METAL GEAR SOLID V: THE PHANTOM PAIN

Based on the 6,768 most recent Steam reviews · updated 2 Oct 2026

• English reviews: 5,000, 20 Jun 2025 – 2 Oct 2026
• Russian reviews: 1,768, 11 Mar 2025 – 1 Oct 2026

• ▲ Recommended

  9.1 h at review53 h total

  16 Apr 2026

  Теперь я понимаю, почему все называют этот стелс-экшен гениальным, но при этом незаконченным шедевром. Ты играешь за Биг Босса, который после девяти лет комы приходит в себя и начинает строить свою военную базу «Аутхевен», чтобы отомстить тем, кто уничтожил его старую организацию. В отличие от прошлых частей, тут открытый мир, и ты можешь подходить к заданиям как угодно: залететь на вертолёте, подкрасться сзади, вызвать артиллерию или даже натравить на врагов дикого медведя. Главная фишка - это система товарищей, особенно твоя собака по кличке Ди-Дог, которая метит врагов, приносит оружие и просто лапами вырубает солдат, когда ты сидишь в кустах и угараешь. Строительство базы тоже затягивает: нужно вербовать солдат, разрабатывать новое оружие и отправлять отряды на задания, чтобы добывать ресурсы. Но при всём этом игра страдает от повторяющихся миссий во второй половине и сюжета, который явно не допилили, оставив кучу вопросов без ответов. Плюс управление на клавиатуре и мыши не очень удобное, постоянно путаешься, где какая кнопка для бинокля или вызова поддержки. Тем не менее, когда ты врываешься на базу под песню «The Final Countdown» из найденной кассеты и вырубаешь всех врагов невидимкой, чувствуешь себя настоящим спецназовцем. В общем, если вы любите стелс-экшены и готовы простить игре незаконченность за свободу действий и кучу фана, берите на скидке, а для тех, кто ждёт сюжет как в MGS3, будет разочарование. Лично я наиграл уже 9 часов и не планирую останавливаться, потому что даже простой рейд на вражеский аванпост каждый раз приносит новые приключения. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails?id=3379097390 И если этот обзор наберёт 50 лайков и 10 наград - куплю все дополнения и сыграю 100 часов. Улучшу значок до 5 уровня и схожу в церковь помолиться за разрабов, чтобы они делали только крутые проекты… https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails?id=3357787986 ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠋⠉⠉⠙⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⢿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠀⠀⣠⣶⣶⣶⣦⣄⠀⠘⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⢰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡄⠀⢹⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⢸⠟⠻⢿⡿⠟⠻⡇⠀⠘⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⡟⠀⠀⠈⠦⣴⡎⢱⣤⠔⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣷⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⠿⠟⠃⠀⠀⠀⢀⣿⣿⠀ ⣿⣿⡿⠛⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⠻⣿ ⠀ ⣿⣿⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠹⣿⠀ ⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢿⣿ ⣿⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠸⣿ ⣏⣠⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣹ ⣿⣿⣷⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣄⣠⣤⣤⣴⣶⣦⣤⣴⣦

  Show more

  21 found helpful

  Gameplay

  Story

  Value

  Games owned: 2,739 · Reviews written: 3,186

  On Steam
• ▼ Not recommended

  24 h at review77 h total

  25 Aug 2026

  This would have been a tricky game to review normally, some parts are extremely well designed while other aspects are obviously unfinished or padded out to a ridiculous extent. That said, it became a lot easier to review about 10 hours in when I realized that the constant mobile game level of time and grind walled content was there to sell you on real money transactions. A singleplayer game where Konami engages in extremely scummy anti consumer behaviour by making the singleplayer campaign much more tedious, time consuming and grindy than it otherwise would be...unless you pay them more money! Mobile game level grinds, time walls, pay walls in a full priced AAA game means an automatic negative review. Hopefully Konami avoids this kind of thing in the future but I doubt it given their reputation.

  Show more

  20 found helpful · 3 found funny

  Value

  Reviews written: 49

  On Steam
• ▲ Recommended

  70 h at review70 h total

  27 Mar 2026

  War Crimes, Cassette Tapes, and the Greatest Stealth Sandbox Ever Built for a Man Having the Worst Midlife Crisis on Earth 1984: Snake Wakes Up and Immediately Makes It Everyone Else’s Problem METAL GEAR SOLID V: THE PHANTOM PAIN kicks off with a hospital escape so deranged it feels like someone filmed a fever dream with military funding. Then it drops you into 1984 as Venom Snake, loose in Afghanistan and Central Africa, chasing revenge, rescuing Miller, rebuilding an army, and generally behaving like therapy has failed on an international scale. It’s officially sold as “tactical espionage operations,” which is accurate, but not quite accurate enough. This is tactical espionage operations if tactical espionage operations also included horse poop, child soldiers, cassette tapes, and a helicopter that arrives like it’s billing overtime. Fox Engine Still Looks Like Black Magic in Combat Boots This game still looks filthy in the best possible way. Not just “good for its age.” I mean properly, obnoxiously good. Sunlight bouncing off sand, floodlights cutting through dark outposts, rain slapping across metal, faces half-lit in the chopper, all of it still has that expensive, clinical shine that makes a lot of newer games look like they were assembled out of damp cereal. It’s not trying to be pretty in a fairytale sense. It wants to look like dust, steel, blood, and bad intentions. Mission accomplished, you magnificent bastard. Did I mention it's disgustingly well-optimized as well? The Soundtrack Has Taste, the Helicopter Has an Ego, and Both Are Right The audio in this thing is absurdly sharp. Every suppressed shot has that nasty little cough to it, every alarm feels like your luck just got audited, and the helicopter may as well be a supporting character by the end. Then there’s the music. The licensed tracks, the synthy unease, the mission intros that make you feel ten times cooler than your actual performance deserves, it all works. MGSV understands a crucial truth: if you’re going to sneak into a Soviet base at 3 a.m., you should at least have bangers. Otherwise it’s just unpaid trespassing. Every Outpost Is a Puzzle Box and You’re Allowed to Be a Complete Freak About It This is where The Phantom Pain goes from “excellent video game” to “frankly a bit rude to the competition.” The stealth is incredible. Every mission gives you room to improvise, sabotage, scout, ghost through, tranquilize half the map, or turn the whole operation into a flaming HR incident. The open mission structure, all the tools, the buddy system, the supply drops, the weird little emergent disasters, everything clicks effortlessly. It's one of the few games where messing up is often more entertaining than succeeding cleanly. And the controls? Sharp as hell. The game trusts you to experiment, then quietly smirks while you invent some deeply unhinged tactic involving decoys, sleeping gas, and a cardboard box. A Great Story Until It Starts Leaving Pages Stuck to the Printer The story is fascinating right up until it starts feeling like it lost a fight with a chainsaw in the edit room. Early on, it’s strong stuff: revenge, identity, manipulation, trauma, all wrapped in that wonderfully self-important Metal Gear tone where everyone talks like they’re delivering classified poetry. I like that about it. I really do. But the back half stumbles. Hard. Important threads feel underfed, emotional beats get stranded, and the whole thing eventually gives off the unmistakable vibe of a masterpiece with a missing wall. Also, Quiet is a ridiculous character design. Not subtle, not clever, not “symbolic,” just Kojima looking you dead in the eye and saying, “No, seriously, she breathes through her skin,” as if we all just fell off the idiot truck yesterday. An All-Time Great Game with a Hole Blown Straight Through the Middle of It That’s the maddening part. The Phantom Pain is simultaneously one of the best stealth games ever made and one of the most frustratingly incomplete-feeling blockbusters I’ve ever played. Its moment-to-moment design is so damn good that you can forgive almost anything for a while. Then the repetition creeps in, the narrative starts wobbling, and you realize this incredible machine is running with a few organs missing. Even so, the highs are ridiculous. Mother Base building is weirdly addictive, the freedom is intoxicating, and the game keeps producing those perfect little “♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, did I just pull that off?” moments that most open-world games would kill for. So yes, it’s flawed. Very flawed. It also absolutely wipes the floor with most games that are technically more “complete” but have the charisma of office carpeting. Verdict Graphics: 9.5/10 Still makes military dirt look expensive. Sound: 9/10 Rotor blades, tape hiss, and mission music doing criminally good work. Gameplay: 10/10 An elite stealth sandbox that lets you play like a genius, an idiot, or both at once. Story: 7/10 Brilliant in stretches, then suddenly held together with duct tape and denial. Overall: 8.9/10 METAL GEAR SOLID V: THE PHANTOM PAIN is the kind of game that annoys me by being phenomenal. If it were merely bad, fine, easy, throw it in the bin. But no, it has to be astonishing for forty hours, occasionally transcend the genre, and then leave a giant crater where a fully satisfying ending should be. Bastard. I still love it. Not because it’s tidy, and definitely not because it wraps up neatly, but because when you’re actually in the field, sneaking through a base while a sandstorm rolls in and your helicopter is blasting 80s nonsense on the horizon, it feels untouchable. Broken in places, yes. But untouchable. And honestly, that’s a very Metal Gear way to be.

  Show more

  17 found helpful · 2 found funny

  Performance

  Graphics

  Gameplay

  Story

  Value

  Games owned: 387 · Reviews written: 37

  On Steam
• ▼ Not recommended

  60 h at review60 h total

  29 Dec 2025

  First off, I do actually like the game. Why the negative review, you might ask? Pros: - Fantastic gameplay - Great stealth - Better recon and scouting than every Ghost Recon game - Decent gunplay - Brilliant optimization Cons: - Story is convoluted garbage - Audio is abysmal - It is so very tedious to load into missions - Development is tiresome - So much visual clutter Pros Explanation: Gameplay - The gameplay is great. Snake feels.. fine, in movement, but the variation in approach and open-ended-ness of missions is amazing. Feels like Dishonored if it was a military open-world third person shooter. Stealth - The stealth is great. It's punishing, enemies adapt to your style of play over the course of the missions. For instance, killing everything head on with an LMG will lead to enemies using riot shields and heavy armor, while stealthing everything at night will give them night vision goggles and make them do everything in pairs. Recon - You can actually scout out an area. Revolutionary, right? But seriously, the amount of satisfaction you get by marking everyone with binos is unmatched. A lot better than just getting a drone out and doing it like that. You actually have to find vantage points. Gunplay - Gunplay is.. fine. Every assault rifle feels more or less the same. There are three different kinds of shotguns - pump action, semi auto, and full auto. Two different kinds of rifles - bolt action and semi auto. Lock on missile launchers and manual. Full auto pistols, manual chamber tranquilisers, the like. You can't shoot anything when driving a vehicle, though, and vehicles were already too floaty for my liking. It's fine. It's no SCP: Secret Laboratory. /s Optimisation - I played this at 1080p 60FPS on all Medium settings with Volumetric Clouds, DoF, and motion blur turned off. AMD Radeon integrated 610M and a Ryzen 5 7520U. Potato. It's really well optimised, and even has mods that make it even better by removing physics of all kinds. Cons Explanation: Story - It's ♥♥♥♥. If you're looking for a good story, go play a game that's advertised as one. Story in this one is convoluted and typical Metal Gear stories, at least for me. The two starting missions are ♥♥♥♥ and give you zero control over your character. Sure, Big Boss is weak and slow. Ishmael is not. He kind of just let's you crawl along, following him, and never helps you up. (Oooh, story reason for this, seen from a mile away). Audio - There is so much audio clutter. Every time you scan an enemy with your binoculars, some female voice says some random thing about 'Scan complete'. This happens every time, and you will be scanning them every time. There is no option to change this, which is a theme with the audio. Additionally, running makes you hear the wind whistling past you, which gets old fast. The general audio quality is awful. There are no separate volume controls for dialogue, sound effects, or music. It's like it was designed to constantly deliver excessive information with no regard for the player. The sound of Sahelanthropus walking isn't synced with it actually walking. The iDroid (your phone, basically) overlaps with mission voiceovers and radio chatter, which makes it messy and illegible(?). Not sure if that's the right word. Speaking of which, 90% of the voice acting is garbage outside of story missions. If you couldn't tell, I hate the audio in this game. It's my biggest issue with it. That, and Quiet whistling. Just shut up. Tedium - After almost every major early-game story mission, there's an unavoidable section where some idiot speaks to you in a monotone about some cool new trinket you got. It's unskippable. It encourages real-life downtime. Then, if that wasn't bad enough, before each mission actually starts you get to equip your items. That's fine. After clicking 'commence mission', you have to sit through about two minutes of waiting for your helicopter to arrive at its destination before finally letting you start. Right after that, in the early game, you realise you have no car and are a kilometer from your destination. You then cannot find a car for the rest of that mission, and if you do, you cannot keep it with you because your funny extraction device isn't upgraded enough. When you try to upgrade it, you can't, because your R&D team isn't upgraded enough. You find some people to join it and extract them, but you run out of your extremely limited early game supply of them and have to wait until your current mission is completed before getting more. It's just unnecessary tedium that encourages real-world downtime just for the sake of you playing the game a bit longer. The iDroid menus stall, the helicopter rides stall (there's one at the end too, if you choose to extract that way), everything stalls. Why? To 'pace you' or something. It's just tedium. Even restarting the mission just restarts the helicopter ride, too. That covers the 'tiresome development' part, too. Visual clutter - there is so much. Every time you come across a dumpster, there's a marker telling you to pause and read a tooltip. It's not just dumpsters. It's also every placed object in the world. See a cassete tape? Tutorial. Take out a sniper rifle? Here's how to zoom in. Can't turn any of it off, and it all lasts for about ten seconds before it decays. Way too much. Even for the dumpsters and things like snipers spotting you, there's a tooltip. Even some ♥♥♥♥♥♥ on the radio comes and tells you about them every time. The game gives you an intel button, but shoves things in your face when you don't use it. That is not good game design. There is an overabundance of floating markers on every tiny little thing, and you can't turn it off (as far as I know). There's one over enemies' heads - that's fine. Over vehicles, yeah, okay. Over a mortar you're never going to use. Bit annoying. Over every single machine gun, every anti-air cannon, everything. That gets tiring fast. Environmental visual effects compete with the UI. Color saturation remains high. You want a full nohud playthrough? You still have stealth cues and objective markers that for some reason are under Gameplay, not Display. Still seeing button prompts? Deal with it. I would recommend playing this game with the following mods: Infinite Heaven and all of its subsidiaries Audio Redux If you want to question my amount of hours compared with my feelings about this game: - I use SnakeBite Mod Manager, which seems to not count my hours in Steam. I would estimate I have about 120 or so hours in the game. - Achievements don't seem to pop. Finally: - I do like this game's core gameplay, but it hurts my ears and doesn't respect my time, and therefore isn't worth full price in my opinion. - I'm not reviewing FOB missions because I don't know it well enough to give a fair judgement. Thank you for reading!

  Show more

  12 found helpful

  Performance

  Graphics

  Gameplay

  Story

  Value

  Reviews written: 6

  On Steam
• ▲ Recommended

  146 h at review146 h total

  25 Jun 2025

  Отличная игра, берите набор по скидке за 600 рублей, можно даже если не фанат серии, можно даже если игровое выгорание, можно даже если... если чё-то еще крч, берите вообщем

  11 found helpful · 1 found funny

  Value

  Games owned: 345 · Reviews written: 14

  On Steam
• ▼ Not recommended

  41 h at review41 h total

  15 Feb 2026

  говно ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ для тупых хуесосов не рекомендую а то ваш мозг сгниет, дорого, уебки ♥♥♥♥♥, не покупайте ♥♥♥♥, прошел основную сюжетку, для даунов

  7 found helpful · 1 found funny

  Story

  Value

  Games owned: 126 · Reviews written: 26

  On Steam
• ▼ Not recommended

  5.5 h at review5.5 h total

  28 Jul 2026

  Nice job updating an 11 year old game with new DRM Screwing over customers with worse performance, broken mods and no more android compatibility. What are you all doing? I'd refund the $10 if I could.

  4 found helpful

  Value

  Games owned: 327 · Reviews written: 13

  On Steam
• ▼ Not recommended

  70 h at review70 h total

  2 Jul 2025

  Из плюсов: движок игры катсцены Из минусов: сюжет картонные персонажи гринд ресурсов гринд наёмников бессмысленный открытый мир До концовки дошло менее 20 процентов игроков, что меня не удивляет. Хотите купить - берите ТОЛЬКО по скидке, тк вторая глава выглядит быстро состряпанной и растянутой.

  4 found helpful

  Story

  Value

  Reviews written: 26

  On Steam
• ▲ Recommended

  43 h at review43 h total

  11 Aug 2026

  A physically scarred Hungarian dressed as a Pinkerton cowboy with a domino mask, spends a decade preparing a speech regarding his plans to basically give smallpox blankets to the Americans with the ironic, forced help of a Native American. He proceeds to tell this plan to the wrong person, minutes before his bipedal robot with a Reddit name is stolen by a Russian ginger twink possessed by a British kid's burning hatred. Phantom Pain is one of the few games of modern decades to have so much discussion about it. Its place in the meme-consciousness of culture perhaps has breached beyond even the original games, despite recent proliferations of its iconic sound effects making it to Tiktok and other social media networks. Phantom Pain left a phantom pain deep inside everyone. I cannot recall a single game that so deeply touched the people who played it, and not always in the most tender way, that also evoked so much discussion and analysis. I played the game on launch and remember pre-loading it the night prior, waking up just in time to start where Ground Zeroes had left off. This game came out during a profoundly sad time in my life, among the darkest, if not the absolute darkest. Witcher 3 of the same era, may have saved my life, but Phantom Pain held it hostage and fundamentally changed me as a person in a deeper way. Phantom Pain is not the greatest game of all time, but its very easily the greatest stealth game of all time and honestly, certainly one of the best Metal Gear Solid games, despite being so dissonant to the franchise at the same time. By all means, the mechanics were done better in Peace Walker and Peace Walker itself, is a far more truthful conclusion to the arcs and thesis of MGS3. Phantom Pain is something more and something less at the same time, a game that is surely unfinished due to Konami losing patience with its obnoxiously expensive and lengthy development and the unhinged nature of Kojima's vision, and ironically... the game has far more charm as a result. I dare say that it is the only game that in its current state, perhaps is more iconic because of it, rather than in detriment to it. While it is deeply sad that, truthfully, the linear missions are some of the best in the franchise and the presentation of many of the cinematics are some of the greatest renderings in any game ever... what the game does *wrong* alongside what it does right, somehow complements it so much better. For years, I thought this was cope and that truly, the trailers for the game and all of its hints and personal editing and music choice by Kojima himself was better than Phantom Pain itself... But I have had enough time away to know the truth, the full truth. And despite it being one of the more vague and at times, strangest MGS games (only because Kojima does not return to his trademark tradition of intense, mandatory exposition via cutscenes and codec calls are replaced with somewhat optional, Peace Walker-style cassette tapes that are essential to comprehending the full story) this unique character carries the game to a surreal plane of existence that so few games can even begin to occupy. This game truly busted my balls sometimes, there were times I was absolutely having the worst time of my life until I grinded some side ops, got better equipment and more GMP, and suddenly, overnight, fell in love with every mechanic all over again ("Like A Virgin", Madonna style. The pain in the beginning was a mandatory hymen to overcome) despite the fact the difficulty curve-♥♥♥♥ did not always hit my cervix in the right way. With the exception of some intense late game missions in the epilogue content, mid to late game really is one of the most empowering experiences. You truly come to the title of Big Boss on your own, in many ways and I was honestly impressed with the skills I cultivated, alongside my weaponry and equipment, bonds with the buddies and deeper utilization of the support mechanics and how they came together in a synergy that was exciting yet calm, collected and familiar. When you develop the skillset to match your confidence, it truly becomes a game of uncontested greatness. While a large departure from previous narrative structures, I actually argue that Phantom Pain is some of Kojima's absolute best work. Some of the character beats and the presentation of the stellar cutscenes, have become completely and utterly iconic, outliving the game itself in some ways. The FOX Engine is a spectacle that, despite its age, performs and controls better than most games having released this year. A decade later and seeing the individual muscle group flexing and altering to Venom's struggling movements in the hospital introduction, absolutely blows me away. And the way equipment sounds, the way the fabric moves... all of these things are common stays now in unreal slop games and yet, there is something so much more artistic in the FOX engine. I know for a fact, that this game drastically changed the trajectory of some of my friend's lives and some of the consequences of that have lead to IRL character arcs worthy of their own books. It is safe to say, that I am one of those people touched by the tragedy of this game and its characters too. Also, having read Moby ♥♥♥♥ twice in multiple languages, Kojima really nails the parallels well. It is amusing that Kojima arguably has some of the most nuanced and intelligent writing of Soviet individuals in almost any piece of mainstream media, completely removed from all bias. Two Soviets guards discussed the novel "1984" and discussed healthy critique and praise of it in equal measure, all while expelling that they themselves are not hardline communists but cannot help but think that the humanist, liberal views of westerners and their socialist reformers or capitalist progressives could hardly build a better 'utopia'. Long gone is the liberal romantic Kojima who saw a possible world of co-existence between the spheres of super powers and a healthy fascination with third-worldism. The Kojima of Phantom Pain is one that understands the harsh reality of the real politik of the world and the Cold War. One that is not necessarily nihilistic, but aware that all conflicts and their state backers and non-state actors are subject to spheres and systems of powers and influence far beyond their comprehension or ability to genuinely resist or reform it. Kojima brings us to the darkest place in any game in this contemporary setting, investing the player in a world of espionage, tactics and unconventional war, but also the devilish phantoms of extremist factions and the neo-colonial spirit of unrestrained, free market military industrial complexes. And at the same time, it is a game where the shrapnel in your head grows longer to show how much of an ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ you or and you can train a dog to kill people with a knife, while dressing it up in elite stealth gear. You can even deck your horse out with armour. Its great. Quiet was a contentious addition that received less than stellar feedback from some select fans, among the same who moaned about the vocal chord parasites and the now infamous twist of the game. On this playthrough, I was really reminded that Kojima managed to write a better female character, who only has a handful of lines and no clothes, better than most of his peers ever could. Quiet's arc is definitely worth the investment in bonding with her and some of the ♥♥♥♥ she does is incredibly cool, making her one of the all time best female characters in the series, which is saying a lot when MGS has by far, some of the best ladies in any game franchise ever. A game you will never forget, like a lost limb, pulsing in pain in its phantom outline... that still stands proud, despite its missing legs.

  Show more

  3 found helpful

  Gameplay

  Story

  Value

  Games owned: 702 · Reviews written: 264

  On Steam
• ▼ Not recommended

  0.2 h at review0.2 h total

  27 Jun 2026

  Used to play this at stable 60fps no problems all high settings, finally decided to buy it only to find out game has stutters and stuck at 3fps on character creation, my only suspicion is the drm, gonna refund soon

  3 found helpful

  Performance

  Value

  Reviews written: 4

  On Steam
• ▲ Recommended

  145 h at review145 h total

  17 Dec 2025

  METAL GEAR SOLID V: The Phantom Pain — игра сложная, противоречивая и во многом незавершённая. Но при этом — одна из самых сильных и уникальных работ Кодзимы. Это тот редкий случай, когда проект одновременно раздражает, восхищает и надолго остаётся в голове. Начать стоит с геймплея, потому что именно он здесь — абсолютная вершина. Phantom Pain — это, без преувеличения, лучшая стелс-песочница из когда-либо созданных. Практически каждая миссия представляет собой огромную зону, где игрока никто и ничто не ограничивает в выборе подхода. Хотите — проходите ночью, тихо, усыпляя врагов, пряча тела и не поднимая тревогу. Хотите — действуйте агрессивнее, устраивая диверсии, взрывы и открытые столкновения. А можно комбинировать всё сразу, меняя стиль прямо по ходу задания. Подготовка к миссии — половина успеха. Вы сами выбираете точку высадки, время суток, снаряжение, оружие и поддержку. И это не формальность: правильно подобранный арсенал действительно меняет ощущение от прохождения. Игра постоянно поощряет эксперименты и почти никогда не говорит «не так». Арсенал Снейка огромен и развивается вместе с игроком. Новое оружие, гаджеты и улучшения — это не просто рост характеристик, а открытие новых возможностей. Меняется сам подход к миссиям, появляются альтернативные решения и тактические варианты. Отдельного упоминания заслуживает протез руки: он модульный, вариативный и по-настоящему полезный. Это не трюк ради галочки, а полноценный инструмент, который часто становится ключевым элементом стелса или боя. Mother Base — один из важнейших элементов Phantom Pain. Это не просто хаб, а живая система, напрямую связанная с геймплеем. Вы вербуете солдат с помощью системы эвакуации, распределяете их по подразделениям, развиваете исследования, улучшаете снаряжение и открываете новые возможности. Здесь прокачка ощущается не цифрами, а последствиями. Улучшили исследовательский отдел — получили новое оружие. Усилили боевое подразделение — выросла эффективность поддержки. Развили охрану базы — защитились от вторжений других игроков. Всё взаимосвязано и логично. Постепенно возникает важное ощущение: вы больше не герой-одиночка. Вы — командир. У вас есть армия, есть DD, есть ответственность за людей, которых вы набрали и развили. Diamond Dogs ощущаются не абстрактным ресурсом, а результатом ваших решений и действий. И именно в этот момент игра делает один из самых кодзимовских ходов. Внешний вид Снейка меняется по ходу прохождения в зависимости от вашего стиля игры. Если действовать аккуратно, избегать лишних жертв и использовать нелетальные методы, перед вами остаётся почти обычный человек. Но если начать убивать, устраивать резню и решать проблемы силой, Снейк постепенно превращается в «демона»: меняется лицо, появляется рог, образ становится всё более мрачным. Игра никак это не комментирует. Нет шкалы морали, нет уведомлений, нет наказаний или бонусов. Она просто молча фиксирует последствия. Это не система кармы — это отражение игрока. Тонкое и сильное решение, которое связывает геймплей и историю куда крепче любых кат-сцен. Сюжет Phantom Pain подан фрагментарно и намеренно рвано. Большая его часть раскрывается через аудиозаписи, намёки и недосказанность. История не ведёт за руку, а требует внимания и желания вникать. Темы войны, контроля, языка, личности и потери подаются не напрямую, а через ощущения и контекст. Отдельного внимания заслуживает Веном Снейк. Его роль в истории — ключевая, но раскрывается она постепенно и не всегда очевидно. Это персонаж, через которого игра говорит об идентичности, самообмане и цене легенды. И чем дальше продвигаешься, тем яснее становится, что Phantom Pain — это история не столько о герое, сколько о его тени. При всех достоинствах нельзя не отметить главную проблему игры — её незавершённость. Повторы миссий, ощущение обрыва ближе к финалу и явно недостающий третий акт никуда не делись. Это чувствуется и может разочаровать, особенно если ждать классического сюжетного катарсиса. Открытый мир также может показаться пустым. Но со временем начинаешь воспринимать это как часть атмосферы: одиночество, рутина войны, повтор одних и тех же действий работают на общее настроение Phantom Pain. В итоге METAL GEAR SOLID V: The Phantom Pain — это не лучшая часть серии с точки зрения сюжета, но, возможно, лучшая с точки зрения геймплея. Игра, которая даёт невероятную свободу, доверяет игроку и позволяет самому стать частью её идей. Это проект, который не стремится понравиться всем. Но если вы готовы принять его таким, какой он есть — с пустотой, недосказанностью и гениальными механиками — он легко затянет на десятки, а то и сотни часов.

  Show more

  3 found helpful · 3 found funny

  Gameplay

  Story

  Value

  Games owned: 938 · Reviews written: 299

  On Steam
• ▲ Recommended

  32 h at review103 h total

  10 Jul 2025

  awesome game. Hate the fact that deployment costs don't get refunded if you don't use the items after exiting the AOO. I had a lot of fun getting really cool new items, and it felt like the game encouraged me to try out new gear that I spend money and time and resource unlocking, but really the way you play is by getting the 1st star tranq gun, 1st star silenced auto rifle and maybe a tranq or silenced rifle if you're feeling ambitious. Also remember that fulton recovery can be put back to 1 star and reduces a lot of costs

  3 found helpful

  Value

  Reviews written: 57

  On Steam
• ▲ Recommended

  60 h at review61 h total

  21 Sept 2026

  «I won't see you end as ashes. You're all diamonds...» Наиграл 60 часов и прошел игру полностью. Постараюсь без спойлеров объяснить, почему в неё стоит поиграть и давним фанатам серии, и обычным новичкам, которые вообще ничего не знают про Metal Gear. Плюсы: Полная свобода действий. Игра вообще не ставит тебе рамок и дает кучу крутых штук. Хочешь — ползай на пузе по траве, изучай маршруты солдат в бинокль и проходи миссию вообще без шума и пыли. Хочешь — заказывай тяжелый костюм, вызывай боевой вертолет под попсу 80-х и взрывай всё к чертям. Любой, даже самый безумный подход здесь отлично работает. Сюжет, лор и связь с Граунд Зерос. Для новичков это просто крепкий, мрачный военный триллер, где все ролики сняты очень красиво, как в кино. А для фанатов — важнейший мостик в истории, который заставляет вспомнить весь ад из прошлых событий и то, как мы потеряли старую базу. Игра отлично показывает, как Биг Босс постепенно ломается и превращается в того самого главного злодея из первых частей серии. Strike Force XOF, Cipher и Череп. Разборки между организациями заслуживают отдельного упоминания. Тайная ударная группа Strike Force XOF, которая изначально была боевым крылом Cipher, под руководством Черепа превращается в жуткую карательную силу. Чего только стоит та самая долгая, безумно кинематографичная поездка в машине, когда вы сидите вдвоем под тяжелый саундтрек, а Череп толкает свой мощный монолог о философии, Cipher и мести. Поразительно, но даже после краха его планов память о нем и действиях его отряда буквально отпечатывается на самой Главной базе, напоминая бойцам о цене их войны. Противостояние организаций и Ударная группа. Разборки между твоей ЧВК и таинственным Cipher ощущаются очень масштабно. При этом ты сам управляешь своей армией: развиваешь собственную Ударную группу и отправляешь бойцов на автономные задания по всему миру. Они воюют где-то за кадром и привозят горы чертежей и валюты, пока ты штурмуешь базы в Афганистане или Африке. Очень умные враги. Солдаты на базах запоминают, как ты играешь, и подстраиваются под твою тактику. Если ты постоянно стреляешь им в головы — они начинают носить каски. Если нападаешь только ночью — патрулям выдают приборы ночного видения. Начинаешь закидывать их усыпляющим газом — они надевают противогазы. Из-за этого приходится постоянно придумывать что-то новое. Игра пойдет на любом чайнике. Оптимизация тут просто божественная. Игра выдает стабильные кадры и идет идеально плавно даже на слабеньких компьютерах и старых ноутбуках. Музыка и кассеты. Кассеты, которые Снейк находит на вражеских базах, — это отдельный кайф. Слушать реальные хиты 1980-х во время заданий или изучать сюжетные записи, пока летишь в вертолете, очень круто и создает отличную атмосферу. Минусы: Пустая карта между базами. Мир Афганистана и Африки огромный, но делать на дорогах особо нечего. Вся жизнь и интересные ситуации есть только на самих военных объектах и блокпостах. Кататься между ними на лошади или машине быстро надоедает. Онлайн недоступен в РФ. В нашем регионе сетевые сервера баз ФОБ сейчас отключены, поэтому мультиплеерные функции и онлайн-ивенты не работают. Приходится играть сугубо в одиночном режиме. Итог: Даже несмотря на то, что ближе к финалу игра меняет темп, это всё равно никак не портит общее впечатление. Вторая половина играется отлично, а 43-я миссия — это вообще один из самых сильных, тяжелых и эмоциональных моментов, что я видел в видеоиграх. Сцена в карантинной зоне, где тебе приходится принимать страшные решения под салют от собственных преданных солдат, пробивает на слезу любого. Ради этого финала точно стоило пройти весь этот 60-часовой путь. Это монументальный стелс-экшен с потрясающей механикой, аналогов которому до сих пор нет. Рекомендую однозначно.

  Show more

  2 found helpful

  Performance

  Gameplay

  Story

  Value

  Games owned: 138 · Reviews written: 6

  On Steam
• ▲ Recommended

  203 h at review208 h total

  28 Feb 2026

  This game is without a doubt the apex of the action stealth genre and nothing even comes close. MGSV has always been one of my favourite games, and I am heavily biased towards this game. Unlike many others I really enjoyed the story in this game and the accompanying gameplay that this game provides only adds to the spectacle. People who critique the story or dog on it for being the "weakest story entry in the series" may or may not be correct, but it doesn't in any capacity detract from this game whatsoever. The gameplay of MGSV is borderline perfect, there is absolutely nothing like it, the only things like it are derived from it. The controls are responsive & snappy, Boss moves as you would expect him to and in quick fashion with little restriction to how fast or slow you can play the game. The game being an open-world makes it by far the least linear entry in the series and it provides the player with freedom unlike any other game to explore alternate paths, do side-quests, bonus objectives etc. It's open ended to the point where the game could become trivial with even half-decent gameplay, but that's where it excels the most. This game has the advantage of player expression and it does it in spades, whatever you did to clear an outpost someone did in dozens of other ways, straightforward or elaborate, and that's why it's so good. The choices the game provides to the player, while not the most plentiful nowadays, were designed in such a way where the limitation seems non-existent. This game's controls were so good to the point that one of the most popular multiplayer games ripped off the controls & movement of this game (Helldivers 2). The absolutely ginormous variety of weaponry & equipment at your disposal, along with attachments for said weapons, even if they look ridiculous, add so much to the feeling of the game once you're deployed. You can make the absolute perfect rifle, shotgun, any loadout you need for any specific niche you need to fill. The level design in this game for an early-open world game is as you'd expect, a bit empty. There's no two ways about it, this game is akin to Far Cry (Drive) 2, a lot of the map is just a big open desert with some convoys going back and forth, however outposts and mission areas are designed very well, to the point where I kind of wish that the game had more facilities, industrial areas like MGS2, or urban areas like MGS4. The game is by far at it's peak in these areas, where there's loads of buildings, cover, guards everywhere and less terrain to abuse without any hit to the gameplay. I think the only thing that would've completed the package in totality is more scripted events ala Ground Zeroes with the truck being board-able to ride into a facility and similar things like that to abuse and play around with. Overall, the boring parts of the map travelling can be solved with the cardboard box transport thing, which can teleport you between points of interest whilst keeping immersion. The aesthetic of this game is just awesome, whilst the PMC that Boss runs is a bit unrealistic, the aesthetic of it certainly isn't. It really captivates you in that 80s environment, whilst still keeping true to the sci-fi aspects of MGS that it's known for, with more advanced technology being seen as prototypes, etc. I absolutely love and eat up the aesthetic of this game, and with some mods it can make the kind of goofy uniforms of the Diamond Dogs seem genuinely legit, and I feel like this game could've excelled in showing off a more caggy, yet still conforming to the sci-fi feel of MGS without any detraction from it. Personal preference aside, the building of the PMC and it's growth is far more organic and convincing than it was in Peace Walker, and is a significant improvement from it in every single way, from the narrative to the characters and their build-ups, everything. Even your soldiers have some secrets they talk about whilst on the platforms, there isn't a single other game that displays such a unique competency in making a military leader setting genuinely feel real. The story of this game is a point of controversy and it requires a detailed look to fully grasp it, although it's not roll-slop levels of garbage, where the story doesn't exist, and is told through """""environmental storytelling""""". The story can easily be grasped in a single play-through without any sort of guidance or pointers in regards to the direction of the story, and since it starts relatively early in the timeline, some prior knowledge may not even be necessary to start playing the game to be invested. The game still leaves secrets and unanswered questions, whether that's on purpose, or because the story was rushed because of tension between the lead developer and Konami, I couldn't answer it better than anyone else could. Ultimately it is my favourite, even if it is a point of contention. Everything surrounding the story displays it in such a fashion where, despite it's flaws, like not using real-world names for weaponry and locations as MGS was known for, which detracts a good amount from the immersion, still somehow speaks to me the most. All personal of course, it's just the most memorable story to me by far, perhaps because of the controversies, conspiracy theories, or because of it being an enjoyable and amazing narrative idea. The game, in general, excels in everything it does, and I have no complaints. The content of the game is plentiful, there is much to explore, unlock and experiment with, with tons of main story missions and an enormous amount of side content, MGSV on it's own is a game packed full of content. However, there are still some critiques of this game I must add: Quiet. probably the worst MGS character ever conceived. Only exists for goonbait (along with the posters). Everything related to her in the story could've been sidestepped completely and told in a different way, or simply plays out and the game tries to tie relevance to her. When the story hits you with a 4D chess move, you answer back, and the game is already placing down a new chessboard to play on. Quiet is annoying to play with, annoying in the story, unnecessary and generally just garbage. Fictionalised naming schemes, guns, vehicles, etc. Everything in the game represents a fictionalised equivalent of an already existing thing. For example the famous Stinger anti-air missile launcher is represented as the "Honey Bee" and bears a very odd resemblance to it. There aren't any Sikorsky H-60's, instead in their steed is the "UTH-66 Blackfoot", to name a few examples. Some of the guns also just look horrendous and ugly, like the """AK's""" that this game has. Trash DLC + microtransactions, is this really still necessary?! For a full price game too, you might as well be offering an extra "rip off my customer" button below your game's purchasing options. The game has a very well designed online base-raiding / defending system in which you can buy extra platforms to get more resources. What do these extra platforms cost? "MB coins", which are basically the gem equivalent of any other mobile game. They offer you 2000 for ten euros, seriously, who is buying this? The outfit DLCs I can understand, maybe. But they are unnecessary, add them as rewards, not as stupid paid-for garbage. The final con? Probably the last good MGS game that will exist.

  Show more

  2 found helpful · 1 found funny

  Gameplay

  Story

  Value

  Games owned: 117 · Reviews written: 12

  On Steam
• ▲ Recommended

  49 h at review77 h total

  15 Oct 2025

  MGS 5 стало для меня открытием в игровом мире , сюжет интересный захватывающий геймплей вообще супер интересный когда играешь ощущаешь себя биг боссом весь этот стелс то самое испытание самого себя когда выбиваешь FOXHOUND или пройти все миссии на S ранг . Вообщем рекомендую всем если кого жаба душит брать за фулл прайс игра часто бывает на скидках. P.S (я хотел взять ро скидке но все же взял за фулл , и не пожелел)

  2 found helpful

  Gameplay

  Story

  Value

  Games owned: 74 · Reviews written: 9

  On Steam
• ▲ Recommended

  160 h at review169 h total

  12 Sept 2025

  Игра недоделпна шо пипец, но всё-же она очень хороша (Особенно за свою цену) и подойдёт как знакомство с этой замечательной серией

  2 found helpful

  Value

  Games owned: 63 · Reviews written: 6

  On Steam
• ▲ Recommended

  67 h at review80 h total

  18 Sept 2026

  got 100+ hours on this on console, still a blast to play over 10 years later. There is the issue of the game not really being finished, ie Episode 51 being cut from the game, though the "unfinished" state of the game is greatly exaggerated. This is the best metal gear gameplay wise (in my humble opinion) Worth the money and on sale pretty often, you wont regret it.

  1 found helpful

  Gameplay

  Value

  Reviews written: 10

  On Steam
• ▲ Recommended

  15 h at review81 h total

  23 Jul 2026

  *My gear is SOLID* I have played Metro Exodus and GTA, but compared to the game engine of MGSV, it pales in efficiency. My laptop can run this in medium quality using iGPU, thats how optimized it is. Gameplay wise there is plenty to go about and you will not get tired of the options. Story slowly opens up new gameplay components allowing a fairly small learning curve. Lot of secrets and base management to work with when you are not in the field. I got this at a discount, but I will now recommend this even with full price. 10/10

  1 found helpful

  Performance

  Gameplay

  Story

  Value

  Reviews written: 11

  On Steam
• ▲ Recommended

  14 h at review26 h total

  5 Jul 2026

  "I'm afraid it's been... nine years." METAL GEAR SOLID V: THE PHANTOM PAIN has been a great experience for me. First thoughts were that the game would absolutely be a blast, and, while it blew the roof out of my expectation's house, the game is quite quirky with its bosses. This game is basically just another MGS except with better stealth mechanics and insanely weird (yet great at the same time!). Campaign Haven't completely finished the campaign yet, so I'll follow up on that by editing this review when I finish the story, but this campaign is absolutely great. I love silently taking down my enemies because it's just the best thing to do with them (kicking them and pointing a gun at them as they wake up so they surrender, just to Fulton extract them)! It's also very sandbox-like but not quite, as the fighting area is incredibly massive. Graphics & Mechanics The graphics are just like any other AAA game, I don't really know what you'd expect. The stealth mechanics, however, are on another level entirely, as camos work great to hide yourself and blend in with the environment, while shadows literally give you away. This game will keep you on your toes, and if that's what you like, then I heavily recommend playing this. Can't forget the memetic engineering! This game is just ripe for memes, as, with the new Duran Duran soundtrack, anyone can make banger edits of Snake and other characters. This game has so much potential, and Konami decided to put it to waste by firing Kojima while he worked on the game. Conclusion I think this game will definitely be great for you to play. Might be a little expensive for some of you, but you can always just wait for a sale so it goes a little cheaper. Overall, this game is completely one of the best games I've ever played in my life, and I'd put it next to the Half-Life series. See ya!

  Show more

  1 found helpful

  Graphics

  Gameplay

  Story

  Value

  Games owned: 68 · Reviews written: 11

  On Steam
• ▲ Recommended

  156 h at review156 h total

  4 Jul 2026

  Bought this game on PS3, PS4 and now PC. 100% each time, worth every penny.

  1 found helpful

  Value

  Games owned: 343 · Reviews written: 7

  On Steam