Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence is an enhanced edition of the original Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater for PlayStation 2. It introduces a multiplayer mode called Metal Gear Online, featuring five competitive game modes for up to eight players. Participants engage in deathmatches and capture the flag scenarios using elements, stages, and units from the single-player campaign.
Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence continues the Metal Gear Solid series tradition of follow-up enhanced, international version releases.
Subsistence's online multiplayer component, titled Metal Gear Online, consists of five tournament-style game modes, each with a capacity of up to eight players. This mode pits players, each playing as a generic soldier against each other in deathmatch battles and variations of capture the flag, using stages, items, maneuvers, and units (such as the KGB, GRU or Ocelot Unit) from the main game.