GAME TECH: Metal Gear a master of modernity

NO ONE likes a snake in the grass but, then again, most snakes don’t wear camouflage, have a bionic arm and carry enough weapons to host the Hunger Games. Most snakes don’t knock you out, tie you to a balloon and send you back to an army base on the ocean.

Most snakes, in short, aren’t Hideo Kojima’s Snake, who makes a triumphant return in Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. It’s the best game of this console generation so far. Metal Gear was also one of last generation’s best games, along with the generation before that, and the generation before that.

This series has stood the test of time, adapted to change upon change in the industry, and that is what makes The Phantom Pain so special. Hideo Kojima has taken everything that is brilliant about Metal Gear Solid and propelled it into modernity.