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Those itching to play camouflage dress-up won’t have to wait much longer. Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater is coming Aug. 28 this year, according to a leaked trailer taken from PlayStation’s own digital shop. For those who want to listen to the dulcet tones of David Hayter reprising his role as Naked Snake, you may also get to hear him utter his most famous lines, such as “If you want your monkeys, you better ask Spike or Jimmy.” Wait, what?
Players who noticed the store page posted the release date and trailer to the ResetEra forums (via EuroGamer). The users also posted the trailer, which you can watch for yourself for now. It includes several classic cutscenes from the original 2004 game redone in Unreal Engine 5. Does it look more detailed than MGS3: Snake Eater? Of course, though, the characters have a too-clean, plastic look that I have yet to get used to, even though it’s similar to Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth and other modern remakes.
The big surprise for the trailer was the snapshot of the Ape Escape monkey in the final few seconds. That harkens back to the Snake vs. Monkey minigame hidden in the MGS 3 2005 rerelease, Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence, and it seems Konami is bringing it back for more monkeying around. Those miniature levels tasked Naked Snake with running around some of the game’s forest levels to find all the hidden apes. Subsistence included other extras, like its second disc’s hilarious, unlockable Secret Theater cutscenes. We have to cross our fingers in hopes that Konami will also include those cutscenes with the upgraded graphics.
I beat Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence three times back on the PlayStation 2. It seemed a fitting number for what is (inarguably) the best Metal Gear Kojima Productions ever released. All the content for MGS3: Delta has had me equally intrigued and cautious. Other Metal Gear games lacked Hideo Kojima’s direction—some were even okay—though Konami has a lot to prove that it can hit the mark with the remake, even ignoring the graphics uplift.
The game should be out on Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 5, and PC. MGS Delta will also receive a PlayStation 5 Pro Enhanced label at launch, though we still don’t know what graphical uplift that may entail.
