The highly anticipated Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater retains the suggestive and sexual content from the original Metal Gear Solid 3, including the infamous Peep Demo Theatre, as confirmed by an age rating. Although developer Konami has not officially acknowledged the retention of this controversial feature, the U.S. classification board, the ESRB, has assigned the game a Mature 17+ rating due to its realistic gunfire, cries of pain, bloody combat, and "suggestive/sexual content."
The ESRB's detailed report on the game's content not only covers the realistic combat and violence but also mentions specific scenes: "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 elaborates on the 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 from the Subsistance and HD Collection versions of the original Metal Gear Solid 3, allows players to manipulate the camera around and zoom in on Eva during a particular cutscene where she appears in her underwear. This feature becomes available after completing the game four times.
Konami has confirmed that Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater will launch on August 28. A new teaser trailer not only announced the release date but also revealed that the beloved Snake vs. Monkey minigame will be making a return.
In a 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 highlighted the game's new first-person perspective, calling it "an admittedly beautiful nostalgia trip, but almost faithful to a fault." The original Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater received an impressive score of 9.6 from IGN.
