40 Fun Facts About Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes

Camp Omega, the American black site in MGSV: Ground Zeroes, stands on which country's soil?

Cuba hosts the fictional Camp Omega, a former refugee camp whose old prison sits beyond the reach of the United States Constitution.

Which real-life game director plays a spy awaiting rescue in a Ground Zeroes bonus mission?

Hideo Kojima cast himself as the stranded agent, repeating a cameo he made in Peace Walker. The player covers his escape from a helicopter.

Kiefer Sutherland, who voices Snake in Ground Zeroes, is best known for playing which TV agent?

Jack Bauer won Sutherland an Emmy, and for Ground Zeroes the actor supplied Snake's facial motion capture as well as the voice.

Critics liked the mechanics and graphics of MGSV: Ground Zeroes but mostly faulted which aspect?

Its short length was the sticking point: the core story mission can be finished very quickly, and one review called the game a cash grab.

Which commander interrogates Paz at Camp Omega and is the main villain of Ground Zeroes?

Skull Face stays on as the main antagonist of The Phantom Pain, and he claims to have forgotten his own native language.

During the helicopter escape in Ground Zeroes, what is found surgically implanted inside Paz?

A bomb is cut out by a medic in mid-flight, but a second device goes off after Paz throws herself from the helicopter to save the others.

Which guest character from another Metal Gear game is playable in the Jamais Vu mission of Ground Zeroes?

Raiden hunts machines disguised as human soldiers in the mission, which was at first exclusive to the Xbox versions of the game.

Which publisher released MGSV: Ground Zeroes and later removed its director's name from the cover?

Konami stripped the credit from later releases in 2015 as it parted ways with the series creator, whose final Metal Gear was The Phantom Pain.

Which scouting tool did MGSV: Ground Zeroes move from the item menu to its own dedicated button?

Binoculars became the main way to scout Camp Omega, and reviewers noted that they stood in for the radar and on-screen indicators of earlier games.

The helicopter crash that ends Ground Zeroes leaves Big Boss in what condition for nine years?

A coma keeps him out of action until 1984, when he wakes in a hospital in Cyprus at the start of The Phantom Pain.

What is the name of Snake's offshore headquarters, destroyed at the end of Ground Zeroes?

Mother Base is the home players built up across Peace Walker, and the director meant its loss to give them their own motive for revenge.

Which long-time English voice of Snake was replaced by a Hollywood actor for Ground Zeroes?

David Hayter had voiced Snake since 1998 and also wrote the first X-Men film. He said he was never asked to return for Metal Gear Solid V.

MGSV: Ground Zeroes reached four consoles in March 2014; which platform got it nine months later?

Windows players got the game through Steam in December 2014, and the PC release ended up with the highest review average of any version.

Nine years after Ground Zeroes, which new mercenary group takes the place of the destroyed MSF?

Diamond Dogs is founded on an offshore platform near the Seychelles, and its soldiers go after the people who wiped out their old comrades.

Which handheld device shows Snake a holographic map of marked enemies in Ground Zeroes?

The iDroid also came as a companion app for iOS and Android, letting players keep the in-game map open on a real smartphone.

Which in-house technology, first used commercially in a football game, powers MGSV: Ground Zeroes?

Fox Engine takes its name from a fictional military unit in the series, and its first commercial release was Pro Evolution Soccer 2014.

What are the four extra Camp Omega missions unlocked after the main story of Ground Zeroes called?

Side Ops take place at different times of day and include hunting a sniper team, meeting an informant and sabotaging anti-aircraft guns.

Which former child soldier is captured after trying to rescue Paz alone before Ground Zeroes begins?

Chico is the younger brother of rebel commander Amanda, and in Peace Walker he was the one who briefed Snake on its Monster Hunter missions.

MGSV: Ground Zeroes continues the story of Peace Walker, a game first made for which handheld?

Sony PSP owners got Peace Walker in 2010, a year before it was remastered for home consoles in the Metal Gear Solid HD Collection.

Which folk singer performs "Here's to You", the song in the opening of MGSV: Ground Zeroes?

Joan Baez wrote the words to Ennio Morricone's music for a 1971 film about Sacco and Vanzetti, and a cover of the song closed Metal Gear Solid 4.

In Ground Zeroes, which new feature gives Snake a brief chance to silence a guard who spots him?

Reflex Mode arrived as the game dropped the on-screen alert gauge of earlier entries in favor of subtler visual and audio cues.

Which covert strike force destroys Snake's headquarters at the end of Ground Zeroes?

XOF began as a support network for Snake's old unit before going rogue, and its soldiers remove every identifying marking in Ground Zeroes.

Which deputy of Snake is on the Japanese cover of Ground Zeroes but missing from the Western one?

Kazuhira Miller was dropped by Western marketers who feared buyers would not recognize him, since Peace Walker had sold poorly on its handheld.

The unnamed medic who shields Big Boss in Ground Zeroes becomes which hero of The Phantom Pain?

Venom Snake is rebuilt through plastic surgery and hypnotherapy into a body double, drawing enemies away while the real Big Boss works in secret.

Paz, rescued by Snake in Ground Zeroes, was exposed in Peace Walker as an agent of which group?

Cipher is the secret organization that later becomes the Patriots, and under its orders Paz once tried to launch a nuclear warhead at the East Coast.

In Peace Walker, the prequel to Ground Zeroes, Snake investigates an army occupying which country?

Costa Rica cannot push the occupying force out in the story because its constitution does not allow an official military.

Ground Zeroes was the first Metal Gear game to carry subtitles in which language?

Arabic subtitles were a feature the team had planned for earlier Metal Gear games but only delivered here, as the director revealed in January 2013.

The director of MGSV: Ground Zeroes compared the game to which part of a Hollywood movie?

The pre-title sequence was his model, because Ground Zeroes exists to build up the plot of The Phantom Pain before the main feature begins.

In the post-credits scene of Ground Zeroes, Paz is pressed for the whereabouts of which leader?

Major Zero is the overarching antagonist of the series, and Paz is pressed for his location because she had once met him in person.

Which scientist arranges a United Nations inspection against Snake's wishes in Ground Zeroes?

Huey is the father of Hal Emmerich, and the visit he arranged proved to be a ruse that let the attackers strike Snake's forces.

One prisoner at Camp Omega in Ground Zeroes is a former child soldier of which rebel movement?

Sandinistas fight alongside Snake in Peace Walker, where he enlists the Nicaraguan rebels to help him track a nuclear shipment.

Which nuclear-armed mech does Snake's army hide underwater before the inspection in Ground Zeroes?

ZEKE is the bipedal machine that players build in Peace Walker from parts and AI boards salvaged from defeated boss vehicles.

Which Metal Gear character designer drew the box art for the Ground Zeroes premium edition?

Yoji Shinkawa hand-drew the box, which also held a Snake action figure, and he went on to design the characters of Death Stranding.

Which Japanese magazine gave MGSV: Ground Zeroes a near-perfect review score of 38 out of 40?

Famitsu was far kinder than some Western outlets: Polygon scored the same game 5.5 out of 10 and Electronic Gaming Monthly gave it 5.

The Jamais Vu mission of Ground Zeroes pays homage to which earlier cyberpunk adventure game?

Snatcher came from the same director in 1988, and its humanoid robots that kill and replace people inspired the mission's disguised machines.

What is the call sign of the helicopter that extracts Snake from Camp Omega in Ground Zeroes?

Morpho One later spins out of control and collides with a pursuing helicopter, the crash that brings the story to its close.

The sideways lens flares of MGSV: Ground Zeroes were inspired by music videos from which idol group?

AKB48 videos influenced part of the director's visual style, the publisher confirmed, and the flares double as a warning that a threat is near.

Which Japanese actor kept voicing Snake in Ground Zeroes while the English role was recast?

Akio Ōtsuka was unaffected by the English recasting and is also known in Japan as the voice of Jigen in Lupin III.

Which bundle packages Ground Zeroes with The Phantom Pain and all their add-on content?

Definitive Experience arrived in October 2016 and lets players start The Phantom Pain immediately after finishing the Ground Zeroes main mission.

Which spin-off, set between Ground Zeroes and The Phantom Pain, was announced at Gamescom 2016?

Survive was developed after the series creator left the publisher, which had begun recruiting new staff for the series in 2015.