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Scott McCrae

Metal Gear Solid 5 finally cements itself as Peace Walker 2 as a co-op mod brings back the PSP game's best feature

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Less than a month away from its 10-year anniversary, Metal Gear Solid fans have modded co-op into The Phantom Pain.

Metal Gear Solid – outside of the Metal Gear Online expansions – is pretty firmly a single-player game. But the series took a turn into becoming a Monster Hunter game with Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker where it changed into a mission-based formula and the base-building mechanic created a lore-reason for co-op to be integrated into the series. Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain is effectively Peace Walker 2, but never brought back the co-op, leaving one of Peace Walker's best features in the dirt.

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