>>717855776
snake eater is when metal gear completely gave up on being a stealth game, guards barely put up a fight compared to 1/2, you have a ton of weapons to run and gun like the shotgun and the rambo gun, and even if you want to not kill people every snake eater map is a bunch of big open areas so you can headshot people with silenced tranq from 10 miles away and none of the guards care while in MGS2 they at least tried to balance tranq with narrow sightlines, small rooms so guards constantly patrol past sleeping bodies, and guards having to call in every few minutes or an alert is instantly called.
camo also means that often instead of actually having to avoid the guards and figure out their routes you can just put the right colors on while crouching and slowwalk your way through the enemy base