METAL GEAR SOLID V: GROUND ZEROES
Intense overall intensityWhat's in it
The story turns on the imprisonment, interrogation and torture of hostages, one of them a captured child soldier, with abuse and cruelty shown on screen and driving the plot.
The scripted dialogue includes strong profanity, including 'fuck'.
Realistic firearm and close-quarters combat against human soldiers with blood on hits; no dismemberment or gore.
Antagonist characters torture two captured hostages on screen; the player witnesses these acts but does not carry them out.
An interrogation recording strongly implies the sexual assault of a female captive; it is heard rather than shown, and the player does not take part.
A graphic surgical sequence shows a bomb being cut from a captive's abdomen, presented as body horror the player watches rather than causes.
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What it is
Ground Zeroes is a single-player stealth action game and a short prologue to Metal Gear Solid V. Playing as the soldier Snake, you infiltrate a fortified American black site on Cuban soil to rescue two captives, sneaking past or taking down armed guards with tranquilizers, firearms, and close-quarters takedowns. Combat is realistic and shows blood, though there is no dismemberment or gore. The tone is deliberately bleak: the plot turns on the torture and abuse of prisoners held at the camp — one of them a teenage former child soldier — an audio recording that strongly implies the sexual assault of a captive, and a graphic cutscene in which a bomb is cut out of a character's body. Scripted dialogue contains strong profanity. There is no online play, chat, or in-game spending.
How it's framed
The game frames the camp's captors as perpetrators of cruelty and presents torture and sexual violence as atrocity rather than spectacle, delivering the worst of it through audio recordings and cutscenes rather than as actions the player performs; the player's role is infiltration and rescue.
Details
- Developer
- KONAMI
- Publisher
- KONAMI
- Released
- Dec 18, 2014
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