This is disappointing, as Snake Eater was one of the games I was kind of looking forward to. I've unfortunately found Peace Walker to be virtually unplayable given the wacky control scheme, and it sounds like Snake Eater 3D is falling into the same pit (of snakes). I'm also disappointed that everything is still brown...that made the PS2 game harder than it should've been, and I thought it was because of the bad textures and character models, but maybe not so much.

I've been interested in this game, since I haven't played it on the PS2, but I'm afraid I may want to just wait for it on the compilation disc for HD systems (Wii U?).

IDK about this title. I heard RFN talk about it briefly on there podcast and was a little worried with James' talk about the game being in pretty bad shape, but I was glad I read this article for more information. I played Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops on my PSP (Worst purchase of my life by the way) and was one of three games that kept me from losing it thanks to the lack of titles on the system. The way James Describes the controls in the article is very similar to how Portable Ops played, except with the weapon select being on the touch screen instead of taking a button slot. Now, because Metal Solid 3 is my favorite Metal Gear Solid of the bunch as well as one of my favorite games of all time (the Subsistence Version Anyways), this was going to be a huge reason for me to get a 3DS, but the other thing is this: They are already re-releasing Metal Gear Solid 3 in the Metal Gear Solid HD Collections with Metal Gear Solid 2 and Peace Walker, so I think this will depend on what the game get's on the review sides. If the game does well enough and I don't hear people complaining about the controls and they expand on the games mulitplayer and keep the additions found in Subsistence plus some, then I will most likely still purchase this game. If however, there is nothing new in the game and they don't even bother to include the extras found in Subsistence like the Mulitplayer and Boss Challanges, then I might wait for a price drop on this one. I still want to try it for myself, but I really don't know if this game will be a system seller for me or not anymore :(

Just FYI, Jarvis, if you thought Portable Ops had bad controls, you should know that Peace Walker had somehow WORSE controls. So much worse that I stopped playing it and I'm just going to buy the HD collection.

@Halbred: I haven't played Peace Walker, so I wouldn't really know how bad they where, although if they are worse then Portable Ops, that could be a bad thing. I don't know, I guess I will wait for it to come out and see what people see. At this rate, it doesn't even look like I will be getting a 3DS till after my fall semester of school anyways, so I have some time to hear what people have to say.