Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater Reviews
It is the perfect gift for Metal Gear Solid fans, ten years after the mainline game. Despite some minor gripes specific to the PlayStation 5 integration, this game is a sign that you can, in fact, improve on perfection... if it's part of the mission.
Right, from the top. Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater came out in 2004. Its publisher, Konami, re-released it in 2006, with a free-swivelling camera a...
Recreating such a popular work correctly is a very difficult task, but its developers have managed it. Konami has made a commendable effort in recreating the third version of the Metal Gear game.
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Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater is a remake that remains faithful to Kojima’s masterful original vision while also making it look stunning and play like a modern day game.
Delta faithfully preserves Snake Eater's mechanics, story, and pacing while adding modern visuals and smoother controls. It lacks reinvention but stands as the most complete way to experience the original classic.
Metal Gear Delta - using the Greek letter that signifies change or difference in mathematics - takes the inner-core of the Snake Eater from two decades ago and acts as a new shell around it, largely superficially with some mechanical adjustments. It is a new wrapper for an old candy bar, a new doll with an extraneous new hat, a dusting of makeup before taking the stage, and despite all of those caveats, it’s still a new coat of paint for one of the most incredible gaming experiences of all time.
Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater is an extremely faithful recreation, but with modern graphics and technology. It uses Unreal Engine 5 to render environments, characters, lighting, and animations with a realism that rewrites the original experience, while keeping its soul intact (especially in terms of content, where Konami has decided to proceed with extreme caution, using the same voice acting, the same music—with only one change to the Snake Eater theme—and leaving the story completely unchanged), thus representing a respectful tribute to Kojima's work. The AI in Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater is one of the most controversial aspects of the remake. Although, as mentioned, the visuals and technical aspects have been significantly modernized, the behavior of the enemies still seems rooted in the logic of twenty years ago, with sudden changes of heart and elite soldier skills that Snake avoids, which contrasts sharply with the aesthetics and gameplay. The new additions, while respecting the structure of the 2004 version, offer greater accessibility and fluidity as well as different gameplay options that will immerse you in this exciting chapter and its atmosphere, dialogues, and epic boss fights. However, in our opinion, it remains a remake more for nostalgics than for newcomers, but if you are willing to embrace its contemplative slowness, long cutscenes, and frequent interruptions due to Codec communications, Delta will take you to a revamped jungle that is still dangerous and decidedly seductive. Although it doesn't do much to establish its own identity, overall it is as much a masterpiece as the original Snake Eater was in 2004.
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A legend is brought back to life with Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, in a surprisingly sensitive remake from Konami featuring developers from the original.
Between its old-school stealth-action gameplay and engaging spy-thriller story, Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater largely succeeds as a faithful, visually impressive remake of the 2004 classic.
A gorgeous remake of a true classic that could, and maybe should, have tried to do a tiny bit more.
After all, I love Metal Gear Solid 3 in its Metal Gear Solid Delta form just as much as I loved it when I last played it as part of the Master Collection. There's no question about it though, this cardboard box still contains the same game at its core, there's no sneaking around that.
Metal Gear Solid Delta makes the case for its existence quickly. It smartly adheres to what made the original game great with evident reverence and makes updates only to the most crucial elements.
Metal Gear Solid Delta breathes new life into Snake Eater, making the classic Cold War stealth adventure look and play better than ever.
Konami's Metal Gear Solid 3 remake is a safe but successful modernization of a beloved classic.
Overall, Metal Gear Solid Delta is a superb remake of probably the best stealth action game ever made. It’s even more impressive that this was achieved with an insane level of accuracy in a completely separate engine and toolset. I would even go so far as to say that this version supersedes the original in almost every way, and comes highly recommended to anyone who wants to crawl on their belly through a jungle while eating snakes.
So, while there are no less than five other versions of Metal Gear Solid 3, Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater is now the definitive place to play a bonafide classic in a way that feels both accessibly modern, but still authentic to the original experience.
Konami brings the classic Metal Gear Solid 3 to the modern age with stunning visuals, quality-of-life improvements and a feast for fans new and old.
Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater is a masterful remake of this beloved classic. The updated graphics and modernized controls make it viable for modern gamers, but you still get the same basic experience of the original. Right now, this is the definitive way to experience Metal Gear Solid 3.
Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater is unequivocally the best way to play Metal Gear Solid 3 if you’re all about modern comforts and higher frame rates. But under all the modernising gloss, it’s the same silly, daft game full of world-saving babble, over-the-top performances, surprise-stuffing, and a confounding script that’s very much a product of its time, for better or for worse.
Remaking Metal Gear without its creator seems foolhardy but this is as good an effort as could be imagined, without completely redesigning the original game.