Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes is available now on PC. The game, a micro-slice of gameplay set in a Prisoner of War camp, offers an open environment and a number of different missions to play. It’s the prequel chapter to next year’s Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, too; if you’re intent on playing that game, you’ll want to get up to speed with events in the story before it comes out next year - whenever that might be.
You’ll need to make sure that your PC is up to running it, of course. While Ground Zeroes’ minimum requirements aren’t exactly earth-shattering, they do at least require you to have a decent mid-range graphics card in your setup. You’ll need a minimum 4 GB of RAM and 4 GB of space on your hard drive, though a minimum of a 2gb GeForce GTX 650 (or better) is listed as the entry point for Snake’s latest outing.
Here’s the full list of requirements:
Minimum:
- OS: Windows Vista SP2 x64, Windows 7 x64, Windows 8 x64 (64-bit OS Required)
- Processor: Core i5-4460 (3.20GHz) or better *Quad-Core or better
- RAM: 4 GB
- Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 (2GB) or better (DirectX 11 graphics card required)
- DirectX: Version 11
- Hard Drive: 4 GB available space
- Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card (Surround Sound 5.1)
Recommended:
- OS: Windows 7 x64, Windows 8 x64 (64-bit OS Required)
- Processor: Core i7-4790 (3.60GHz) or better *Quad-Core or better
- RAM: 4 GB
- Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 (DirectX 11 graphics card required)
- DirectX: Version 11
- Hard Drive: 4 GB available space
- Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card (Surround Sound 5.1)
Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes launched late yesterday on PC. The game released earlier this year on the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360.
Jake Haas reviewed Ground Zeroes when it came out on console earlier this year. He was rather taken with it, awarding the game an impressive 8/10, though questioning its price tag. “Ground Zeroes is a game that initially looks light on content, but which rewards diligence, exploration and experimentation,” he wrote in his Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes review. “I’m not quite sure that it justifies its price tag, but I spent my time having too much fun messing around to really care.”