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3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: June 28, 2002
Author: Amazon User

It's hard to describe this game. When I first got it, I loved it. But after I beat it about five or six times, it got pretty boring. This is just one of those games with a good concept but it gets ruined by how short it is and how quickly it loses your interest. And, after you beat the first mission, you can except all of the others to be exactly the same. Shooting, shooting, and more shooting. Not that there's anything bad about that but it gets pretty pointless after a while. Rent Metal Slug X and beat it once. But make sure you don't beat it over and over because you will dislike it in no time.

A fun rehash, but little more

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: August 04, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Metal Slug X is, at first look, an amazing side-scroller where one or two players take control of soldiers who move through six missions, shooting and blasting basically everything in sight. The game is amazingly fun for an hour, but after the game is beaten (with infinite continues, I might add,) scrutiny comes into play.

The grpahics are amazingly detailed, and every sprite in the game shows a variety of emotions that add a wonderful comedic style to the game. Soldiers laugh and gasp in disbelief, tanks explode and reveal mechanical innards, and the player's character is always willing to laugh at his or her handy-work. Of course, the graphics are nearly identical to Metal Slug's, with no improvement. Also, when enemies are shot, a white liquid sprays out of their body in place of blood, a paltry attempt at censorship.

Gameplay remains the same. The hero fires weapons picked up along the way, throws grenades, crawls, runs, jumps, and pilots four different types of "Metal Slugs" (a tank, a camel, a jet, and a humanoid tank); all in attempts to beat an evil terrorist leader. Nothing new, but still fun.

The problem comes in if you've played Metal Slug 1. This game is not anywhere near as fun. The first had truly unique challenges, more difficult bosses, and more interesting levels. The sequel throws the player into semi-interesting levels that seem to do nothing more than take up space (now we're in a sewer fighting wall-crawling aliens. Wowwee!!) MSX does deserve credit though: they do add a some new enemies like mummies and aliens and gives two status changes (becoming very fat, which makes your bullets change, but nothing else, and becoming a mummy yourself, where you move very slowly and have limited control), and of course there are the few new Metal Slugs, but that's about it. The game uses mostly old enemies, including a few old bosses and mini-bosses.

Metal Slug X is fun, but little new. Special bonus mini-missions, add little replay value, and you should probably consider renting this before you buy it.

Marco! Eri! Tarma! Fio! ...and their animal friends.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: August 31, 2005
Author: Amazon User

No matter how you play it, Metal Slug has always been fun. Forget the Contra series, Metal Slug is 2D shooting through and through, and it always does it right. In fact, the only bumps in the MS series have been 4 and 5, but even then, they brought something new to the table and were worth a play. Unfortunately, a lot of gamers haven't played the MS series. MS was limited to NeoGeo arcade cabinets and the SNK systems that lacked mainstream success and popularity. Low and behold, the second game in the series was released for PlayStation a few years back. Granted, I'm slow to join on the MS ship, but being able to find and play Metal Slug X was a treat. It ranks as my second favorite in the series, right behind 3, and doesn't have as many frustrating parts as its sequel. In fact, there's hardly anything frustrating about it. If anything, it's how short the game is. But Metal Slug's all about getting the high score, and that's where the true challenge lies.

If you've never played a MS game before, it's simple. You take on the role of one of four soldiers: Marco, Eri, Tarma and Fio, and run around capping members of the opposing force, monsters, beasts, and aliens. It's straight up 2D shooting at its finest. There's no deep storyline to get mixed up in. There's not an FMV after every enemy you kill. And there's not a fully orchastrated soundtrack that twists your heart. All you do is run around, shoot enemies, and free captives. That's all. But as simple as it sounds, there are a lot of challenging things going on while doing this. Just when you think you're about to free a captive, an enemy you just shot stabs you as his final attack as he goes down. Actually, this won't happen as much as getting overwhelmed by the number of soldiers that appear on screen at once. There were tons of times where I'd constantly be jumping just to see where my character was, and had to chuck grenades just to clear a path. That's the other gameplay element that you're probably aware of if you've ever played a shooter- power ups. You start out with a basic pistol and a few grenades, but as you progress, there are A LOT of weapons to be found. Heavy machine guns, rocket launchers (just wait until you hear the announcer pronounce this), shotguns, enemy chasers, lasers, drop shots, Iron Lizards, and more. In addition to this, there are a number of vehicles. The main one is the Metal Slug- a small tank with a machine gun in addition to firing huge shells. It can even jump, which disposes of enemies in an instant. This sucker gives you 3 additional hits before blowing up, which is going to be a godsend more often than not. And get this, you even get animal buddies to help you out. There's the Camel Slug, of whom I've named Preston, who packs a machine gun with endless ammo. The camel rocks out, bobing its head while on the move, and jumps pretty high for some reason. Camels have never been cooler.

Sadly, the game isn't that hard, and can be beaten within an hour. I can't believe I just said that, but after I beat MS3, I was expecting something as challenging as level 5 here. There's not. The most challenging thing you'll get is making it through the last level on the same life in order to get credit for saving the captives. All of the levels can be beaten fairly fast, captives or not, and the bosses have predictable movements. Some of them are pretty cool though, like the robot that attacks from below as you scale a tower, and you have to contantly shoot down while avoiding its shots. Fortunately, the game has a ton of mini-games to play once you've completed it. There's a lot to list, so you'll just have to trust me when I tell you that they're all worth your time. Who knows, you may spend more time playing these than the main game. And the hardcore players out there will of course play until they're satisfied with their final ranking- the game keeps track of how many continues you've used. Christ, I think my first playthrough had 37 or more.

If you've seen one MS game, you know how the graphics are. Everything looks great. Dispite it looking a bit dated, the animations are smooth, and full of emotion. Check out some of the facial expressions on the opposing forces when you stab 'em. And the backgrounds are full of detail. I especially love the final level, with UFOs and planes attacking eachother, neither side truely on top. This is going on while the land below is on fire, and you're taking on a UFO mothership. Priceless. As for the sound, it's the same. The same voices and sound effects are here as they are from any other game in the series. You'll get to hear the pitiful announcer go "RAWKET LAOUNCHAIR!" when you get said power-up, and the screams when someone dies are just as painful as ever. The limited voice samples are a real treat as well. As for the music, I laughed when I first heard it. Not that it's bad, but it screams 80s/early 90s. I kept expecting to hear Poison singing when I'd start a level.

Though it's hard to find now, Metal Slug X is a great addition to any gamer's library. It's not exactly rare, but it's unlikely you're going to see it in any main stores out there. Be sure to pick it up if you were introduced to the series with 3 or the GBA version. This is old school shooting at its finest.

Metal Slug X: SNK's answer to the Contra series

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: August 04, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Metal Slug X is basically a re-release of Metal Slug 2 that originally appeared on the Neo Geo console system. The Metal Slug games play very similar to Konami's classic Contra series. The gameplay is somewhat linear, but undeniably fun. You run around gunning down lots of enemies on a 2D, multi-platform playing field while picking up power ups and saving captured soldiers, ect. The graphics are all hand-drawn and are skillfully animated (each enemy has it's own humorous death sequence)with plenty of color and minimal slow-down during loads of on-screen activity. The music and sound effects are a bit muffled though, but one can't expect stellar sound quality from a port of an old cartridge game anyway. Replay-wise, Metal Slug X provides a few interesting mini-games after you've beaten it, but as with all games of this type, playing the 2-player arcade mode with a friend is the only reason you will want to beat it over and over. If you are a fan of the old classics like Contra and Guerrilla War (for the original NES), you will love Metal Slug X. I would advise those who are less acquainted with the earlier days of gaming to rent it first.

Awesome stuff but too short.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: July 03, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The game is great. Very fast and furious, non-stop action with great animation and humor. But what bugs me is that it's just too short. Altough you get bonus missions when you finish the game... it's not enough. I finished the game plenty of times BUT I WANT MORE !!! But for a normal player it will probably enough. Awesome game, buy it.

I love it!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: September 26, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Metal Slug X-Super Vehicle 001 is Nazca's third run-n'-gun platformer game in the Metal Slug Series. It was first released for arcades and the Neo-Geo in 1999, and was later put on Playstation.

In Metal Slug X, you play as soldier Marco, Tarma, Eri, or Fio fighting against Saddam lookalike Morden's army. You have a variety of power-up weapons, from the homing Enemy Chaser to the crawling Iron Lizard to the powerful Laser Rifle. When you have no weapon, you have a pea-shooter pistol, and if you shoot while close to an enemy, you use a knife or a hatchet to save ammo and for extra points. Levels have nice variety, are well drawn, and have funny little things going on in the background. Graphics are very cartoony, with unbelieveable animation. Enemies don't just robotically attack you, they run away in fear, they cook dinner, they talk with eachother, they even go to the bathroom. Bosses are huge, powerful, and exciting, not even causing any slowdown. Yes, you have infinite continues, but if you want to really beat the game and get true satisfaction, you'll have to do it on one credit.

But the highlight of the game, is the slugs. No, not garden pests, but huge war machines. There are a huge variety for you to drive, or even fly, such as the Plane Slug, the downward-firing Slugnoid, the standard tank Metal Slug, and even the Camel Slug. They each seem to have their own personality-the Metal Slug even flinches when hit!

The game itself is extremely fun and playable, and the multiplayer mode can get quite hectic. If you see it, buy it, but the Neo-Geo version is much better, as expensive as it is.

Metal Slug X

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 31, 2003
Author: Amazon User

this game is absolutley amazing even though it is in 2d it still has all of the things you could expect from any great playstation game. What really won me over on this game was the enemies. There are so many of them coming at you at once you cant help but play the game over and over until you have mastered it. The reason i have given this game 4 stars was because it only has 7 levels. But these levels are incredibly fun and addictive.

Pretty good game overall

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 16, 2003
Author: Amazon User

"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 don't control the camera? I don't need to? Weird."
We can understand a certain degree of confusion on the part of the modern gamer, when exposed to Metal Slug X. It's a near-perfect evolution (graphically speaking, anyway) of a genre already extinct, side-scrolling shooters having fallen by the wayside years ago when some videogame Illuminatus declared that The Future Will Be Owned By Polygons. Heavy sigh. Well, Agetec seems unwilling to let the genre slip away quite yet. The PlayStation version of SNK's superior sequel is now available in the US, and it behooves all fans of classic action gameplay to pick up a copy as soon as possible. It's short, it's simple, and it's not quite the equal of the Neo Geo original, but it's still as sweet a shooter as dollars can buy nowadays. Even if you don't want to make it part of your collection, it's one of the best rental values around. That's because, despite its brilliance, Metal Slug X is a little bit on the shortish side. The five or six levels can be blazed through in a long evening. Every second is packed with action, though, and if you actually want to build your skills and beat the game on one credit, instead of abusing the continues like a weak wimpy girly-mon, you could be playing through the game dozens of times. And that is the appropriate spirit in which to play a classic 2D shooter, of which genre Slug X is one of the premier specimens. The Slug style is far more straightforward than something like the better Contras or Gunstar Heroes -- the emphasis is on hectic action and visual gosh-wow rather than complex patterns and original enemy designs -- but it makes up for what some might consider a dearth of invention with a seemingly unending parade of enemies, weapons, and special vehicles to destroy and destroy with. If you go more than, say, 20 seconds without blowing up something really big in this game, you must be doing something wrong. Even if you get a little tired of the weapons selection (heavy machineguns, shotguns, flamethrowers, lasers, rocket launchers, a strange remote-controlled toy, and more), there's always a Slug to hop into, be it the Slugnoid, Slug Flyer, Camel Slug, or original Metal Slug tank. The vehicles are all of them very cute, and they provide a pleasant change from just running back and forth. The vulcan cannons mow down the bad guys like nobody's business, and the sight of a hopping prehensile-treaded tank remains terribly amusing. The animation in Metal Slug X is better than the PlayStation has any right to produce. The system's RAM limitations necessarily mean a loss of animation frames in comparison to the ridiculous Neo Geo version of the game, but it's still an opulent work of 2D art, with motion and personality packed into every corner possible. Your little SD commando is agile and fluid, and the four different characters have all their own animations. Even the hordes of faceless minions have several different expressions -- they charge forward purposefully, flee in terror screaming, belly-laugh over fallen enemies and then jump with surprise when you pop in another credit and reappear. The backgrounds don't employ quite so much parallax scroll as some recent side-scrollers, but they're spiked with plenty of little bits of animation, and there's more than enough going on in the foreground to grab your attention. Even the smallest bosses fill half the screen, clanking and steaming as they spew fire at you. If this is not the best-looking hand-drawn game ever (which it probably isn't anyway, since there's a Metal Slug 3 on the Neo), it's very possibly the best one to hit the States, given how many of the Saturn's best 2D games remained in Japan. Metal Slug's not likely to wow you with its music tracks, but the riotous effects suite plays a perfect harmony with the graphics. The sound sampling is weaker than the PlayStation is capable of (these are likely the same sounds as the Neo ROM version -- SNK gave up on recompressing audio for its CD titles late in the system's life) but the imperfections are drowned out soon enough by the boom of shotguns, the chatter of heavy machineguns, the scream of knifed baddies, and the explosions echoing here, there, and everywhere.

And people thought 2d was dead....

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 13 / 13
Date: May 31, 2001
Author: Amazon User

SNK have made many masterpieces, Metal Slug, Metal Slug2, King of Fighters 94-2000, and the Fatal Fury series. None of these games are 3d, why? because SNK obviously believe that beautifully hand drawn, and wonderfully playable games are better than either blocky 3d graphics or all graphics no gameplay games. Metal Slug X is no exception to SNK's line of Metal Slugs. The graphics are absolutely fantastic! I just saw a review saying the graphics are very basic, tjis person has no idea. It's 2d, so what! There is so much detail thrown into the backdrops alone that you could play the game over and over just to see new stuff in the scenery. The characters are also fantastic, they have fluid motion and lots of detail. The enemy soldiers have so many little animations, they knfe/gun/grenade you and then point and laugh until you drop down again with a Machinegun, at which point they scream (with a true look of fear on thier faces) and try to run away. The bosses are massive and truly impressive like the battleship on tank tracks, after destroying the guns the front of the ship opens to reveal a MASSIVE GUN which lauches shells the size of your character! It then EJECTS THE SHELL CASE!

Enough on the graphics, theres great platforming in there too. There's also a variety of vehicles. The tank, the Plane, the Jumping mech thing, and the Camel (used for mowing arabs down in the desert). These coupled with the fast paced gameplay and the chaos on screen make for an awesome game. And if you complete it you'll love the ending.

There's the usual extras too, the art gallery and the extra missions. SO BUY IT, NOW!

Wicked 2d Contra style action!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 9
Date: April 14, 2001
Author: Amazon User

After playing the import copy of this game I would just like to let the world know what a fantastic 2d action shooter this game is. If your a fan of great colorful 2d animation, buy Metal Slug, buy it NOW! Not only can you ride in tank and a plane but you get to also ride a camel! A CAMEL!! How messed up is that? Anyways if your a fan of great control, and games that are actually fun, this is for you.

Awesome!

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