Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater (formally Metal Gear Solid Δ: Snake Eater) is a remake of the unique Metal Gear Solid 3 that provides a full third-person mode to the recreation, however having the ability to run and gun made it really easy Konami manually bumped up the problem.
In an interview with Famitsu translated by Automaton, artistic producer Yuji Korekado mentioned the two gameplay modes obtainable in Metal Gear Solid Delta: Legacy Fashion and New Fashion. The previous is an actual recreation of the 2004 recreation, primarily a top-down digital camera with a hard and fast perspective, whereas the latter options fashionable gameplay in a third-person mode.
One other distinction between the two modes is that New Fashion offers gamers the potential to maneuver whereas aiming and taking pictures. This was technically attainable in the unique recreation (and thus can be in Legacy Mode) however hitting a goal was virtually unimaginable.
The issue of Metal Gear Solid 3 was subsequently balanced to work with standing nonetheless earlier than taking pictures enemies, primarily giving them somewhat bit extra time to deal injury. When that point was taken away in the fashionable third-person New Fashion, Konami discovered taking them out made the recreation too simple.
“New Fashion gives a wider, linear area of view, and you’ll shoot your gun whereas shifting Snake, which made the problem stage decrease than we had anticipated,” Korekado mentioned. “Nevertheless, if we had been to regulate issues to match the New Fashion, that might make the Legacy Fashion too troublesome. That’s why we determined to separate the two play types.”
The totally different modes will subsequently really feel like the similar problem, however that is solely as a result of Konami has adjusted them to be totally different behind the scenes.
Metal Gear Solid Delta continues to be set for a 2024 launch regardless of the finish of the 12 months drawing nearer and nearer, with a launch due on PlayStation 5, Xbox Collection X and S, and PC.
Past the New Fashion and its third-person perspective, the recreation is in any other case shaping as much as be an actual recreation of the unique. “Metal Gear Solid Delta appears extra like a really shiny HD remaster than the elegant remake it may have been,” IGN mentioned in our preview. “It’s an admittedly lovely nostalgia journey, however nearly trustworthy to a fault.”
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll speak about The Witcher all day.