Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater recreates Metal Gear Solid 3 scene-for-scene while modernizing controls and visuals. The remake preserves unique, reactive mechanics such as vomiting if the medical-screen camera is spun too fast, killing a boss early by sniping after a cutscene, and food-based stamina effects like rabbit versus instant ramen. Iconic, purpose-built systems include digging bullets, bandaging, burning leeches, and snaring wildlife to recover stamina. Unreal Engine 5 graphics and MGS5-style controls lend softer, memory-like visuals, rich textures, and diverse environments ranging from lush jungles to dusty mountain trails and austere laboratories.
If you whip the camera around Snake in the medical screen too quickly he falls to his knees and blows chunks when you return to the game, if you quickly snipe a boss after a cutscene hours before his scheduled fight, he'll be dead when you're supposed to face him, and rabbit might taste pretty good, but instant ramen noodles are still the greatest food known to man.
It's full of bespoke, purpose-built mechanics which had never been used before or since, all of which were so exciting in their nerdy but approachable simulation. Whether it's digging out bullets with a combat knife and bandaging the wound or burning off a fat leech with an equally stubby cuban cigar in the Cure screen, or snaring vampire bats, rats and reticulated pythons to recover your stamina, each moving part is so simply implemented, but with an accessibility that made them iconic.
Metal Gear Solid Delta translates the original's quirkiness beautifully to a new generation with MGS5-esque controls and modern Unreal 5 engine textures and lighting which don't so much reinvent the classic, but leverage the soft-focus of memory. Delta looks like you remember MGS3 looking, rather than the sharp, polygonal reality of a 20 year old PS2 game. The visual improvements are, by-and-large, fantastic, going above and beyond
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