With the advance entry of Steel Gear Strong Delta: Snake Eater slated to occur later in the present day, and the complete launch being out in simply a few days – on August 28 – it seems like Konami is now planning for the way forward for the Steel Gear franchise. In an interview with Rolling Stone at Gamescom 2025, producers and collection veterans Noriaki Okamura and Yuji Korekado spoke about bringing again the Steel Gear collection and modernising it for the present viewers.
“One factor that was actually useful was to know how fashionable players play video games; what frustrates them, what makes it simpler for them,” Korekado mentioned. “[We] have been in a position to get a whole lot of suggestions from all of the youthful growth workers. We have been conscious that we would have liked to keep up the unique. We wished to maintain the story, wished to maintain the gameplay as [close] to the unique as attainable. They understood the project, and what they did is assist us ensure that [it’s] not too awkward, it nonetheless looks like a enjoyable and thrilling sport.”
In terms of Konami’s determination to deliver again the Steel Gear collection with a remake of Steel Gear Strong 3: Snake Eater – initially launched on the PS2 in 2004 – Okamura spoke about desirous to deliver again the traditional for a brand new viewers. He additionally spoke concerning the significance of bringing again the franchise for an viewers that hasn’t actually grown up with a mainline Steel Gear title because the launch of Steel Gear Strong 5: The Phantom Ache in 2015.
“It’s a really black and white reply for us: As a result of we’re getting outdated,” defined Okamura. “We solely have a number of years disregarded of us to make a sport, proper? And one of many issues that we observed, and what actually kicked off this undertaking, is that we began seeing an enormous wave of latest players that [weren’t] even conscious or didn’t even [know] Steel Gear earlier than. And [we] have been like, ‘We have to do one thing about this as a result of we wished to hold on the legacy.’”
He additionally spoke about the truth that Konami is taking a look at bringing in a brand new era of sport builders, and utilizing the event of Steel Gear Strong Delta: Snake Eater as a solution to practice them to construct up the way forward for the collection. He defined that, with the remake, he’s targeted on constructing a group that has discovered methods to make a Steel Gear sport that may then go on to “keep on the legacy on our behalf.”
“So, one of many explanation why we introduced in a whole lot of recent meat — all the brand new, youthful builders — is as a result of, not solely did we need to give them an opportunity to determine methods to create and develop a Steel Gear sport, but additionally give them an opportunity to expertise the sport themselves,” Okamura continued. “And we’ll nonetheless be right here for some time, however proper now the aim is to construct a group that would keep on the legacy on our behalf and will produce, hopefully sooner or later, extra thrilling video games.”
Steel Gear Strong Delta: Snake Eater is coming to PC, PS5 and Xbox Collection X/S. Whereas the title has an official launch date of August 28, those that seize the Digital Deluxe Version can play it two days earlier – later in the present day. For extra particulars concerning the title, try our evaluation.
