"Collectable cards? Bah, humbug!" you shout as a clamor arises in your house. There's also, contrary to the one-hit-kills of Metal Slug Advances' predecessors, a health meter, and unlimited continues. There's over a dozen weapons to use, a multitude of enemies to dispatch (or dispatch you), two playable characters, the ever-fun, versatile, and appropriately-named Metal Slug tank, five long levels with branching paths, and over a hundred collectable cards that add to replay value immensely. It's Contra-esque run-and-gun mechanics feel old-school with a sexy coat of paint, and the difficulty level is appropriately challenging. Gameplay is, at its core, mostly unchanged from previous games. This is actually a brand new game, a new entry in a series that has yet to disappoint its fans. Animation is excellent, as goofy or realistic as the developers intended (and they do intend both).īut this isn't just a port of one of the Metal Slug titles. Although some of the effects are noticeably toned down here (explosions are a bit less intense, there's no blood) everything else is pretty well perfectly preserved. It's nice to see that the Game Boy Advance is more than capable of carrying the Metal Slug torch honorably. The small screen - or more importantly, the guts behind it - couldn't quite offer up the speed and fluidity and detail that the series is known for. Although the developers tried to translate the Metal Slug spirit into that game, it wasn't quite the same. SNK's little franchise, a wonderful little action game, first impressed gamers on the Neo-Geo, but has since visited other consoles, including the Xbox and PS2 and, in its short lifespan, the Neo-Geo Pocket Color. Metal Slug has been around for seemingly ages.
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