In Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, you play as Venom Snake. Also released as part of Metal Gear Solid V: The Definitive Experience for PS4 and Xbox One. Originally released as Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain in 2015 for PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, and PC. To accomplish his mission, the nameless soldier uses, among other things, a Metal Gear that also ended up in the parallel world. Here the player must survive amidst zombies and other strange creatures, and find a solution to the zombie infection. The player, an unnamed soldier, is later sent to this world as well.

In the aftermath of the destruction of Mother Base in 1975, part of the base is sucked into a parallel world through a wormhole. Unlike the main games, Survive is not a stealth game: it’s a survival game with zombies. Therefore, Survive is not considered canon by many fans, but the game is directly related to the main series. Metal Gear Survive was made after Hideo Kojima had already left publisher Konami. Released as Metal Gear Survive in 2018 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC. Ground Zeroes ends with the destruction of Mother Base, connecting directly to The Phantom Pain. Several characters from Peace Walker return in this game, including Kazuhira Miller and Paz Ortega Andrade. In the short story taking place in 1975, Big Boss is hired to infiltrate a U.S. Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes acts as a prologue to Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain.

Later also released as part of Metal Gear Solid V: The Definitive Experience for PS4 and Xbox One. Originally released as Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes in 2014 for PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, and PC. In 2014, the story of Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker was adapted into a book by Japanese writer Hitori Nojima. Throughout the years, many spin-offs of Metal Gear Solid have been released, which aren’t considered canon. Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots.Set in 2005, released in 1998 (The Twin Snakes in 2004) Click on a title to read more about that particular videogame. This is the chronological order of Metal Gear Solid.

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