IDW’s Metallic Gear Strong board sport was cancelled again in 2021 after quite a few 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 printed by rivals CMON as a substitute.
It’s just about the identical sport with the identical designer—Emerson Matsuuchi—about the one factor that appears to have modified is the corporate title on the field, the field artwork itself and the truth that it’s really popping out now.
Metallic Gear Strong: The Board Sport is pitched precisely as you’d anticipate: it’s a turn-based tactical stealth sport, the place gamers work collectively to sneak round ranges, taking down unhealthy guys, hiding our bodies and, sure, shifting round inside a cardboard field.
In Metallic Gear Strong: The Board Sport, gamers tackle the function 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 totally different to the staff:
Snake is targeted on stealth takedowns, Meryl can disguise herself and cross 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 accessible solely to him.
With distinctive abilities, passive talents, and quite a lot of acquainted actions, comparable to knocking on partitions to attract the eye of enemies or stealth takedowns, every participant may have a particular and immersive expertise enjoying with the totally different characters.
There are six standalone missions gamers can work by means of, or if you happen to’ve acquired 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 unlimited Metallic Gear Rex as properly.
The sport will be ordered instantly from CMON for $100, with an anticipated ship date of Might 2024. Later copies of the sport received’t embrace the Metallic Gear Rex, or a “totally illustrated 109-page graphic novel illustrated by Kenneth Loh, bringing every Mission of the marketing campaign to life”.
