At the start of September, Metal Gear Solid V: Phantom Pain has been released, the newest installment in the Metal Gear series. This series has been made by the Japanese game developer Hideo Kojima for almost thirty years, in cooperation with distributor Konami. A total of 40 million games have been sold in this series, and Phantom Pain is one of the highest rated installments of them all.

Chronologically, this open world game is set eight years before the events of Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes, its predecessor. The background of this series is the battle between the "Skulls", an evil collective, and the "Diamond Dogs", an organization which fights for the good of the world. Next to this, there is fear for the super weapon "Metal Gear", which can fire nuclear weapons.

Because there have been twenty games already in this series, it's hard to summarize the story, because of its complexity. In any case, Phantom Pain players are satisfied: 89% of the Steam reviews are positive. Furthermore the game has a score of 93 on Metacritic. This makes it one of the best scoring games in the Metal Gear series.