01-20-2007, 01:06 PM
2.3 Metal Slug: Anthology
If anyone is looking for some solid, heart pounding, hectic, old-school shooter action, you struck gold on this one.
If anyone's played Metal Slug before, you already know what this game will consist of. There's nothing really added onto this game aside from the Metal Slug X game, which plays almost identically to Metal Slug 3. There is a Gallery available which lets you view art from the games, play music from them, and watch an interview with the the games' staff including Lead Designer and development manager which are unlocked by earning tokens in gameplay by attaining scores and saving captured men. The interview is however all writing instead of video Q&A which kills how good it could've been.
The graphics and sounds are all ripped straight from the original games. I swear it's just like playing the original Metal Slug in the arcade. There's nothing new there. The controls on the other hand are new. There's a list of choices on how you want to play Metal Slug. You can hold the remote side ways a la NES VC games; use the nunchuk joystick to move and buttons on the remote for shooting and jumping; use just the nunchuk to move, shoot, jump and "toss" the nunchuk for grenades; hold the remote horizontally and tilt it for motions; plug in a GC controller; or the oddest by far use the nunchuk buttons for shooting and jumping while holding the remote up like a joystick and tilting it for movement. Most of the control schemes are pretty hard to handle though, especially when the remote offers no resistance unlike normal arcade joysticks and exact motions are hard to get down. That just doesn't work in a game where jumping and moving through flying bullets is a must.
As many people probably know, Metal Slug is not the easiest of games. This has been adjusted by adding 3 difficulty setting in the main menu along with a feature allowing for unlimited continues. With unlimited continues, the game could be beaten relatively shortly, but with the added difficulty of limited continues and this could take you awhile. I may suck pretty bad at these games, but they always manage to be a blast to play, even if a little frustrating at times.
Graphics: B
Sound: B
Originality/Story: C+
Gameplay: B
Overall: B
If anyone is looking for some solid, heart pounding, hectic, old-school shooter action, you struck gold on this one.
If anyone's played Metal Slug before, you already know what this game will consist of. There's nothing really added onto this game aside from the Metal Slug X game, which plays almost identically to Metal Slug 3. There is a Gallery available which lets you view art from the games, play music from them, and watch an interview with the the games' staff including Lead Designer and development manager which are unlocked by earning tokens in gameplay by attaining scores and saving captured men. The interview is however all writing instead of video Q&A which kills how good it could've been.
The graphics and sounds are all ripped straight from the original games. I swear it's just like playing the original Metal Slug in the arcade. There's nothing new there. The controls on the other hand are new. There's a list of choices on how you want to play Metal Slug. You can hold the remote side ways a la NES VC games; use the nunchuk joystick to move and buttons on the remote for shooting and jumping; use just the nunchuk to move, shoot, jump and "toss" the nunchuk for grenades; hold the remote horizontally and tilt it for motions; plug in a GC controller; or the oddest by far use the nunchuk buttons for shooting and jumping while holding the remote up like a joystick and tilting it for movement. Most of the control schemes are pretty hard to handle though, especially when the remote offers no resistance unlike normal arcade joysticks and exact motions are hard to get down. That just doesn't work in a game where jumping and moving through flying bullets is a must.
As many people probably know, Metal Slug is not the easiest of games. This has been adjusted by adding 3 difficulty setting in the main menu along with a feature allowing for unlimited continues. With unlimited continues, the game could be beaten relatively shortly, but with the added difficulty of limited continues and this could take you awhile. I may suck pretty bad at these games, but they always manage to be a blast to play, even if a little frustrating at times.
Graphics: B
Sound: B
Originality/Story: C+
Gameplay: B
Overall: B
