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Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater 3D

Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater 3D is a stealth action game for the Nintendo 3DS. It is a re-release of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. The game was released on February 21, 2012 in North America and on March…

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Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater 3D is an adventure developed by Kojima Productions, released 21 February 2012 on Nintendo 3DS.

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What Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater 3D is

Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater 3D is an adventure game developed by Kojima Productions and released in 2012. It was published by Konami. It is available on Nintendo 3DS only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater is a 2004 action-adventure stealth game developed and published by Konami for the PlayStation 2. It was released in late 2004 in North America and Japan, and in early 2005 in Europe and Australia. Written, produced and directed by Hideo Kojima, the game is the fifth mainline installment in the Metal Gear series and the first chronologically, serving as a prequel to the entire series. Set in 1964, 31 years before the events of the original Metal Gear, the story centers on the FOX operative codenamed Naked Snake as he attempts to rescue Russian rocket scientist Nikolai Stepanovich Sokolov, sabotage an experimental superweapon, and assassinate his defected…
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, stealth and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Metal Gear series

Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater 3D is the 47th of 70 entries we hold in the Metal Gear series. The next entry was PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale in 2012. Its critic score of 74 is 7 points below the series average of 81. The highest-rated entry is Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence at 98.

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How it was received

Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater 3D holds a critic score of 74 out of 100. That places it above 47% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2012 averaged 70, so it scored 4 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater 3D launched on 21 February 2012, within three weeks of Mass Effect 3, Journey, Crusader Kings II and Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Mass Effect 3, Journey, Crusader Kings II, Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward.

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When did Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater 3D come out?
Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater 3D was released on 21 February 2012 for Nintendo 3DS.

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