'Metal Gear Solid V' Gameplay: Nuclear Disarmament Brings New Angle To The Game
Hideo Kojima, the creator of the popular "Metal Gear Solid" series, continues to inject his personal advocacy against nuclear arms as well as promoting nonlethal play in gaming even after he has left Konami. According to a report in Wired, the game "Metal Gear Solid V" recently launched a special event this past weekend which gives players of the game a very ambitious task at hand – to disarm and dispose of every nuclear weapon in the game's network.
Once this happens and no nukes can be found in the game's servers, the report says that a special narrative event will launch which will benefit all players in the network. According to the report, this special "nuclear disarmament" event was discovered several months ago and is no longer much of a secret.
The whole idea of nuclear disarmament is said to be somehow contradictory with the game's original intent. The game's title, "Metal Gear" in fact refers to a "walking tank that can trigger nuclear war." In the game's multiplayer mode, building nuclear weapons is an important strategy in order for players to protect their bases from enemy invasion. This leads to players working together to get and disarm the nukes of their enemies, while other players may even resort to keeping the nukes they seized to serve as protection.
Aside from the nuclear disarmament mission, the game has also started rewarding what it considers nonlethal play, which means players have to be like ghosts and not leave any trace or any dead bodies in their wake.
According to the Wired report, this special event is a "corrective" or "an opportunity to walk back from the ledge of nuclear annihilation."
Game developer Konami is naturally keeping track of the number of nuclear weapons left in the game's different servers across all platforms and is sharing this via the official Twitter account of the game. According to the report, the number of nukes is already going down, slowly but surely.
