The upcoming Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater retains the suggestive and sexual content from Metal Gear Solid 3, including the infamous Peep Demo Theatre, as indicated by its age rating. Although developer Konami has not officially confirmed the retention of this controversial content, the U.S. classification board, the ESRB, has rated the stealth action game as Mature 17+. This rating is attributed to the game's realistic gunfire, cries of pain, bloody combat, and the inclusion of "suggestive/sexual content."
The ESRB's detailed report highlights the game's realistic depiction of violence and blood, citing scenes such as a restrained character being beaten and electrocuted, a character shot in the eye, and another character engulfed in flames being shot multiple times. Additionally, the ESRB notes the presence of suggestive/sexual content, including a man groping a woman's breasts, close-up camera angles of deep cleavage, a character briefly groping a man's crotch, and the Peep Demo Theatre. This feature, an unlockable extra from the Subsistance and HD Collection versions of the original Metal Gear Solid 3, allows players to view cutscenes of a female character, Eva, in her underwear from a first-person perspective. To unlock it, players must complete the game four times.
Konami has officially announced that Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater will be released on August 28. Accompanying this announcement was a new teaser trailer, which also revealed that the Snake vs. Monkey minigame is making a comeback.
In our Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater preview, IGN described the game as "more like a very shiny HD remaster than the elegant remake it could have been," noting its "admittedly beautiful nostalgia trip, but almost faithful to a fault." This perspective comes with the introduction of a new first-person perspective for Snake. The original Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater received an impressive score of 9.6 from us.
