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

Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater retains the suggestive and sexual content from Metal Gear Solid 3, including the controversial Peep Demo Theatre, according to an age rating issued by the ESRB.

While developer Konami has not officially confirmed the retention of this content, the U.S. classification board, the ESRB, has rated the stealth action game as Mature 17+. This rating is attributed not only to the game's realistic gunfire, cries of pain, and bloody combat but also to the "suggestive/sexual content."

The ESRB's detailed description of the game highlights its realistic combat and violence, 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."

Furthermore, the ESRB elaborates on the game's suggestive/sexual elements: "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 featuring Eva in her underwear. This feature becomes available 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 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." The preview reflects on the inclusion of a new first-person perspective for Snake, 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.