5) Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
Why do we so desperately want to see this game in action? Because we paid $40 for the first level already, and we’d just really like to finish it. As offensively brief as it was, Ground Zeros was a pretty good little game, and we absolutely know that the best is yet to come.
Hideo Kojima seems to be tackling aim at some pretty taboo subjects here, as he’s done in Metal Gears of the past – most obviously the notion of phantom limb pain, the sensation of agonizing physical suffering in an arm or leg despite it no longer being attached. With many soldiers returning from the war in the Middle East disabled by IEDs, this is Social Commentary 101.
Kojima’s contemporary allegories are always entertaining, and the prospect of spending more time with Snake is always appealing, too. In short, we can’t wait to sink our teeth into it.