Konami lastly confirmed yesterday that Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater will launch on August 28, 2025, with the brand new teaser trailer additionally revealing the Snake vs. Monkey minigame is equally making a comeback.
Snake will not take on Pipo Monkeys in all editions of the sport, nevertheless. Whereas the teaser proven throughout yesterday’s Sony’s State of Play 2025 gave followers a glimpse of an Ape Escape monkey in the jungle wilds of Snake Eater on PlayStation 5 and PC, becoming neatly with the PS2 unique, Xbox Collection X and S gamers will take on a completely different risk.
Though we have but to see any in-game footage, Konami’s Xbox teaser, under, closes not with Snake vs. Monkey however Snake vs Bomberman. Sure. Actually.
The unique mode unlocked two objects for Snake that carried over into the principle recreation: first-view-perspective Monkey Masks and his Banana Camouflage, which made even rotten meals edible. Proper now it is unclear if Bomberman will give Xbox gamers the identical benefits, or one thing fully completely different.
“Metal Gear Solid Delta appears extra like a very shiny HD remaster than the elegant remake it may have been,” IGN stated in our Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater preview, which displays on Snake’s new first-person perspective.
“It’s an admittedly stunning nostalgia journey, however nearly devoted to a fault.”
Make sure to try IGN’s round-up of all the pieces introduced at State of Play 2025 for extra on what’s coming to PlayStation 5 in the years forward, together with particulars of Housemarque’s Saros and Days Gone Remastered.
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