French Site Leaks Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater Preview

Key Takeaways

An early French preview of MGS Delta leaks and gets deleted very quickly.
The game is closer to MGS4 than MGSV with a few extra details sprinkled around.
Kojima-era devs are working on the remake.

French video game site Jeux Videoshared and then quickly deleted a video of an early preview of Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater.

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According to X user LordEmmerichF91, the site’s reviewer had around 90 minutes of game time, cutscenes included. Likely, they only played through the “Virtuous Mission” section of the game, the same one present in Konami’s marketing material.

As translated by the poster, the French reviewer said the game played closer to Metal Gear Solid 4 than to Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain with “new details” in cutscenes. With the latter being a semi-open-world game, its gameplay might feel jarring inside the tighter environments of the older Metal Gear Solid games.

The video is nowhere to be found at the moment as Jeux Video is notorious for its takedowns of people who repost anything the site leaks.

The original poster anticipates that we’ll get more information next week, but that remains to be seen.

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Since the remake’s announcement in May last year, many fans of the Metal Gear series have voiced concerns over Konami remaking the classic without its creator, Hideo Kojima, at the helm. With Konami‘s past errors, it’s only normal to clutch your pearls when they try to remake a game as beloved as Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater.

But while Kojima might not be at Konami anymore, his peers are still there.

Reportedly, many Kojima-era devs are working on Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, including the production manager on Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, Noriaki Okamura.

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Since Kojima’s departure, Konami has given us a Metal Gear zombie game and Pachinko machines. So, placing Okamura as the producer for Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater is possibly the wisest thing they could’ve done.

Okamura also worked as project and production support for Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance and Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, respectively. Kojima also gave him special thanks in 1998’s Metal Gear Solid.

Without much direct gameplay footage, Konami’s other remake, Silent Hill 2, might be the best look we have at what we can expect. And if the horror game’s remake is anything to go off, we’re in for a treat.

Between accepting fan feedback, delivering a graphical overhaul, and enhancing gameplay mechanics without drastic changes, the Silent Hill 2 remake seems to check every box for the faithful update of a classic.

What little we’ve seen of Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater is very promising, and with concurrent projects going smoothly, it’s hard to see Konami fumbling at this stage. Still, it is Konami. So, take all good information with a tablespoon of salt.

Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater has no release date as of now but is planned for a 2024 release and is open for preorders.