Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes will have load screens, day/night cycles

Maybe Snake will have health, psyche and sleep gauges now.

We already knew Hideo Kojima's next Metal Gear game, the recently announced Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes, would be an open world adventure. But we didn't know that open world will occasionally be interrupted by loading screens. Well, until today, of course, as a Eurogamer report broke the news.

Kojima told Eurogamer about the load screens just after the game's unveiling in Tokyo at a Metal Gear 25th anniversary event. The Metal Gear creator also discussed Ground Zeroes' day and night cycle, which he said would add a layer of replayability to the game due to differences in the world depending on the time of day; enemy troop patterns, for example, would be one of those differences.

And those are just two little details about Ground Zeroes, which -- aside from its reveal trailer -- we know very little about. We'll keep an eye out, of course, especially with the Tokyo Game Show getting closer and closer.

Staff article by Jonathan Davila (September 10, 2012) A bio for this contributor is currently unavailable, but check back soon to see if that changes. If you are the author of this news article, you can update your bio from the Settings page.