After briefly showing within the Xbox Video games Showcase, a brand new video for Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater has revealed extra particulars on the sport’s graphics and gameplay. A remake of the PS2 recreation, Snake Eater has been rebuilt in Unreal Engine 5 and now options more-realistic environments and upgraded character fashions. One fascinating additional reality right here is character harm, as narrator and Bare Snake voice actor David Hayter defined how any harm inflicted on a participant all through their journey might be eternally etched throughout Snake’s physique.
One other large change in Snake Eater are the controls, as gamers who’ve turn out to be extra accustomed to fashionable motion video games ought to really feel proper at residence with how the sport performs. A 3rd-person stealth-action title, Snake Eater makes use of the usual overheard digicam to present gamers larger consciousness of their environment. For those who’d favor a extra traditional method, with Legacy Type the sport will play like the unique Snake Eater with its conventional overhead digicam and related controls.
Producer Noriaki Okamura, who labored on a number of Metal Gear video games like Transportable Ops, added that the venture has a number of Metal Gear veterans engaged on it. Nonetheless, he did acknowledge that everybody “who’s not engaged on Metal Gear is pursuing their very own path now,” and that can stay the case for these titles.
“I do assume it’s significant to current these titles the identical approach they have been, and never exit of the way in which simply to alter a variety of issues,” Okamura mentioned in regards to the remake’s visuals. “Pixel graphics can keep as pixels, early 3D can keep trying a little bit crunchy, is how I see it. However clearly, new generations of gamers hold coming, so we wanted to do extra there than simply put out the identical video games once more. With that in thoughts, we left the gameplay, the story, and the voice forged of the unique as is. However we needed to convey the graphics and the controls and play-feel as much as fashionable requirements, all of which have modified through the years, so all of that has been up to date, however the core recreation, and the artistic imaginative and prescient of the unique employees, none of these components of the sport have modified.”
Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater does not have a launch date but, though 2024 does mark the twentieth anniversary of what many contemplate to be one of the best recreation in the complete Metal Gear Solid sequence. Creator Hideo Kojima, who exited Konami after Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Ache, can be engaged on a brand new stealth-action recreation referred to as Phsyint, and he says he was impressed to return to the style as a response to fan requests.