Metal Gear Solid Delta’s sound team explains the remake’s audio design in GameMakers interview

Metal Gear Solid Δ: Snake Eater’s sound team discusses the remake’s design philosophy in an in-depth Japanese interview with GameMakers. We recommend reading it for a closer look at how Delta’s audio was rebuilt while preserving the original game’s identity.

The team describes sound as part of the infiltration experience: helping us judge where enemies are and what is happening around Snake. More than 60 physical materials received distinct contact sounds, including footsteps, ricochets, shell casings, and knife impacts.

Many effects were recreated, while recognizable sounds such as the alert and Kerotan effects were retained. Much of the original music also remains, alongside new recordings and arrangements.

Development used Unreal Engine 5.2, Wwise, and Yamaha’s Sound xR Core. The interview explains how the team balanced positional headphone audio with the original sound’s character, mixing processed and unprocessed audio rather than applying the same treatment everywhere.

GameMakers labels the interview as PR content. The full Japanese article is linked below.

Sources: Full GameMakers interview in Japanese · GameMakers’ original announcement · Our original post on X