Metal Gear Solid 5: Ground Zeroes is out now and offers a small taste of the full experience that The Phantom Pain will offer. There hasn’t been any new updates from director Hideo Kojima on the game aside from slight snippets on themes, cutscenes and bosses. Now it seems that Kojima is hyping something for tomorrow, which could be a new trailer for The Phantom Pain. He also posted the above live-action image, which resembles the iDROID case releasing for the iPhone in Japan later this year courtesy of Sentinel.

Posting on Twitter, Kojima stated that, “I’ve come up with new ideas for the trailer at the gym. I’ll try them out tomorrow.”

He also added that, “On Tomorrow’s Kojima Station there will be an important announcement. At the same time, I will introduce the ‘Prisoners’ video corner that will be released on May 3rd. In addition, the new corner (video) will involve planning, lighting, shooting, editing and sound recording made by ourselves.”

Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain is in development for Xbox One, Xbox 360, PS3 and PS4. It is rumoured to be released in early 2015.

Metal Gear Solid 5: Ground Zeroes has receive a bunch of pre-order incentives, with Konami announcing that you’ll receive bonus staff for the Mother Base. Though the Mother Base recruitment and base building mechanic is actually contained within The Phantom Pain, the incentives received here will automatically be available in the second game.

So any staff and POWs rescued in Ground Zeroes will be available to the Base in The Phantom Pain. Other bonus items have yet to be revealed, but it’s been implied that rescuing certain staff will affect your status in The Phantom Pain. The content will automatically open for those who pick up the Digital Edition when TPP releases.

As for iDroid app, new details reveal that it will act as a second screen to showcase the world map and allow you to call in air support besides playing cassettes collected and viewing leaderboards. It will also allow for a standalone game within which you can build Mother Base. The iDroid app will be available for iOS, Android and Windows Phone 8.

Metal Gear Solid 5: Ground Zeroes releases on March 18th in North America and March 20th in Europe for Xbox One, Xbox 360, PS3 and PS4.

After the recent Metal Gear Solid 5: Ground Zeroes boot camp at Nasu, many new details have been revealed about the so-called prologue from Kojima Productions.

Hobby Consoles, a Spanish gaming publication, had some new information from the same boot camp. With regards to health regeneration, it will only recover a slight portion, with the majority of your health needing a healing spray for full treatment. The iDroid app was also discussed and it will allow you to view places where other players have been detected on the map. In terms of gameplay length, there’s about 8-10 hours of play time though apparently, Kojima Productions’ best player managed to spend +100 hours trying to discover everything.

The visuals have also been described as “simply spectacular”, especially the facial animation. You’ll see footprints left in the mud, which guards can use to spot you, and sentries will have better field of vision, random routes for patrolling and search lights to make the game tougher for you.

Metal Gear Solid 5: Ground Zeroes releases on March 18th for North America and March 20th for Europe on Xbox One, Xbox 360, PS3 and PS4. Stay tune for more details as we approach launch.

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