Despite being dismissed as an extended demo for Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, Ground Zeroes has a ridiculously high amount of replay-ability, evident by the game's sales of over 600,000, and it's about to get even more extensive as of May 1, because that's when Ground Zeroes gets a delectable amount of new content courtesy of an update.
The new update will unlock and allow all users to access the "Déjà vu" and "Jamais Vu" missions, originally PlayStation exclusives. The "Déjà vu" mission, often referred to as a "throwback" mission, is based on missions from the original Metal Gear Solid game from the first generation PlayStation. As such, users play as every bit of the triangular, pixelated, low polygon Solid Snake we all fell in love with, save for the voice. To progress in the mission, players must recreate the key scenes, and will be rewarded with flashbacks to the previous game. Sort of a "coming full circle" if you will, but nothing new for gamers who've already played Ground Zeroes on PlayStation.
"Jamais Vu", the Xbox platform exclusive mission, references the 1988 game Snatcher, Kojima's heavily "Blade Runner" inspired take on cyberpunk. The missions sees Snatcher's titular menacing bioroids dropped into Camp Omega to kill and steal the identities of everything they come in contact with. While Big Boss every bit the legendary solider, even he isn't prepared for this. Enter Raiden, and not the effeminate, cartwheeling pansy from Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, I'm talking the plastic chinned, ginzu-slicing, superhuman, ninja cyborg, and breakdancing badass from Metal Gear Sold 4: Guns of the Patriots, and Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance.
This time around, Raiden dispenses with his High-Frequency Blade in favor of heavy weaponry to completely annihilate the "Snatcher" threat, Rambo style.
The missions drop on all platforms, Xbox One and 360, and PlayStation 3 and 4, when the update hits on May 1. Check out our review of Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes here.
