For the first twenty minutes, I loved Metal Slug 4 intensely. It's been long, too long, since I've played a game of such simplicity. There's no cut-scene-based preamble, no mood building: expect ...

"Huh? What's wrong with this game? How come the characters are all so smooth -- where's the edges, the corners, the aliasing? Hey, where are the polygons? How do I control the camera? What, you mean I ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. When SNK Playmore finds a formula, it tends to stick to it (see King of Fighters XII, Metal Slug 7). The developer's latest entry in the Metal Slug ...

As you may already be aware, we’re massive fans of SNK’s Metal Slug series. The Wii Anthology went down a storm in the Nintendo Life office and when we became aware of plans for a seventh instalment ...

The beloved run-and-gun classic targets a new generation This is paid content. It was written and produced in collaboration with the sponsor. Few side-scrolling shooters have withstood the test of ...

Gamers of a certain age might be familiar with Metal Slug, the ubiquitous and popular second-person arcade shooter. You can play as Marco, the original lead from the franchise (a typical videogame ...

From a technical standpoint, this is a superb version of Metal Slug 3, and in some respects, it's even better than the original. In 2004, it's kind of odd to see a 2D video game that's not being ...

Metal Slug 3, one of the crown jewels in SNK Playmore's retro video game catalog, remains an exciting, well-crafted experience more than a decade after its original Neo Geo release. Charming graphics ...