Metal Gear Solid Delta trailer shows off Fox Hunt multiplayer mode, Ape Escape, boss battles, and more

Konami shared a new Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater gameplay trailer during its Press Start news event on Thursday, revealing that the series is returning to multiplayer with a new game mode called Fox Hunt.

The new teaser showed a soldier character controlled from a third-person POV, blending elements found in the base game for Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater while showing how the camouflage tech can be used to hide from other players.

Yu Sahara, director of the new Fox Hunt mode, detailed in the video that the multiplayer experience will take “camouflage and hide and go seek to the next level” while building upon the “back and forth tension of staying hidden or searching out the enemy” to create a fresh new take on MGS multiplayer. As he continued, Sahara mentioned 2008’s Metal Gear Online, a multiplayer game mode that was included with Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, and insisted that Fox Hunt and MGO are nothing alike.

“Fox Hunt is a completely original online multiplayer mode,” Sahara said in the teaser trailer. “Although it shares the same world with Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, the gameplay is completely different…When we say Metal Gear multiplayer, many fans will probably think of Metal Gear Online, but Fox Hunt will be its own new type of mode. We very much appreciate all the long-time fans of MGO who have always wanted to see it make a comeback, but the landscape of multiplayer games has changed a lot since MGO. It took a lot of careful consideration to think about what a new online mode should look like.

“Based on the stealth and survival elements of Metal Gear, we are taking camouflage and hide-and-go-seek to the next level. We challenged ourselves to make something unique that is more than just a shootout. We’ve used that back-and-forth tension of staying hidden or searching out the enemy to create an online experience unique to Metal Gear.”

Elsewhere, Konami showed a bit more about the Ape Escape-adjacent mode, Snake vs. Monkey, and the Xbox-exclusive version, which features Bomberman. The teaser trailer even offered a glimpse at the reworked UI for Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater and revamped combat mechanics during boss battles while staying true to the original essence of the critically acclaimed 2004 game.

Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater will be released on Aug. 28 for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, and PC.