Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater Reviews
Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater is a faithful, beautifully crafted remake that modernizes the classic without losing its soul. Despite easier boss fights and rare bugs, it delivers stunning visuals, tighter gameplay, and enough extras to make it a must play for both fans and newcomers.
Being perhaps what you might expect, Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater is a remake that is far from an out-there reinvigoration, instead opting to refine and fine-tune elements of its past rather than offering much new. That can take away from the grandeur and excitement of the experience a little, and it's undoubtedly not helped by the choice to favour fidelity of environments and character models rather than the stylistic filtering and other artistic decisions we know and love the original for. With Delta, there's now ironically a bit of an oroborous situation for Snake Eater, where the cycle continues, bringing a wonderful and memorable tale to audiences old and new, but also harming itself and its image in the process. Still, a bloody good game is a bloody good game. You're in safe hands, wading through the dense forestry with Snake, and to many, the journey to a 1960s USSR setting will feel like coming home.
Konami has pulled off a miracle here with Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, by staying completely true to the original but adding in modern controls, a new camera angle and overhauled visuals. They have been able to breath new life into this classic stealth-action game, making me feel like I was experiencing it all for the first time again. Ultimately standing on the strength of the original and modernising it to provide the best stealth action game you can play in 2025.
Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater delivers an elegant and respectful remake of Metal Gear Solid 3, honoring both the legacy of the series and its fans.
Review in Chinese | Read full review
Delta is a remake that walks a tightrope between admiration and routine. It takes your breath away when you traverse the jungle as Snake, yet it constantly reminds you that you are experiencing something already seen, merely dressed in new lights and polygons. Konami has done an impeccable job technically, but without Kojima's wild touch, everything remains predictable, elegant, yet lacking the spark that made the original an unforgettable experience.
Review in Italian | Read full review
With Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, Konami has crafted a visually arresting re-release so fawning and reverent that it reads entirely incurious. Fans of the source material will no doubt relish the opportunity to play a more modern-feeling take on a generational piece of art, but such a seemingly important work should inspire more.
Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater is a great way for old fans to replay an undisputed classic. Newcomers will appreciate the added features and smoother playability. The story and gameplay are rock solid, with tons of features and unlockable things to mess around with that will keep players busy longer than ever.
Metal Gear Solid Delta is everything we expected from the original, but it also falls far short of making any meaningful improvements or advancements.
Review in Persian | Read full review
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.
Review in Persian | Read full review
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.
Snake Eater, in its time travel 20 years into the future, hasn’t fully managed to preserve its masterpiece status in every sense, but it has succeeded in remaining a truly one-of-a-kind experience.
Review in Turkish | Read full review
Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater marks an impressive return for the series. Playing it once again highlights why Hideo Kojima was able to craft one of gaming’s true masterpieces and push the medium forward in so many ways. Rather than a full reimagining, Metal Gear Solid Delta is best described as a graphical overhaul of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater 3D. That said, the game isn’t without flaws. Performance issues, unnecessary simplifications, and the lack of meaningful additions to justify the “remake” label hold it back from true greatness. Even so, Metal Gear Solid Delta remains a high-quality stealth-action title that I’d have no hesitation recommending.
Review in Persian | Read full review
On the other hand, this really isn’t a new game, and while it wouldn’t be fair to say the remake’s efforts were “lazy,” it’s also hard to shake the feeling that where the Silent Hill 2 remake was exciting by virtue of how new it was, this is just that game, that we’ve already played and loved to death, in a prettier dress. But hey, if you’ve somehow not played Metal Gear Solid 3 before, this is going to blow your mind.
"Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater" proves to be a near-perfect remake, mastering the delicate balance between nostalgia and modernization with admirable precision. Konami has proven that the essence of Kojima's vision can be preserved and presented in a contemporary way even without the master himself.
Review in Russian | Read full review
With Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, Konami has achieved what it set out to do: breathe new life into a classic while keeping it as authentic as possible. With that in mind, its only real faults are some mechanics which now feel a little awkward and dated. The visuals here are phenomenal, bringing more nuance to the game's cutscenes, and the new modern play style is great for newcomers and those annoyed by the restrictive camera of the original game.
Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater is a fantastic game because the title it's based on is splendid. Konami offers excellent graphics in this new version. The only problem is that there was room to modernize elements of the original game while still maintaining respect for the work, but the developer decided to play safe. This means that if you're expecting something different from what you've known for over 20 years, you'll be disappointed. On the other hand, for those looking to relive Snake's adventure or experience the saga for the first time, Metal Gear Solid Delta is an excellent option.
Review in Portuguese | Read full review
A cynic might look at it and see a barely enhanced 20+ year old game, but a closer inspection reveals a version that meticulously enhances the game's rough edges without affecting its design or balance at all. The perfect remaster for a title that even now is ahead of the game.
Review in Arabic | Read full review
A practically flawless remake of an already incredible title, METAL GEAR SOLID Δ should be on your radar.
Overall, Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater is a well done remaster of a game that remains as classic as it ever was. The changes are a mix of positive and negative, but there aren't any that drag down the experience. At worst, they're a matter of preference. For many people, this title is likely to be the optimal way to experience Metal Gear Solid 3, and it's easy to be impressed by the sheer amount of work that went into capturing the classic original.