![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() However, such giddy anticipation was tempered by a sense of caution, because this new game represents a significant departure for the franchise – it’s the first of the numbered titles that hasn’t made its debut in the arcade (not including the spin-offs such as Metal Slug Advance on the GBA and Metal Slug: First Mission on the Neo-Geo Pocket, of course).įor the uninitiated, the Metal Slug series boasts a premise that is so devilishly simple and straightforward that little explanation is required essentially, you move from one end of the level to the other, pouring thousands of bullets into approaching enemy forces and making use of the various vehicles that dot the landscape (the most notable being the titular Metal Slug, a sort of super-deformed tank). The Wii Anthology went down a storm in the Nintendo Life office and when we became aware of plans for a seventh instalment we became very animated and had trouble getting to sleep at night. As you may already be aware, we’re massive fans of SNK’s Metal Slug series.
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