MGS Delta: Snake Eater Retains Original's Suggestive Content, Rating Indicates

Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater retains the suggestive and sexual content found in the original Metal Gear Solid 3, including the Peep Demo Theatre, as confirmed by an age rating.

While developer Konami has not officially confirmed the inclusion of these controversial elements, the U.S. classification board, the ESRB, has given the stealth action game a Mature 17+ rating. This rating is due to its realistic depiction of gunfire, cries of pain, bloody combat, and "suggestive/sexual content."

The ESRB's detailed report highlights the game's realistic violence and combat, noting specific scenes such as: "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."

The ESRB also mentions the presence of suggestive and sexual content: "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 move the camera and zoom in during a cutscene featuring Eva in her underwear. This feature is unlocked after playing through the game four times.

Konami has announced that Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater will be released on August 28, accompanied by a new teaser trailer that also confirms the return of the Snake vs. Monkey minigame.

IGN's preview of Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater describes the game as "more like a very shiny HD remaster than the elegant remake it could have been." The review praises the game's nostalgic beauty but notes its faithfulness to the original might be to a fault. The original Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater received an impressive score of 9.6 from IGN.