While most of the trailer features the same footage we’ve seen before, including various members of the Cobra Unit and even the Shagohod and primary antagonist Volgin, it ends with the words “Snake vs ???” against a silhouette of Bomberman. Xbox Series X/S players will feature the new game mode, while PC players will get access to Snake vs Monkey.

“The special game ‘Snake vs Monkey’ to capture the Pipo Monkeys is back for PS5 and Steam,” Konami posted in the description for the Xbox version of the trailer. “A different special game will be implemented for the Xbox version! Please wait for further details.”

As the trailer revealed, Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater will be coming to PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X/S on August 28. Interestingly, the trailer was leaked earlier this month, well before it would be shown officially during Sony’s State of Play event earlier this week. Among the things we got to see in the trailer are returning fan-favourite boss encounters, including The End.

Konami has also recently updated the Steam store listing for Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, revealing the minimum and recommended PC specs for playing the game. At bare minimum, PC players will need either an Intel i5 8600 or AMD Ryzen 5 3600 CPU, and an Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 Super GPU, along with 16 GB of RAM. Check out our coverage of the required specs for more details.

Various editions of the game were also detailed by Konami; there are four editions of Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater available for pre-order, with two each being for physical and digital copies. Check out the details here.

Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater is a ground-up remake of seminal PS2 stealth action title Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. The story involves protagonist Naked Snake having to travel through the lush rainforests of Soviet Russia in order to take down the Cobra Unit and Volgin. There are plenty of twists and turns along the way, as well as a healthy serving of the melodrama that fans of the Metal Gear franchise appreciate.

A trailer from back in November gave us a good look at how Metal Gear Solid Delta will be upgrading the visuals over the original PS2 version of the game. It also revealed that EVA will be voiced by Jodi Bensen, who will be joining Lori Alan reprising her role as The Boss. Check out the recently-released screenshots for a better look at the title.

Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater is also rumoured to be in development for the Nintendo Switch 2.

The year was 1999. People were checking their email on blackberries, The Matrix was changing action movies forever, and floppy disks were still a thing. Also, a weird little game about super smart time-travelling apes hell-bent on world domination was coming out called Ape Escape. Little did anyone know that image of a cartoon monkey with those Pipo helmets would live on in our minds for many years to come. The first game in the series was met with immediate success and roundly praised for its creative art style, innovative controls, and just plain addicting gameplay. Luckily for the game, the Sony PlayStation’s analog sticks were becoming standardized and the popularity of the DualShock would happen to coincide perfectly with the release of the game.

While seemingly odd at first, the control scheme for Ape Escape proved to be highly function and easy to adapt to. Much like Katamari and other quirky games that do their own thing with Sony’s DualShocks, Ape Escape found its own footing quickly with gamers and critics, in part, because of the distinct input methods. In addition to interesting controls, the game stood out with an equally unique story, setting, and level design. The bright vivid levels might have reminded one of Crash Bandicoot or Spyro at first glance, but upone playing Ape Escape, it was obvious that this game was doing its own thing, and other than a few moments where the frame-rate would buckle, the whole thing ran fairly well all things considered. As you might expect, checking this many boxes lead Ape Escape to an extreme level of popularity in all major territories, proving that the desire for fun art styles, engaging controls, and unique settings are truly universal among gamers.

Right on schedule, the following year would see a much more powerful PlayStation 2 hit the market. And while countless developers were scrambling to launch their games on the DVD-rom powerhouse as quickly as possible, the Ape Escape series went dark for a couple of years. It was just the calm before the storm though. Ape Escape 2 launched on the PS2 in Japan in July of 2002, and in other territories the following year to the delight of fans all around the world who had been waiting patiently for a sequel to the original.

The set-up was largely the same idea as the first, with the main villain monkey, Specter, escaping from the lab, amassing an army of monkeys with accelerated intelligence thanks to more of those helmets, and Jimmy having to catch them with the help of various gadgets and techniques. 2 largely looked, sounded, and controlled like the original, although this time, levels were bigger, Jimmy had better gadgets, and the game was packed with extra unlockable content like new mini-games, comic strips, concept art, music tracks, and more. Ape Escape 2 did exactly what a good sequel is supposed to do; push the boundaries of the original while largely staying in-line with the format. Because of this it was an instant hit on the PlayStation 2, and even today still sells as a port to the PlayStation 4.

By the mid-2000s, Ape Escape was pretty much a household name. Most PlayStation owners either owned the games or at least had a favorable opinion of them from playing them at a friend’s house. More games were definitely in the works, but they weren’t rushed out. It wasn’t until 2005, towards the end of the PS2’s life cycle, that we saw the release of the much-anticipated 3rd installment and a remake of the original for the PSP. While the PSP’s lack of dual sticks downgraded the original’s gameplay a tad, it was still nice to have a finely-tuned version of that game on the go, and it received largely favorable reviews. As for Ape Escape 3 on the PS2, it was another hit for the series, although perhaps not quite as big of one as the second game.

Ape Escape 3 featured slightly better gameplay and graphics, but largely stuck to the script of what fans expect. Where it did shake things up was with its story and setting. Specter is up to his usual hijinks in part 3, but this time he’s hijacked television stations and is turning humans into mindless couch potatoes with mind-numbingly horrible programming. Kei and Yumi are the playable characters this time around, since the usual heroes are already entranced by Specter’s television plot. On top of that, transforming into different forms with different abilities was also added, which added scores of variety to the gameplay. The new characters, transformations, and the movie-set aesthetic didn’t change much about the gameplay ultimately, but it did serve as a new flavor to deliver the same addicting gameplay loop that had served the series so well up to that point.

Some describe Ape Escape 3 as a bit of a step backwards as there are fewer gadgets and it perhaps strayed away from the original’s charm with all the changes, but one could also argue that the third game in a series is the perfect time to try something new. Look at the successes of Grand Theft Auto 3, Resistance 3, Crash Bandicoot Warped, and Metal Gear Solid 3. These games are highly regarded as extremely important -if not the best- entries in their respective franchises largely due to their willingness to take creative risks with the formula. If you don’t change things up by the third game, you’re likely to get a lot of people saying stuff like “It’s good, but just more of the same.”

So far Ape Escape had largely stayed on track, delivering three great games and a serviceable remake over the better half of a decade, which isn’t a bad track record. Unfortunately, this is where the series fell off a cliff. Random spin-offs, party games, and a PlayStation Move game were shoveled out fairly regularly with less-reliable quality. In fact, nearly everything released under the name Ape Escape outside of the main 3 games turned out to be a let-down. Few exceptions, like Ape Escape Million Monkeys, were decent games but held back due to limited releases and stayed put in only one of the main gaming territories. Usually Asia. Over the next decade the franchise would become a bit of a mess with random spin-offs scattered around the world and the cohesion of the original three was lost. Today, most of these games can be found online for single-digit prices, although odds are, you’re going to have more fun just replaying the originals anyway.

It’s hard to single out exactly what caused this loss of focus that the original three games had, but it’s clear that the slew of underperforming games is a large part of why the series is dormant today. Why Sony Computer Entertainment couldn’t have just stuck with the format and spent the last ten years putting out Ape Escape 4, 5, and 6 is beyond comprehension. Especially considering that the franchise has generally stayed in the same hands it’s always been in, with no real discernable shift in development teams.

Perhaps there’s some marketing research results somewhere that scared Sony away from continuing to allocate an appropriate amount of resources into the series, but with all of the fan groups, twitter accounts, and discord serves dedicated to PlayStation Classics, where Ape Escape comes up all the time being out there, I think it’s fair to say that Sony should re-evaluate their findings. It’s hard to think of a series that could use a clean slate more than Ape Escape at this point. Whether that be through a Remake collection like we saw with Crash and Spyro, a full-on reboot, or a proper Ape Escape 4, the fan-base would definitely eat it up.

First advice I will be giving to you in this review- don’t be an idiot like me. Move Ape Escape is anything but fun. It is a sorry excuse for a game, with broken mechanics, repetitive levels and overall, it’s pretty boring.

Whenever you see this logo, run in the opposite direction for a mile and don’t look back.

In PlayStation Move Ape Escape, two girls are looking to catch apes for their time-travelling grandmother. You have three weapons with you- a… fan, a slingshot and a butterfly net. Basically, you have to capture apes that come charging at you.

That can often be a tough job, seeing as the controls are broken. If there had been an option to switch to regular controls, it would have still been okay, but seeing as this is a motion sensing only game, and that the motion controls are broken, it’s not. Slingshot controls are problematic, and the net doesn’t always swing the way you want it to.

The game would have been fun had it had  good level design. Unfortunately, that is not the case. The level design is poor and repetitive, and all you have to do is shoot at enemies or do something to paralyze them or momentarily disable them and capture them in nets. Other than the occasional boring boss fight, there’s not much break to it. It’s pretty boring, and gets boring really fast. The game is also very short, lasting you barely more than 2-3 hours. I was relieved to find out that I wouldn’t have to go through the horrible levels again, but still, you’d want value for money from your game.

The motion controls are broken- in a motion controls based game.

Because the controls of the game are so broken, the difficulty automatically gets enhanced, especially in the second half of the game. It’s frustrating, and really irritating to die at the hands of an ape because of control issues. Glitches also add to this issue- often, you might keep swinging at enemies, but the net just won’t capture any apes, despite making contact. It’s really, really frustrating.

Though the game has some good qualities- the sound track is jazzy and catchy, and the voice acting is decent (the sound effects are horrible, though). The art style is great as well, with cute character designs for the monkeys and overall eye-candy graphics. They’re nothing special, though, and they could have been much better, but they’re still good.

Cutscenes are great as well, well directed and well presented, presenting the story in a very entertaining manner.

The art style of the game is good.

Ultimately, you realize that Move Ape Escape is a very rushed, cheap cash-in. It has no co-op, no more than three weapons, bad level design, and its extremely repetitive- not something you expect in a shooter or in an Ape Escape game. So stay as far away from PlayStation Move Ape Escape as possible. There will be a main Ape Escape title soon enough- might as well just wait for it rather than waste money on this one.

Ape Escape will be releasing for PS3 this June, Sony’s announced.

It’ll feature support for Playstation Move and will come with three new mini-games and 500 different monkeys to catch and earn points.

The game will feature 15 fun-filled levels for you to explore and catch monkeys in!

The game’s exclusive to PS3 and is being developed in Japan.