Without Kojima, Metal Gear becomes a multiplayer zombie action game

When Metal Gear Solid series auteur Hideo Kojima left Konami under extremely strained circumstances last year, many worried about what the corporate parent would do with the storied Metal Gear franchise IP it still controlled. Well worry no longer: the newly announced Metal Gear Survive stays true to the series' long-established roots of stealth action, amazing visuals, and multiplayer, interdimensional battles against zombie hordes.

Wait, what was that last part?

Yes, despite the Metal Gear branding, Survive looks like it couldn't be much more different from the well-known Metal Gear Solid games. Set just after the events of Metal Gear Solid 5: Ground Zeroes, the online multiplayer game will let four characters from that game's Mother Base fight together to survive against "living biological threats" in "a distorted desert landscape" that's part of "an alternate timeline caused by unexplained wormholes forming in the sky," according to a press release.

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