Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater Includes 'Suggestive and Sexual' Content From Original MGS3, Rating Suggests

The much-anticipated Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater retains the suggestive and sexual content from its predecessor, Metal Gear Solid 3, including the infamous Peep Demo Theatre, as confirmed by the ESRB rating. The Entertainment Software Rating Board has categorized the stealth action game as Mature 17+ 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 report specifies: "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 notes the presence of suggestive/sexual content, stating: "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 control the camera around Eva during a cutscene where she appears 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 was released, confirming the return of the beloved Snake vs. Monkey minigame.

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 reflects on the game's new first-person perspective. The original Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater received an impressive rating of 9.6 from IGN.