Kojima: The Phantom Pain much larger than Ground Zeroes

Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima has claimed that The Phantom Pain will be hundreds of times larger than upcoming Ground Zeroes.

Ground Zeroes is launching 18 March as a prologue to The Phantom Pain, and it is set to act as a bridge between previous Metal Gear games and the open world environments of the new installment.

Kojima believes that Ground Zeroes can act for a tutorial for a new era of Metal Gear Solid titles.

"GZ is both a prologue to the MGSV story and, at the same time, a tutorial for a new MGS, which transitions to sneaking simulator," he said on Twitter [via Siliconera].

"With that said, GZ has a relatively small field as compared to the main game (which is hundreds of times larger) without time zones changing in real-time.

"However, each mission offers different time zones with different play styles."