"Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater Retains Original MGS3's Suggestive Content, Rating Indicates"

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 the game's age rating. While developer Konami has not officially stated that the controversial elements have been kept, the U.S. classification board, the ESRB, has given the stealth action game a Mature 17+ rating due to its realistic gunfire, cries of pain, bloody combat, and "suggestive/sexual content."

In addition to detailing the game's realistic combat and violence, the ESRB reports state: "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 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 is an unlockable feature found in the Subsistence and HD Collection versions of the original Metal Gear Solid 3. It allows players to move the camera around and zoom in during a cutscene where Eva appears in her underwear, unlocked by completing 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 make a return in this version.

In our Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater preview, IGN commented that the game "seems more like a very shiny HD remaster than the elegant remake it could have been." The preview reflects on Snake's new first-person perspective and states, "It’s an admittedly beautiful nostalgia trip, but almost faithful to a fault." The original Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater received an impressive rating of 9.6 from us.