One of the first things you will need to do is hunt animals and collect water to make sure your character stays hydrated and healthy. When you finally make it to base camp with your own customised character things get very confusing! There is a mass of systems and menus to navigate and get your head around. Coming up against a few of them can very easily lead to your characters death if you are not careful and correctly equipped. Stealth is the easiest option against them as they can’t see you very easily and if you manage to sneak up from behind it can lead to a one hit kill. The Wanderers are slow and will approach any figures they see or noises they hear, once close enough and your seen as a target they will attack. Wanderers are slow but in a group can be deadly

Your character is infected and if you don’t find the antidote fast enough your character will share the same fate. The story-line takes place just after the attack on the mother base from Metal Gear Solid V Ground Zero, players will even get a brief glimspe of Snake himself but then things like infections, wormholes and parallel universes take over the main story.Īfter the initial cutscenes showing your characters initial death and telling the story behind what’s happened, your character will have to take on the games main enemy ‘the wanderers’ these are slow human looking beings that have a crystal looking shaped head. Metal Gear Survive still uses the same third person viewpoint to play from as well as holding onto some of Metal Gears stealth but the main parts of this game are now survival and base building! Survive features the great visuals that other Metal Gears had but sadly that’s the only real positive the games share! Metal Gear Survive is a strange game, in all honesty Konami could have made it into it’s own series and noone would have noticed but sadly they seem to have used the legendary game franchise to help sell their latest game. Metal Gear Survive is not what anyone would expect from a Metal Gear game but does that mean it’s a new and great step in the right direction or has it fell flat on it’s face.

Tested on Xbox One X for the purpose of this review

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