Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

 Xbox 360
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  1. VideoGamerFan
    Sep 18, 2015
    10
    The best game of the series and one of the best games of all time. Excellent presentation, amazing gameplay and a great soundtrack. Pick this up if you're a fan of the stealth genre or metal gear solid. Worth every penny and more.
  2. missael
    Aug 3, 2016
    10
    Una muy buena despedida para esta consola, este y el Rise of the tomb raider fueron los últimos triple AAA que compre para la consola y en ambos casos no me equivoque, gráficamente es espectacular, a pesar de repetir misiones no se siente repetitivo debido a que te dan libertad para afrontarlas como quieras y a pesar de tener algunos problemas no empañan el conjunto.
  3. ECB19
    Feb 20, 2019
    9
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This is amazing game , and a good version for the xbox 360 .
    Some missions are really same for example when you rescue kaz miller and when you rescue kojima.
    And other exmples. But is a good game really gets entertain.
    The storyline again has a unexpected twist and contributes to the experience of the person who plays it. (I give less note that the version of ps4 because this version does not equal the framerate.)    … Expand
  4. Daniel_Ahab
    Apr 1, 2016
    10
    The holy grail of world-building games, it’s argued, is a black box that lets players do as they like with minimal handholding. Pliability with just the right measure of accountability. Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, a tactical stealth simulation wrapped in a colossal resource management puzzle inside a love letter to theatrical inscrutability, comes the closest of any game I’ve yetThe holy grail of world-building games, it’s argued, is a black box that lets players do as they like with minimal handholding. Pliability with just the right measure of accountability. Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, a tactical stealth simulation wrapped in a colossal resource management puzzle inside a love letter to theatrical inscrutability, comes the closest of any game I’ve yet played to realizing that ideal.

    That probably sounds a little backwards if you’re hip to Hideo Kojima’s long running Metal Gear Solid series, which launched in 1987 on a Japanese computer platform. We laud Kojima for his contributions to stealth gaming’s grammar, but he’s also loved and, by some, lampooned, for bouts of indulgent auteurism. A self-professed cinephile (he told me in 2014 that he tries to watch a movie a day), he’s notorious for straining attention spans with marathon film-style interludes and epic denouements. His last numbered Metal Gear Solid game, Guns of the Patriots, holds two Guinness records, one for the longest cutscene in a game (27 minutes), another for the longest cutscene sequence (71 minutes). A fan-edited compendium of the latter’s combined non-interactive sequences clocks in at upwards of nine hours.

    So it feels a little weird to declare The Phantom Pain comparably cutscene-free. Oh they’re still here, as fascinating, offbeat and abstruse as ever, but restricted to momentary exposition instead of Homeric interruption. It’s like some other mirror-verse version of Kojima helmed production, suddenly obsessed with play-driven storytelling, while most of the grim narrative about the descent of a Melvillian mercenary trickles in through cassette tapes you can listen to at leisure, or ignore completely.

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    That turnabout pays dividends. We’re instead treated to a clandestine feast of open world prowling, an unparalleled tactical toybox staged in sprawling bulwarks bristling with eerily sentient enemies. You play as Big Boss, the grizzled, cyclopean soldier of fortune we spent so much of the series reviling, traumatized and left comatose by events in last year’s prologue and prolegomena, Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes. The Phantom Pain is the revenge fantasy entrée transpiring nine years later, a grab-your-bootstraps offshore empire-building exercise and parallel slide into militaristic perdition by way of the Soviet-Afghan and Angolan (civil) wars circa 1984. It’s a Cold War paranoiac’s paradise.    … Expand
  5. Shadow1
    Apr 1, 2016
    10
    This is amazing game . Very very good storyline . Best storyline of 2015 with Dying Light and Witcher 3 . Really good graphics and very interesting mission . Many cutscenes . All Cutscenes is very awesome and interesting . Good game . 8/10 .
  6. lunas7dreamies
    Sep 28, 2015
    9
    this is an honest review by a genuine person who played the game on day 1 for the playstation 4 and then again on the xbox 360 to see how it holds up. first off its a smaller install , the game fits on 2 discs and 1 just needs installing then you play off disc 2 or you can install that aswel which means youll get faster loads times between deaths and other key instances. konami seem tothis is an honest review by a genuine person who played the game on day 1 for the playstation 4 and then again on the xbox 360 to see how it holds up. first off its a smaller install , the game fits on 2 discs and 1 just needs installing then you play off disc 2 or you can install that aswel which means youll get faster loads times between deaths and other key instances. konami seem to have been working on the last generation versions of the game for a very long time. they have used every last chunk of the consoles power to get as much as possible out of the hardware. the major difference from the ps4 version you notice right off the bat is theres no anti-aliasing or smoothing so everything seems very low resolution and everything has jagged edges. however they use a motion blur filter when theres a lot of movement during cut scenes and throughout the gameplay where they feel it necessary and this makes the images look much improved. facial detail is very high and theyve managed to optimise the frame rate on xbox 360 to almost run at a flawless 30fps with just a dip to 27-28 very rarely. (the ps3 version sometimes doesnt move off 20fps for lengthy periods)
    music and sound design is excellent with a fantastic score throughout.
    this time around the cutscenes have been cut right back for favour of a huge open world playground with vehicles, guns , horses and sheep.
    it is mostly left up to yourself to decide how you do each mission you can either stick to metal gear formula and take your time and be all stealthy or you can go in call of duty style all guns blazing.
    this is more than likely to be the last game of this standard to be released on the last gen consoles ( with the exception of rise of the tombraider, - call of duty black ops 3 doesnt count ) so it is a more than excellent end to wrap things up.
    presentation is superb the only niggle is the missions can get a little bit repetitive but no different to other sandbox games that repeat themselves. its a lot of fun and in the end the gameplays the same on all the current machines it was made for. 360 holds up well with some greater detail and effects than on the ps3 and a better frame rate. the ps4 still has the edge with its anti-aliasing, much higher resolution and better textures ( this goes without saying though )

    would of liked to give the game a 10 for its accomplishments but that would be unfair. so it gets a well deserved 9 out of 10.

    if you still have a 360 its worth picking up and it will take a long time to finish ( about 30 hours average )    … Expand
  7. TheMetacritiqer
    Dec 20, 2015
    10
    The best game since Mass Effect 3. This review must be 150 characters long and writing more won't make the game any better so I'll just say this: Boss
  8. ganzonline
    Mar 3, 2016
    8
    Gran juego, con buenas mecanicas, grandes graficos, pero muy flojo argumentalmente, en comparacion con otros juegos de la saga, no me cuenta nada para un juego que se supone es el juego final de una saga que nos ha dejado grandes titulos como Metal gear solid (PS1) o metal gear solid 2.
  9. Batgames
    May 26, 2016
    10
    Ótima jogabilidade com um mundo aberto incrível cheios de detalhes com inimigos com uma ótima inteligencia artificial com certeza Metal Gear Solid V encerra muito bem essa ótima saga.
  10. JustSomeOne1777
    Sep 5, 2016
    8
    That's a good game, but compared to the other metal gear solid games it isn't much. It's cleary unfinished, you can get bored in time. It's true that it has epic moments, awesome gameplay, excellent soundtrack, the soundtrack is pretty good and stunning graphics, with very good characters. It just mess it up with the history, there was a lot of stuff that was cut off. However, still a goodThat's a good game, but compared to the other metal gear solid games it isn't much. It's cleary unfinished, you can get bored in time. It's true that it has epic moments, awesome gameplay, excellent soundtrack, the soundtrack is pretty good and stunning graphics, with very good characters. It just mess it up with the history, there was a lot of stuff that was cut off. However, still a good game, but it was cleary unfinished and kinda boring sometimes, with not that good boss battles. That's why i'll give it a 8. I recommend if you're a metal gear fan.… Expand
  11. Brandon3D1
    Jan 8, 2019
    10
    Un gran cierre a la saga Metal Gear y aunque el final se sienta como un balde de agua fria es una forma muy inteligente de explicar como Big Boss se hizo malvado.

    En términos de gameplay es fluidisimo y divertido, explota al máximo las capacidades de un mando con la limitación de los botones dándonos el mejor Metal Gear en términos de gameplay La historia aunque un poco decepcionante    Un gran cierre a la saga Metal Gear y aunque el final se sienta como un balde de agua fria es una forma muy inteligente de explicar como Big Boss se hizo malvado.

    En términos de gameplay es fluidisimo y divertido, explota al máximo las capacidades de un mando con la limitación de los botones dándonos el mejor Metal Gear en términos de gameplay

    La historia aunque un poco decepcionante cumple su objetivo metiendonos en el papel de Big Boss y si eres un fan de la saga probablemente te haga soltar una lágrima.
    PD: es indispensable escuchar las cintas para enterarse en profundidad de la historia, hay información muy interesante que es fácil perder si no las escuchamos con atención.

    Los gráficos son maravillosos, explotando al máximo las capacidades de la Xbox 360 y aunque el framerate no es estable del todo se disfruta mucho el aspecto visual, hay ocasiones en las que la iluminación le da un aspecto muy bonito al juego. Un consejo, enciendan el motion blur, también llamado reducción de ruido del televisor para una experiencia más fluida.

    Un gran juego muy divertido con increíbles cinemáticas y una inteligencia artificial muy astuta que te pondrá un verdadero reto a la hora de infiltrarte.

    Si eres un fan de la saga o un amante de los juegos de sigilo este juego es una compra obligatoria    … Expand
  12. Vanyak
    Nov 10, 2019
    10
    The best third person shooter ever, but on xbox 360 very long downloads, for example, when you order a weapon, the game freezes for 5 seconds, it's not critical, so thanks for at least porting to an old one xbox)
  13. BigBoss3D1
    Jan 8, 2019
    10
    Un gran juego al que le he invertido mas de 150 horas de juego y aún tengo ganas de más, una buena historia con escenas cinemáticas increíblemente bien echas, muy épicas con unos gráficos demasiado buenos para ser una Xbox 360, me sorprende que la consola sea capaz de correrlo.

    Un online muy divertido y misiones FOB adictivas, todo esto lo dice un fan de Metal Gear, le doy gracias a    Un gran juego al que le he invertido mas de 150 horas de juego y aún tengo ganas de más, una buena historia con escenas cinemáticas increíblemente bien echas, muy épicas con unos gráficos demasiado buenos para ser una Xbox 360, me sorprende que la consola sea capaz de correrlo.

    Un online muy divertido y misiones FOB adictivas, todo esto lo dice un fan de Metal Gear, le doy gracias a Konami por hacer el port a old gen, gracias a eso soy capaz de disfrutar este juegazo al que he estado días jugando sin parar    … Expand
  14. GJRL
    Mar 3, 2021
    10
    This is my favorite game of all time.

    Story and gameplay are one of the best ive ever seen and i think i never will feel something as close to this when playing other games.
  15. ZhuyVz
    Mar 18, 2022
    10
    This is the game I spend lots of hours playing it!! One of my favorite games of the fanchise so far..