Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes

A deep, entertaining stealth sandbox with endless scope for mastery. You kept us waiting, Kojima, but it was worth it.

A pricey game when originally released on consoles, on PC it's a real steal. The main quest is pretty short, but the replay value is very high, and the game itself is a remarkable showcase for the FOX Engine.

Yes, it's a prologue, but it's also a big surprise. Metal Gear shows its evolution with Ground Zeroes, a little, but a high quality experience.

Ground Zeroes is the perfect opening for a much richer experience that Phantom Pain promises to offer. Ground Zeroes is intense, philosophical, dark, brutal, but full of hope at the same time.

Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes, the PC version, is wonderfully optimized. But the game is really short.

Ground Zeroes is a technically competent PC version of an entertaining, but unsatisfyingly short commercial demo level for the upcoming Phantom Pain, which leaves you wanting the whole thing. [Feb 2015]

MGS V: Ground Zeroes is not a large game, but it offers very pleasant (few) hours of fun to the stealth-action and techno-thriller admirers. Most of the PC gamers will be "lost in translation" with the story but nevertheless this game is still worth to try.

As a prequel/demo for Metal Gear Solid V, Ground Zeroes is a pretty valuable product, finally sold at the right price.

The PC version is technically perfect and it finally has the right price.

While it may only take an hour or so to complete the main mission that acts as the prologue to the next game, the PC port of Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes not only lives up to expectations, but surpasses them in creating an overly satisfying sandbox to sneak through.

Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes has brought its short, but sweet, experience to the PC in this brilliant port.

Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes is a short, but mechanically very sound, sandbox stealth appetiser for The Phantom Pain. Just be aware that its value is in experimentation and replaying scenarios, rather than lasting narrative.

It’s a wonderfully crafted experience that looks and sounds fantastic. There’s been a lot of love given to this “demo” in ensuring it feels right at home next to the others in the franchise.

Aside from its problematic ending, Ground Zeroes mostly represents a new, more sophisticated era for Metal Gear, particularly given its attention to what matters on PC.

On the visual side, apart from some minor bugs and the lack of some graphics options that we would have expected, the result has fully convinced us. The Fox Engine is an excellent graphics engine that requires no ultra PC to be enjoyed at its best.

It’s more a playable Demo than a full-flavored game. Gameplay itself offers much stealth-variety and a fantastic atmosphere with great graphics and sound. The replay-value is nice and let the player try various playstyles. It’s a good appetizer for upcoming Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain. Menus and are not optimized for pc, gamepad is recommended.

Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes PC didn't face a day one like Assassin's Creed Unity and other recent (and problematic) AAA games. The game is fluid, well optimized and free from serious bugs and glitches and, more importantly, does not require a super PC to be played in full HD with ultra details.

I would recommend Ground Zeroes without hesitation were it not for the extremely short playing time.