Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain Launch Trailer Released

Konami has released a launch trailer for Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain.

The Phantom Pain is the final entry in the Metal Gear Solid series, or at least the last with creator Hideo Kojima at the helm. As such, Kojima himself directs and edits the trailer, which takes a trip down memory lane, showing highlights from past games in the series, all the way back to the 1998 original Metal Gear Solid.

Of course, the trailer also shows some truly grand action from The Phantom Pain itself, with Snake taking on a massive Metal Gear. Check it out below.

In Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain,the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan has brought a new edge to the Cold War, and in 1984, a one-eyed man with a prosthetic arm appears in the country. Those who know him call him Snake; the legendary mercenary who was once swept from the stage of history and left in a coma by American private intelligence network Cipher. Snake is accompanied by Ocelot, an old friend who saved him from attack when he finally awoke.

Now, Snake's former partner Kazuhira Miller is being held by the Soviet forces in Afghanistan. Snake must undertake a solo mission to rescue Miller and prove to the world that the legendary mercenary is not dead and gone. That first step will lead to a path of vengeance against the very Cipher that slaughtered so many of Snake's men, and to a battle that will embroil the whole world...

What started in Ground Zeroes must finish with "V."

Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain releases Sept. 1.