I was wholly hooked the archetypal clip I played Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. The stealth mechanics, brutal endurance elements, and insane Cold War espionage crippled felt similar nary different crippled astatine the time. I inactive retrieve crawling done the jungle with my camo set, hoping to debar an force patrol lone to get spotted by a defender and person the full country connected precocious alert.
20 years later, Metal Gear Solid 3 Delta is bringing each that backmost with a afloat Unreal Engine 5 remake. Konami keeps the archetypal game’s communicative and mechanics intact but upgrades everything visually and makes immoderate modern quality-of-life tweaks.
The biggest change? New power styles. You tin either play with a modern third-person setup similar successful Metal Gear Solid 4 and 5 oregon instrumentality to the classical fixed-camera mode from the PS2 version. Plus, Snake’s injuries, clothing, and situation interactions present persist crossed your playthrough. If you crawl done the mud, your azygous gets dirty. If you instrumentality a bullet, the scar stays with you.
With the crippled present confirmed to merchandise connected August 26, 2025, Fanatical is offering a tremendous 25% disconnected pre-order discount, truthful you tin drawback the Standard Edition for £52.49 / $52.49 (was £69.99 / $69.99) oregon the Digital Deluxe Edition for £59.99 / $59.99 (was £79.99 / $79.99). The Deluxe Edition comes with bonus skins, including Snake’s Sneaking Suit from Peace Walker, the Battle Dress, and adjacent a golden outfit for erstwhile you privation to look ridiculous successful cutscenes.
There's immoderate large nods to the original. The Snake vs. Monkey mini-game is backmost connected PS5 and PC, but Xbox players get a Snake vs. Bomberman crossover instead. The Survival Viewer has been revamped, truthful you tin spot each the cuts and bruises Snake picks up successful real-time, making healing consciousness adjacent much immersive.
I ne'er thought we would spot Konami enactment existent effort into a Metal Gear crippled again aft Metal Gear Survive, but this 1 looks similar the existent deal. If you privation to acquisition Big Boss’s root communicative successful the champion mode possible, this is the mentation to get.