucks. Konami generated 314,321 million yen ($2.3 billion) in the 2022-2023 financial year, representing a 4.9% increase from 299,522 million yen ($2.2 billion) the previous year, according to its latest financial report.