{"id":61786,"date":"2014-02-05T13:06:46","date_gmt":"2014-02-05T11:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=61786"},"modified":"2014-02-05T13:17:18","modified_gmt":"2014-02-05T11:17:18","slug":"ground-zeroes-is-very-short-and-costs-a-lot-of-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/61786-ground-zeroes-is-very-short-and-costs-a-lot-of-money","title":{"rendered":"Ground Zeroes is very short and costs a lot of money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As reported by <a title=\"Game Informer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/b\/news\/archive\/2014\/02\/04\/march-cover-revealed-2014-3151321.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Game Informer<\/a> (via <a title=\"Kotaku\" href=\"http:\/\/kotaku.com\/metal-gear-solid-ground-zeroes-is-short-really-short-1516004297\" target=\"_blank\">Kotaku<\/a>) Hideo Kojima and Konami&#8217;s Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes prequel is a mere 2 hours long (not including side missions and console exclusive content, which brings the game to around 4 hours long).<\/p>\n<p>Bear that in mind when you consider the pricing:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Xbox 360 and PS3 retail copies: <strong>R399<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Xbox 360 and PS3 digital download copies: <strong>R299<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>PlayStation 4 and Xbox One digital downloads: <strong>R399<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes is scheduled to be released in March 2014, and acts as a prequel to events in Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. The game introduces a new open-world environment to the series, along with time of day, a variety of weather conditions, AI advances, and the customary Hideo Kojima weave of story-telling.<\/p>\n<p>PlayStation platforms will receive the Deja Vu mission in which players take of the guise of classic snake, a pixellated recreation of Solid Snake from the original Metal Gear Solid game.<\/p>\n<p>Xbox platforms will receive the Jamais Vu mission, in which the Metal Gear Rising version of Raiden is playable.<\/p>\n<p>Do you think this is a fair asking price for a prequel which is ostensibly be little more than a paid demo for the full package of Metal Gear Solid V? Let us know in the comments.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">12 Minute Ground Zeroes demo<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/R0fQeiYGxrw\" height=\"338\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More MGS news<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Metal Gear Solid: The Phantom Pain and Ground Zeroes money link\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/59868-metal-gear-solid-the-phantom-pain-and-ground-zeroes-money-link.html\"><strong>Metal Gear Solid: The Phantom Pain and Ground Zeroes money link<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/57983-mgs-mass-effect-movie-projects-discussed.html\">MGS, Mass Effect movie projects discussed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/56205-gta-5-depresses-kojima-mgs-5-isnt-on-same-level.html\">GTA 5 depresses Kojima, MGS 5 isn\u2019t on same level<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/55196-metal-gear-solid-v-for-pc-in-development.html\">Metal Gear Solid 5 for PC in development<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ground Zeroes is a prequel to Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain; is it asking too much money for the package?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":59869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[11653,21,575,1269,1005,11652,8078],"class_list":["post-61786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-ground-zeroes","tag-headline","tag-hideo-kojima","tag-konami","tag-metal-gear-solid","tag-metal-ger-solid-5","tag-the-phantom-pain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61787,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61786\/revisions\/61787"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}