Unlike other games that sport the open-world title, Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain isn't about laying a single, sprawling map in front of players and letting them go wherever they wish.
The Metal Gear Solid games span across decades, though not in chronological order. This should clear the timeline up.
After the release of Metal Gear Solid 4 in 2008, Konami wanted to ease their development process for future games. They ...