Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater Reviews

Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater is ranked in the 95th percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
9 / 10.0
Aug 22, 2025

Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater delivers a visually stunning and faithful remake of the stealth-action classic, blending modern enhancements with the iconic core experience. While the upgraded controls, camera, and animations improve accessibility and immersion, some of these modern features also reduce the original game's difficulty and tension, slightly shifting the balance that made it so memorable.

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Arabhardware
Top Critic
9 / 10.0
Aug 24, 2025

Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater offers an excellent experience that preserves the spirit of the original almost entirely, with a graphical boost that's unmatched. While the game may not offer much new gameplay, it's certainly an excellent remake of one of 2004's best games.

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8.5 / 10.0
Aug 22, 2025

Konami has taken Subsistence as a model and significantly increased the amount of activities

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90 / 100
Aug 24, 2025

Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater is a modernized version of a classic that stays true to the original. The best way to experience Snake's journey is through its improved graphics, better controls, and more atmospheric details. There are still some strange pacing issues, but they don't get in the way of the original's identity. Delta: Snake Eater strikes the perfect balance between nostalgia and innovation, showing that true legends don't need to be remade; they need to be improved.

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Aug 23, 2025

Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater is a faithful remake that sharpens the look and feel of a classic without changing its core. The story of loyalty and betrayal still hits just as hard, and the stealth gameplay remains rewarding with a few helpful tweaks. Some stiff animations and performance dips hold it back, but the strong audio, boss battles, and extras make it worth revisiting. Delta proves Snake Eater still matters twenty years later.

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100 / 100
Aug 23, 2025

Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater delivers a faithful remake of the 2004 classic, blending stealth, action, and espionage with stunning visuals, engaging story, and refined gameplay.

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GAMES.CH
Top Critic
89%
Aug 23, 2025

"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.

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83 / 100
Aug 22, 2025

Metal Gear Solid: Delta is an excellent remaster of Metal Gear Solid 3. There’s something here for both newcomers and longtime fans, for better or worse.

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8 / 10.0
Aug 22, 2025

Metal Gear Solid Δ: Snake Eater is a passionate tribute to Hideo Kojima's 2004 masterpiece. This new edition introduces several updates, especially in terms of graphics and controls. On the other hand, Konami's new work is faithful to the original to a fault, foregoing gameplay innovations that would have given players more freedom and immersion.

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Siliconera
Top Critic
8 / 10.0
Aug 22, 2025

A remake of one of the best games of all time, though it would have benefited from more quality-of-life changes to allow it to shine

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9.2 / 10.0
Aug 22, 2025

The original MGS3 still is a masterpiece of design and storytelling. Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater adds a few quality of life improvements and polishes the gameplay a bit more while paying close attention to the original, presenting it to a new audience.

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10 / 10
Aug 22, 2025

Re-creating a masterpiece is no easy feat, but with Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, Konami has delivered a near-flawless remake of one of gaming's greatest titles. This stunning recreation, built in Unreal Engine 5, retains the iconic story, superb voice acting, and memorable soundtrack of the 2004 classic while modernizing the graphics and controls. By staying true to the original's vision and adding new accessibility features, this remake is the definitive way for both veterans and newcomers to experience the genius of Metal Gear Solid 3.

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9 / 10.0
Aug 22, 2025

Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater revives one of the best stories in video games. Its exploration, stealth, and boss battles are as memorable as ever, although certain control issues persist and can be frustrating at critical moments. Despite this, the experience is essential and worthy of the series' legacy.

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10 / 10.0
Aug 22, 2025

Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater is not just a remake; it’s a celebration of a masterpiece, a project made with so much love and respect for the source material that it feels like it was developed by the very people who created the original. And that, in itself, is a testament to its quality and why it’s one of the best remakes I’ve ever played.

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8.5 / 10.0
Aug 22, 2025

Konami takes a very restrained approach to remaking Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater and breathes new life into a twenty one year old game. This is part of the reason behind naming it Delta, which means variation as that’s what it is: a slight variation of a classic. What Metal Gear Solid Delta proves is that transitioning to a new engine is possible, as it retains the spirit of the series. It might also prove that fans are still highly interested in the series after the departure of Kojima, but what it fails to prove is if the new team can produce original content because there is nothing original about Metal Gear Solid Delta. The end result is a very approachable game for people who have never played a Metal Gear or this particular entry, but for existing fans of the series, that's a more complex answer. Judging Metal Gear Solid Delta on its own merits as a remake, it brings Snake Eater into the modern age, but ultimately plays it very safe.

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Aug 22, 2025

Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater respectfully honors the original while adding meaningful quality-of-life improvements and stunning visuals. The choice to preserve the story while updating controls and gameplay makes it accessible to both longtime fans and newcomers. With thoughtful extras and a respectful nod to Kojima’s legacy, this remake shows Konami is on the right track.

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90 / 100
Aug 22, 2025

Not many remakes can replicate this essence, yet Konami somehow pulls it off with flying colours.

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8 / 10.0
Aug 22, 2025

Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater successfully modernizes a gaming classic, with Konami delivering a visually stunning and smoother experience that respects the original almost to a fault. While its extreme fidelity limits the potential for a bold, fully reimagined remake, this remains the definitive version of a timeless masterpiece - an essential opportunity to relive or discover one of gaming’s most historic titles.

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9 / 10.0
Aug 22, 2025

Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater is so faithful it missed out on a few opportunities to bring it into the present, but it's still a fantastic game nonetheless.

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80 / 100
Aug 22, 2025

Metal Gear Solid Δ: Snake Eater faithfully recreates Kojima’s masterpiece with updated visuals and smoother controls but its dated AI and technical flaws keep it from reaching its full potential.

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