IDW’s Metal Gear Solid board game was cancelled back in 2021 after a number of delays, and on the time it appeared like that was that. However no! This week it has been introduced that the sport is again, solely now it’s going to be revealed by rivals CMON as an alternative.
It’s just about the identical recreation with the identical designer—Emerson Matsuuchi—about the one factor that appears to have modified is the corporate identify on the field, the field artwork itself and the truth that it’s truly popping out now.
Metallic Gear Strong: The Board Recreation is pitched precisely as you’d count on: it’s a turn-based tactical stealth recreation, the place gamers work collectively to sneak round ranges, taking down unhealthy guys, hiding our bodies and, sure, transferring round inside a cardboard field.
In Metallic Gear Strong: The Board Recreation, gamers tackle the position of iconic characters from the online game, like Strong Snake, Meryl Silverburgh, Grey Fox, and Hal “Otacon” Emmerich, and work collectively to finish Missions and defeat the Bosses.
Every character has distinctive gameplay traits and provides one thing completely different to the crew:
Snake is concentrated on stealth takedowns, Meryl can disguise herself and move by Patrols unnoticed, Grey Fox begins the sport together with his signature weapons like his Excessive-Frequency Blade, and Otacon has a singular Hack deck out there solely to him.
With distinctive expertise, passive skills, and quite a lot of acquainted actions, corresponding to knocking on partitions to attract the eye of enemies or stealth takedowns, every participant can have a particular and immersive expertise enjoying with the completely different characters.
There are six standalone missions gamers can work by way of, or if you happen to’ve received the time there’s additionally a 14-mission narrative marketing campaign to play. Lovers of plastic minis ought to know that, alongside miniatures for smaller, human characters there’s additionally an infinite Metallic Gear Rex as effectively.
The sport will be ordered instantly from CMON for $100, with an anticipated ship date of Might 2024. Later copies of the sport gained’t embrace the Metallic Gear Rex, or a “absolutely illustrated 109-page graphic novel illustrated by Kenneth Loh, bringing every Mission of the marketing campaign to life”.
