Asian online retailer giant PlayAsia have added fuel to the fire. Rumours that the cryptic announcement of The Phantom Pain at 2012’s Spike VGAs was actually an announcement for a long awaited yet still unofficial Metal Gear Solid 5 have been running thick, and it looks like retailers have taken it upon themselves to annoy the crap out of us.

PlayAsia has listed Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain on its website. Two pages have been created for the (supposed) game, with the page for the US version of the game mentioning that its title is “tentative”, but the Japan page not mentioning any such thing.

It should also be noted that the Japan page mentions From Software, of all things, as the developer of the game, while the US page just mentions Konami. Kojima has agreed to outsource Revengeance to Platinum Games, but I don’t think he’d outsource a title as major as MGS5 to another developer, especially one that doesn’t seem to have much experience with games that focus on cinematic storytelling as much as Metal Gear Solid does, so this seems to be a long shot.

Take it with a pinch of salt, but I’m guessing you’d have done that without us having to tell you anyway.

However, it should be noted that there is a huge possibility that this is, after all a Metal Gear Solid game. Could it be viral marketing for Ground Zeroes? Seems to much trouble to go through, right? Could it be the inevitable Metal Gear Solid V? We did a complete analysis of the trailer, and it was full of MGS references  Read our analysis here.

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This is really weird as we have an alternate version of the same Phantom Pain trailer that was shown at the VGAs, as it contains a different music but the entire content is same.

The music makes the whole thing a bit scary compared to the first trailer, but overall we can’t really see any differences between the two. The trailer titled as phantom pain is rumored to be a chapter in the Metal Gear Solid 5 game, and could possibly also turn out to be a new game.

Nothing is clear yet since Kojima has been sending cryptic messages, we will know next year though, if Konami decides to release the game. The trailer has some voice overs too, and we are not certain whether Konami or Kojima will be releasing another trailer, but Kojima gives a lot of hints on Twitter regarding this.

Check out the trailer below. If you find any hints that we should know about let us know in the comments section below.

Either way, the wait begins again.

Metal Gear Solid has been making it’s fair of waves, with Ground Zeroes being unveiled at the 25th Anniversary event for Metal Gear and the recent Phantom Pain trailer showcased at this year’s Spike Video Game Awards. Many fans have reported finding several hints to Metal Gear Solid within the new trailer, and the rumour rags are running dry with news of what it might actually be.

Check out the trailer for Phantom Pain below.

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One interesting thing that has been revealed by the developers is that Phantom Pain is running on current generation specs, that is the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. All footage is shown running in real-time on hardware equivalent to current generation consoles (PS3 & XBOX360), the website states.

They have also released the trailer in full 1080P which you can check out below. The funny thing is that the the official YouTube channel for Phantom Pain is Joakim Mogren. This is a bit odd since normally game developers/publishers name their channels based on the company’s name or the game’s title. Looks like Hideo Kojima is trolling again.

The website also has a disclaimer that they are currently not operating through any social media outlets. Moby Dick Studio and our representatives does not currently operate through any social medias such as Facebook or Twitter, except for YOUTUBE.

Check out the screens and the video (1080P) below. Also do not forget to read our full analysis of the trailer here. Some cool little secrets are revealed.

Let us know your thoughts in the comments section below.

After digging deep in to the trailer, we present you a few interesting findings. Check them out below:

The trailer resembles the level featuring the Sorrow  from MGS3:

Remember the Sorrow from Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater? When Big Boss was making his way through that spooky level, he could see all the people he had killed before. In this case he saw Volgin, Raikov and the Boss’s horse but this time he’s under the influence of a character that has a striking resemblance to Psycho Mantis. In the past, Mantis burned his own village and has psychic powers of psychokinesis and telepathy. So in reality this might all be a bad dream or some sort of a hallucination created by Mantis.

Coincidentally Big Boss is in a similar state in Phantom Pain as well.

The burning Unicorn is the Boss’s horse:

In the trailer you see a burning Unicorn. This is an obvious reference to the Boss’s horse. In Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker, the Boss’s horse was injured from a fall. Big Boss then euthanized the horse with his gun.

A British Flag?

The trailer clearly has a British Flag in it. Looks like this particular level is taking place in UK.

Also the vehicle being driven has a steering wheel on the right side which further points that this incident occurred in the UK. One can easily see medical pills in the van and most likely they escaped the incident at the hospital but their van crashed. Major Zero, the main villain of the Metal Gear franchise is also British by origin.

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is a novel by Herman Melville

The Japanese voice actor for Big Boss/Solid Snake, Akio Ōtsuka also voiced Ahab Ishmael in Hakugei: Legend of the Moby Dick. Ring any bells? Did you saw the massive whale coming out of the ground at the end of the trailer? According to Wikipedia, Hakugei: Legend of the Moby Dick used futuristic outer space as the setting, with “whales” being large abandoned spaceships instead.

Same chapters of a big MGS game?

Ground Zeroes and Phantom Pain could be the name of the chapters of a single Metal Gear Solid game. Hideo Kojima did mention at PAX this year, that Ground Zeroes is a prequel to Metal Gear Solid 5.

Further evidence that Ground Zeroes and Phantom Pain are one and the same game:

Same weapons and armour (via Neogaf).

What do you guys think? Making two Metal Gear Solid games at once does not make sense to me. In fact it is not the right way to market a franchise of such epic proportions.

Below is the trailer in case you missed it.

Let us know your thoughts in the comments section below.