Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater retains the suggestive and sexual content from Metal Gear Solid 3, including the Peep Demo Theatre, as confirmed by an age rating. Although developer Konami has not officially acknowledged the inclusion of this controversial content, the U.S. classification board, the ESRB, has rated the stealth action game as Mature 17+. This rating is due to the game's realistic gunfire, cries of pain, bloody combat, and "suggestive/sexual content."
The ESRB report elaborates on the game's intense combat and violence, stating: "Cutscenes depict further instances of violence/blood: a restrained character beaten and electrocuted; a character shot in the eye; a character on fire shot several times." Additionally, the ESRB details the suggestive/sexual content, mentioning: "The game contains some suggestive/sexual content: a man groping a woman's breasts; close-up camera angles of deep cleavage; a character briefly groping a man's crotch; a Peep Demo Theatre allowing players to view cutscenes of a female character's body from a first-person perspective."
The Peep Demo Theatre is a notable feature from the Subsistence and HD Collection versions of the original Metal Gear Solid 3, which allows players to control the camera and zoom in on Eva during a cutscene where she appears in her underwear. This feature is unlocked after completing the game four times.
Konami has officially announced that Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater will be released on August 28, and a new teaser trailer has confirmed the return of the beloved Snake vs. Monkey minigame.
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." The preview highlights the new first-person perspective and notes that while it offers a "beautiful nostalgia trip," it remains "almost faithful to a fault." The original Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater received an impressive score of 9.6 from IGN.
