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

The highly anticipated Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater retains the suggestive and sexual content from Metal Gear Solid 3, including the notorious Peep Demo Theatre, as confirmed by an ESRB age rating. While developer Konami has not officially acknowledged the inclusion of this controversial content, the game has been rated Mature 17+ by the ESRB due to its realistic gunfire, cries of pain, bloody combat, and "suggestive/sexual content."

The ESRB rating provides detailed insights into the game's 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." Furthermore, the ESRB highlights the game's "suggestive/sexual content," noting: "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 Subsistance and HD Collection versions of the original Metal Gear Solid 3, allows players to control the camera and zoom in on Eva during a specific cutscene. 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. Alongside this announcement, a new teaser trailer revealed that the Snake vs. Monkey minigame will also return in this version of the game.

In our Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater preview, IGN remarked, "Metal Gear Solid Delta seems more like a very shiny HD remaster than the elegant remake it could have been. It’s an admittedly beautiful nostalgia trip, but almost faithful to a fault." This perspective aligns with the game's new first-person perspective, which adds a fresh layer to the gameplay. The original Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater received an impressive rating of 9.6 from IGN, setting a high bar for its Delta counterpart.