Metal Gear Solid 3DS out November?

By Tom Phillips Published 9 May, 2011

Snake Eater aims for year's tail end.

Konami has reportedly pegged Metal Gear Solid 3: The Snake Eater 3D - The Naked Sample for a November release in the UK.

It's the first we've heard of the game since last October, when the publisher promised a European launch was coming. Konami will finally have Snake Eater 3D ready by Christmas, MCV understands.

Almost a year after its E3 2010 reveal, all we have seen of Snake Eater 3D is a seven minute tech demo.

At one point Konami even suggested the game would never exist beyond this form.

The on-rails experience was engineered to exploit the the 3DS' technical capabilities. How much of the setting, if any, will remain?

In the demo players had thumb pad control of the camera as Snake inched through a jungle setting. Crocodiles snapped their jaws at the screen, enemies loomed around tree trunks, and Snake dangled perilously from a wooden rope bridge, his legs swinging ungainly.

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Comments (13) Latest comment 1 year ago

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  • Hunam #1 1 year ago

    Forced pun is forced.

  • jag10 #2 1 year ago

    only game worth getting a 3DS for.

  • GamesProgrammer Verified Games Team Programmer, Eutechnyx Ltd. #3 1 year ago

    So its a port of MGS 3 and they turned it into an on rails shooter.

    To get me to buy a 3DS i want NEW games, and certainly not bastardized ports, for god sake is nothing sacred.

  • mikeleddy83 #4 1 year ago

    So, in short we're looking at a game that'll probably have about 70% of the performance of the demo? I'm still in, just a bit surprised that what we previously saw isn't the real deal.

    Major shame that those September release dates were a bit off though :(

  • The12thMonkey #5 1 year ago

    Snaaaaaaaaaake Eaaaaaaaaaaaateeeeeeerrrrrrr


    /getscoat

  • Raiko101 #6 1 year ago

    I've got high hopes for this. It will look pretty awesome in 3D. I hope there is some kind of multiplayer!

  • Ryze #7 1 year ago

    Forgot about this one. Where was it at launch? Could have helped save the 3DS at retail up to this point!

  • coomber #8 1 year ago

    Sod this. Where is the Raiden game?!

  • BonzoBanana #9 1 year ago

    Don't know what to think of this, is it a tech demo, is it on rails, which bits are fmv and which do you interact with? Hard to know if this is going to brilliant or a complete load of rubbish. If this really was just a tech demo running on development hardware more powerful than the actual 3DS it is very unfair to people who may have bought the 3DS on the technical promise of this game. The real games so far don't even come close to this level of performance and games with massively simplistic game engines in comparison have frame rate issues. I know Konami have done some awesome game engines in the past that have really pushed humble hardware to the limit like the ps1 though.



  • TheEarlOfZinger #10 1 year ago

    Never owned a ps2. Got a 3ds arriving tomorrow. This is good news.

  • eddiehitler #11 1 year ago

    How about a port of the PSP gimped Peace Walker or Portable ops instead as fewer people will have played them?

  • zedzee #12 1 year ago

    "...aims for year's tail end." And that's when the 3DS should've been released also.

  • Silent-Hal #13 1 year ago

    Wish I knew more about this, Metal Gear Solid 3 is one of my all time favourite games. If it's on-rails then I couldn't care less about it, but if it's a port of the original then that'd be one more reason for me getting a 3DS. And, it's sad to say, there aren't really very many of those at the moment...