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Metal Gear Survive replaces stealth with survival in what is the first Metal Gear game without the involvement of director Hideo Kojima.
Although Survive is the first entry in the Metal Gear series without Kojima’s influence, it isn’t the first spin-off. Released only five years ago on the PS3, XBox 360 and PC; Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance took the Metal Gear series in a completely different direction.
Replacing stealth with hack and slash action mayhem, surprisingly, Rising worked. The reason for this was due to Kojima Productions enlisting the help of developers Platinum Games who are most famous for their 2013 hit, Vanquish.
While developing Rising, Kojima and his team were struggling to design a Metal Gear game that merges stealth with ninja action. Such were the difficulties that Kojima faced; the game ceased development in 2010. It wasn’t until Kojima gave Platinum Games free reign to re-design the project from scratch that Rising began to take shape.
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