Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater maintains the suggestive and sexual content from Metal Gear Solid 3, including the notorious Peep Demo Theatre, as confirmed by an age rating. Although developer Konami has yet to officially verify the inclusion of this controversial content, the U.S. classification board, the ESRB, has given the stealth action game a Mature 17+ rating. This rating is attributed to the game's realistic gunfire, cries of pain, bloody combat, and "suggestive/sexual content."

The ESRB's detailed report on the game's violence includes scenes such as a restrained character being beaten and electrocuted, a character shot in the eye, and another set on fire and shot multiple times. Regarding the suggestive/sexual content, the ESRB notes instances like a man groping a woman's breasts, close-up camera angles focusing on deep cleavage, a character briefly groping a man's crotch, and the Peep Demo Theatre. This feature, which appears in the Subsistance and HD Collection versions of the original Metal Gear Solid 3, allows players to view cutscenes featuring a female character in her underwear from a first-person perspective. Unlocking this feature requires playing through the game four times.

Konami has officially announced that Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater will be released on August 28. Alongside this announcement, a new teaser trailer revealed the return of the beloved Snake vs. Monkey minigame.

In our Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater preview, IGN described the game as more of a "shiny HD remaster" than the "elegant remake" it could have been. The review highlighted the game's beautiful nostalgia but criticized its faithfulness to the original, suggesting it might be too close to the source material. The original Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater received an impressive score of 9.6 from IGN.