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Ground 'Zero'es?

With little over two months until the much trumpeted return of the Metal Gear Franchise in the form of a prologue game to Metal Gear Solid Five (“The Phantom Pain”) GroundZeroes is awaited with baited breath.   I for one am looking forward to purchase, hopefully on a new PS4.   Yet, the more I look at this, the more perplexed I become. It feels like the Tanker Chapter from MGS2.   An incomplete story, which will leave MGS fans waiting (for another year?) for the concluding part.   It won’t be a full packaged game – I surmise this for several reasons. Firstly, I’ve noticed some retailers placing the game at a pre-order price of around £25 for the PS4.   £25?   Most eagle-eyed people know PS4 games never come in as cheap as that.   Seems like there won’t be a lot of content to this, so in fairness, perhaps the price is right.   Initially the game was going to be sold as DLC on the PS4 – but this has changed (so no meltdown on the PSN site on March 20 th – good move!) due to de