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a perfect arcade game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 11
Date: January 18, 2004
Author: Amazon User

An amazing arcade game that doesnt get boring. Need I say more?

fun

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 12
Date: January 23, 2004
Author: Amazon User

run around shoot people, blow stuff up, get cool weapons what more could you ask from a game.

ITS GOING TO BE SO AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 23
Date: July 22, 2004
Author: Amazon User

THIS OLD NEOGEO GAME METAL SLUG IS COMIN BAK!!!! I HAD PLAYED THE OTHER METAL SLUGS AND THEY WERE GREAT. THEY WERE TONS OF FUN AND I PLAYED IT ALL DAY WITH MY FRIEND. NOW ITS COMIN TO GAMEBOY ADVANCE(AND XBOX)! IT CANT GET ANY BETTER. YOU GET TO GET MANY GUNS TO SHOOT AT MANY ENEMIES, GREAT BOSSES, GREAT GRAPHICS, GREAT GAMEPLAY, AND, WELL, GREAT GAME!! I CANT WAIT TO GET THIS GAME AND ITS A GOOD PRICE FOR SUCH A GREAT GAME. THIS IS HOURS AND TONS OF FUN. I THINK U CAN EVEN PLAY WITH UR FRIEND BY LINKING TWO GAMEBOY ADVANCE SYSTEMS AND HAVE FUN!! THIS GAME IS TO SCREAM FOR. THIS GAME IS GREAT FOR ANY GAMERS. IF U HAVENT PLAYED METAL SLUG BEFORE THEN GET OFF UR BUTT AND BUY ANY KIND OF METAL SLUG GAME AND SEE HOW FUN IT IS. THIS IS LIKE ONE OF THE BEST GAME OF THE SUMMER.

Metal Slug Fan

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 15
Date: July 31, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is really good. I, for one, am a newby to the Metal Slug fan club (LOL). This game is a match made in heaven for gameboy advanced. It has great gun wars and it is just like the arcade game or the one for Xbox. It has the monsters. It has the zombies and the flying guts when you shoot them. The game has no flaws. I would preffer this game for a mediocre-hardcore player for Gameboy Advanced.

a new layer of entretainment for the gameboy advance

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 15
Date: October 06, 2004
Author: Amazon User

this game promises everything you might expect from a game boy game on steroids! never gets old shoting stuff awsome level design,cool consept,tight controls, and FUN! drivable veichles are cool this game is a master piece and if you like action games this is for you. IN OTHER WORDS IF YOU DONT BUY THIS GAME I WILL LOSE ALL RESPECT FOR YOU AND PUNCH YOU. BUY THIS GAME NOW!

Great, ReRelease for the GBA!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: November 12, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This long wanted rerelease of the great neogeo classic metalslug, that i tried to get an emulator of for the past 7 years, is a really, really, really fun game!It's like a 2D shooter...

So way to go on this great Rerelase SNK!

True to Metal Slug

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 12, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is a Metal Slug game and everything that comes with that. Insane shooting, non stop action and zany humour. I've been a Metal Slug fan for a years and this game lives up to the Metal Slug name.

A great addition to the series

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: December 15, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Metal Slug Advance is the best possible realization of SNK's run-and-shoot series on the GBA. It is a technical marvel; the rich, over-exaggerated animation that made the series stand out in arcades is achieved with vastly inferior hardware. This portable entry in the series suffers only rare slowdown and a few lost frames of animation.

While the game looks like the early arcade entries, the gameplay is modified to fit a handheld. A health bar replaces the arcade's one-hit death system. The arcade versions of Metal Slug can be conquered in less than an hour given a few pockets full of quarters. (Or a PC capable of emulating the hardware.) Metal Slug Advance addresses the inherent brevity of their rich worlds with an adroit card collection system. Cards are hidden throughout the game worlds. Most of the cards are trinkets, but others provide benefits like increasing the armor for your vehicles or doubling your ammo supply for a weapon. The catch is that in order to keep the cards you collect in a level, you must complete that level without continuing. For the first time in the series I'm forced to consider the best approach to surviving levels and I end up appreciating the game mechanics more than my virtual quarter-munching practices allowed before. Less obsessive-compulsive players can abandon card collecting and leverage an infinite number of continues to power through the game, but the benefits from the power-up cards can make an aggressively challenging experience more approachable.

There are small aggravations that reveal some shortcomings in the design. While the health bar is a welcome addition, falling into a pit still causes an automatic death; it feels a bit unfair when you're "juggled" into a pit after being hit by an enemy attack. The frequency that the enemies respawn can be quite troubling when you're dodging enemy attacks by moving to the left and right, only to re-introduce defeated enemies as you scroll the screen. Without careful play, you can end up facing a never ending barrage of foes in some areas.

Metal Slug Advance does not stray far from familiar ground, but it is the only handheld version of the series that approaches the wacky, chaotic bliss that imbues the arcade editions. SNK demonstrated with the Neo Geo Pocket Color that it understands handheld game design at least as well as Nintendo. Metal Slug Advance is their first title on Nintendo hardware to continue that legacy.

Metal Slug advance

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: December 20, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Metal slug is a great game with good graphics, and music. It's an action packed shooter, with cool enimeis and great expsoshins. i reccomend this game for a metal slug fan, or a shoot em up fan. The only reason i gave this game 4 stars is because you die to easily and the bosses can get a little annoying.

Great game, but sometimes a bit frustrating

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 27, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is absolutely great. Its extremely fun running around and shooting and grenading and blowing things up all throughout the level. And although sometimes the levels are hard, they usually become quite easy to beat once you play them a few times. but them comes the tricky part. You spent a lot of time and effort to get to the boss. your doing just fine and it looks like you just might beat the boss. Then, when it looks like you've won, the boss goes wacko and promptly attempts a series of attacks which are practicly imposible to dodge. You die, the Mission Failed screen comes up, and you have to go through the level all over again.

This is what makes the game really frustrating for me and why I rated it a 4 even though it is exellent in every way.

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