The highly anticipated Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater retains the suggestive and sexual content from Metal Gear Solid 3, including the controversial Peep Demo Theatre, as confirmed by its age rating. Although developer Konami has not officially confirmed the retention of this content, the U.S. classification board, the ESRB, has given the stealth action game a Mature 17+ rating. This rating is attributed to the game's realistic gunfire, cries of pain, bloody combat, and "suggestive/sexual content."
The ESRB's detailed report on the game also highlights its realistic 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 notes, "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, an unlockable feature in the Subsistence and HD Collection versions of the original Metal Gear Solid 3, allows players to control the camera and zoom in during a cutscene where Eva appears in her underwear. This feature becomes available after playing through the game four times.
Konami has confirmed that Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater will be released on August 28, accompanied by a new teaser trailer that also revealed the return of the 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," noting its beautiful nostalgia but critiquing its faithfulness to the original. The preview also mentions the introduction of a new first-person perspective. The original Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater received an impressive rating of 9.6 from IGN.
