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Metal Slug | align=center colspan=2|Metal Slug | | align=center colspan=2| | | style=width:80px|Developer: | SNK | | a href="/encyclopedia/Video-game-publisher" title="Video game publisher">Publisher: | SNK | | style=width:80px|Designer: | ??? | | elease date: | May 24, 1996 | | a href="/encyclopedia/Computer-and-video-game-genres" title="Computer and video game genres">Genre: | Scrolling shooter | | ame modes: | Up to 2 players simultaneously | | a href="/encyclopedia/ESRB" title="ESRB">ESRB rating: | not rated | | latform: | Neo-Geo | | edia: | Neo-Geo cartridge | Metal Slug is a series of action-shooter video games for the Neo-Geo game console created by SNK. It has also been ported over to other consoles, such as the PlayStation, the Sega Saturn, the Neo Geo Pocket Color and more recently the Game Boy Advance and Xbox. Gameplay The gameplay is similar to that of the game Contra, in that the player must constantly shoot at a non-stop army of enemies to reach the end of a level. At the end of each level, the player must confront a boss who is often rather large and takes multiple shots to defeat. On the way through the level, the player finds several weapons upgrades (such as heavy machine gun, flamethrower, shotgun and rocket launcher), hand grenades, as well as several "slug" vehicles that can be used not only as weapons but as added defense (This only goes to mechanical slugs, animal slugs do not have any extra defense). Story The first game's story involved the Peregrine Falcon team a.k.a PF Squad (a small but skilled team of soldiers) fighting against the army of General Morden, some sort of Hitler parody. Starting with the second game, they also began to battle an alien threat to Earth, as well as several other supernatural threats such as yetis, zombies and mummies. The fourth game returned to a storyline along the lines of the original game. In the fifth game, the story returned to being outlandish as it was in previous games. Characters The series began with Marco Rossi and Tarma Roving as the only playable characters. In the second installment, Eri Kasamoto and Fio Germi were added to the cast. These four are considered by fans to be the essential Metal Slug team. In the fourth game, Nadia Cassel and Trevor Spacey made their debut as part of the team (replacing Eri and Tarma, respectively), but did not return for later games. Eri and Tarma returned in the fifth game. Public opinion Many fans of the series consider Metal Slug 3 to be the best entry in the series, due to its complex level design (with outstanding pixel art) and comical over-the-top presentation. Metal Slug 4 is often considered by fans to be the least enjoyable game. This could be a fact since Metal Slug 4 was was not published by SNK but Playmore when SNK went bankrupt. Even so, many considerd that Playmore did a horrible job on Metal Slug 4 since it was much shorter and graphicaly inferior to Metal Slug 3. Games - Metal Slug
- Metal Slug 2
- Metal Slug X (an update of Metal Slug 2)
- Metal Slug 3
- Metal Slug: 1st Mission (Neo Geo Pocket Color)
- Metal Slug: 2nd Mission (Neo Geo Pocket Color)
- Metal Slug 4
- Metal Slug 5
- Metal Slug Advance
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