The long wait is over as Hideo Kojima's Metal Gear Solid 5 Phantom Pain is set for release on Xbox One and PS4 with the Release Date announced for early next year.

Though no official release date has been confirmed, the game will be made available across all platforms.

The game, meanwhile, earned a warm reception from gamers across the social media due to its advance details and clarity of the graphics of the game. Including the environment in the game. Check out the first few minutes of the gameplay footage below.

Konami showed a 30-minute gameplay footage of the game via IGN which shows the new graphics the game runs on and the open world feel of the new shooting game.

Watch the gameplay footage of Metal Gear Solid 5 Phantom Pain here:

The same week this gameplay footage was revealed, an official trailer of the game was unveiled as well. In the recently held Electronic Entertainment Expo 2014 (E3), the trailer for the much-anticipated game was shown.

Official trailer for Metal Gear Solid 5 Phantom Pain here:

Though many people are impressed with the next generation graphics of the new Kojima game, MGS creator Hideo Kojima was still unimpressed after seeing what Rockstar did to its Grand Theft Auto franchise for the PS4 and other next gen consoles.

"It's a bit different because Rockstar is going in a very different direction to what I'm trying to create," Kojima said in an interview. "When we say we're an open-world game it makes it sound like it's trying to be the same as what those guys are creating. But this is very different - I'm trying to do a free infiltration game.

"What Rockstar has created and the world they have created is super impressive, and actually when I saw the PS4 version a few days ago I got depressed again," he continued. "And this is not game design-related it's just me. The quality that they showed in the PS4 trailer was really impressive."

What do you think readers? Will this be the best MGS game yet? Sound off in the comments section below!