If you only play one Metal Slug game, you’d be hard pressed to find a better one than Metal Slug X. At the end of each level, you’ll have to fight a boss. You can collect more powerful weapons while you play. You’ll play as Marco a soldier gone rogue.
The remixed soundtrack is a joy to listen to and perfectly punctuated by the sounds of booming shotguns, the rattle of machinegun fire and the screams of your foes. Game Description: Metal Slug 1 is an awesome 2D army-based run & gun game. Gameplay tweaks include more power ups, items and POWs hidden in each level along with additional enemy types and enhanced weaponry to dispatch them. Metal Slug X also brought forth numerous gameplay and design changes to the game.Īesthetically superior to its predecessors, stages throughout the game benefit from new art direction that shifts the time of day from either day or night, to the more atmospheric dusk, twilight or sunset settings. In this case, Metal Slug 2 gets an impressive glow-up with the switch to a modified game engine from Metal Slug 3.
Metal Slug X, in a similar fashion to Metal Slug XX further up this list, takes one of the best Metal Slug games and polishes it to near perfection. Reaching the top of our 10 Best Metal Slug Games of All Time list is Metal Slug X.
