Every second is packed with action, though, and if you actually want to build your skills and beat the game on one credit, instead of abusing the continues like a weak wimpy girly-mon, you could be playing through the game dozens of times.Īnd that is the appropriate spirit in which to play a classic 2D shooter, of which genre Slug X is one of the premier specimens.

The five or six levels can be blazed through in a long evening. Gameplay That's because, despite its brilliance, Metal Slug X is a little bit on the shortish side. Even if you don't want to make it part of your collection, it's one of the best rental values around. It's short, it's simple, and it's not quite the equal of the Neo Geo original, but it's still as sweet a shooter as dollars can buy nowadays. The PlayStation version of SNK's superior sequel is now available in the US, and it behooves all fans of classic action gameplay to pick up a copy as soon as possible.

Well, Agetec seems unwilling to let the genre slip away quite yet. It's a near-perfect evolution (graphically speaking, anyway) of a genre already extinct, side-scrolling shooters having fallen by the wayside years ago when some videogame Illuminatus declared that The Future Will Be Owned By Polygons. We can understand a certain degree of confusion on the part of the modern gamer, when exposed to Metal Slug X.

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