"Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes" Gets First Gameplay Trailer

Konami released a full 10 minute gameplay video of Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes from PAX Prime on Saturday while also confirming details on where it fits in the series and who gamers will play as. First clue: old Snake is back. Metal Gear Solid series director Hideo Kojima announced at PAX that Ground Zeroes serves as a prologue to the yet to be released Metal Gear Solid 5. While you are wrapping your head around that, the video confirms that the old man version of Snake is back but can still sneak around at a very high level. The gameplay video demonstrates how Konami's new Fox Engine can seamlessly transition from cinematics to gameplay without being able to tell the difference. Everything you see in this video is supposed to run on both the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 but Kojima said it could scale to next-gen consoles easily.  Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes is taking a more open-world approach with the franchise and Snake will be able to call in helicopters for assistance in moving around the large sandbox areas. You'll not want to call them in at a noticeable location though as they may get shot down. No word yet on when the game will be released (sometime in 2013), but it will be for the current consoles—Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3—as well as PC.