Konami is bringing again Metal Gear multiplayer with Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, however don’t count on it to play like Metal Gear Online.
Metal Gear Online is the fondly remembered multiplayer spin-off bundled with 2008’s Metal Gear Solid 4: Weapons of the Patriots. Its servers shut down 4 years later, in 2012.
With this August’s launch of Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, the remake of 2004’s Metal Gear Solid 3, Konami will rekindle Metal Gear multiplayer with Fox Hunt, though it mentioned its gameplay is totally totally different than MGO’s.
In a brand new video, Konami revealed snippets of Fox Hunt gameplay, which present a soldier managed from a third-person perspective utilizing camo tech to mix in with their setting. For extra, try the whole lot introduced at Konami Press Begin Stay June 2025.
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Yu Sahara, director of Fox Hunt mode in Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, mentioned this new on-line multiplayer mode takes “camouflage and hide-and-go-seek to the subsequent stage,” utilizing the “forwards and backwards stress of staying hidden or looking for the enemy” to create one thing distinctive.
“Fox Hunt is a totally authentic on-line multiplayer mode,” Sahara mentioned. “Though it shares the identical world with Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, the gameplay is totally totally different.
“After we say Metal Gear multiplayer, many followers will in all probability consider Metal Gear Online, however Fox Hunt might be its personal new kind of mode. We very a lot admire all of the long-time followers of MGO who’ve all the time needed to see it make a comeback, however the panorama of multiplayer video games has modified rather a lot since MGO. It took loads of cautious consideration to consider what a brand new on-line mode ought to appear like.
“Based mostly on the long-lasting stealth and survival components of the Metal Gear sequence, we’re taking camouflage and conceal and go search to the subsequent stage. We challenged ourselves to make one thing distinctive that’s greater than only a shootout. We’ve used that forwards and backwards stress of staying hidden or looking for the enemy to create an on-line expertise distinctive to Metal Gear.”
Anticipate extra info on Fox Hunt quickly, Sahara added.
In the meantime, the video confirmed off extra of Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, in addition to its PC and PlayStation 5 Ape Escape crossover mode, Snake vs Monkey, and Xbox Bomberman crossover mode, Snake vs Bomberman.
Yuji Korekado, artistic producer, mentioned of the primary sport: “Whereas the essential gameplay of the boss battles stays the identical, we’ve made some updates to the AI and animations, and rebalanced some issues.”
Secret Theater additionally returns, however within the remake, the unique Secret Theater movies can now be discovered as collectibles in-game. There are new Secret Theater movies made for Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, secretly carried by enemy troopers.
In April, IGN reported on Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater’s ESRB itemizing, which talked about the sport consists of suggestive and sexual content material such because the Peep Demo Theater unlockable further characteristic discovered within the Subsistence and HD Assortment variations of the unique Metal Gear Solid 3.
Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater launches throughout PlayStation, Xbox, and PC on August 28, 2025.
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