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. While 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 "suggestive/sexual content."
The ESRB's detailed report on the game 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 report notes the presence of suggestive/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 found in the Subsistence and HD Collection versions of the original Metal Gear Solid 3, allows players to move the camera and zoom in on Eva during a cutscene where she 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. A new teaser trailer also revealed that the Snake vs. Monkey minigame will be 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," reflecting on the inclusion of a new first-person perspective. While it's considered "an admittedly beautiful nostalgia trip, almost faithful to a fault," the original Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater received an impressive 9.6 rating from us.
