IDW’s Metallic Gear Strong board sport was cancelled again in 2021 after various 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 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 identify on the field, the field artwork itself and the truth that it’s really popping out now.
Metallic Gear Strong: The Board Recreation is pitched precisely as you’d count on: it’s a turn-based tactical stealth sport, the place gamers work collectively to sneak round ranges, taking down dangerous guys, hiding our bodies and, sure, shifting round inside a cardboard field.
In Metallic Gear Strong: The Board Recreation, 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 crew:
Snake is concentrated 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 novel Hack deck out there solely to him.
With distinctive expertise, passive skills, and a wide range of acquainted actions, corresponding to knocking on partitions to attract the eye of enemies or stealth takedowns, every participant may have a particular and immersive expertise taking part in with the totally different characters.
There are six standalone missions gamers can work by means of, or for those who’ve obtained 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 may be ordered immediately 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”.
