‘Metal Gear Survive’ Latest News & Update: Hideo Kojima Blasts New Installment’s Zombies

Hideo Kojima, the mastermind behind the "Metal Gear" series and one of the main driving forces behind all the games in the franchise, recently expressed his disapproval of the direction in which Konami is taking the series, with the upcoming "Metal Gear Survive."

Standing on stage at the recently held Tokyo Game show 2016, Kojima was speaking about some new details in his planned brand new title "Death Stranding." During the presentation, Kojima took some time to speak out on the new elements coming into the "Metal Gear" series with "Metal Gear Survive."

IGN reported that one of the audience members in attendance asked Kojima if the central idea for "Metal Gear Survive" came from him. Kojima departed Konami early last year, due to reasons still unspecified, with the "Metal Gear" franchise remaining with Konami as the company still owns the intellectual property.

"That's nothing to do with me," Kojima said of the notion that the idea for "Metal Gear Survive" came from him. Kojima then went on to say that the games in the "Metal Gear" franchise are about "political fiction and espionage," themes that have long been central into the prior installments in the series, and asked "where do zombies fit in that?"

"Metal Gear Survived" will tell the story of the soldiers left behind at Mother Base at the end of "Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes," the prologue game of the two-part "Metal Gear Solid V." The upcoming game will feature multiplayer-oriented gameplay, placing players in to the boots of the soldiers who were transported to another world inhabited by feral crystalline creatures reminiscent of zombies.

A longer and more defined response from Kojima was reported by Siliconera, noting posts from the official Kojima Productions Twitter account. Kojima reiterated the absence of any involvement from him with regards to the production of "Metal Gear Survive, joking on the apparent strangeness of a "Metal Gear" game possibly lacking the series' titular machines.