Metal Slug is a "better seen once" game. Shooter with super graphics, cartoon animation and amazing humor. The authors really managed to make a funny war. To familiarize - it is obligatory!
The history of Metal Slug begins long before the release of the first part of this most popular series. The same team that created this game, under the leadership of the Japanese company Irem, created a series of hits on the hardware of the M92 assault rifle: Gunforce (1991), In the Hunt (1993) and Gunforce II (1994). The latest game is often called "Metal Slug Zero" by true Metal Slug fans. Indeed, the gameplay, sounds, animation - many things in these games testify to the relationship with Metal Slug. Borrowing a lot of finds from the creation of Irem, the game from Nazca nevertheless introduces a number of innovations that turned another masterpiece into a hit.
2026 year. The world has come face to face with the threat of global terrorism. Small, but extremely numerous and well-organized groupings of Uprising terrorists are opposed by a powerful, well-armed Regular Army. One of the important officers of the RA, General of the Marine Corps Donald Morden, who has a reputation as an excellent officer and a loving father, loses his son as a result of a fatal mistake by the intelligence services and the negligence of the army's high command, mired in corruption and bribery. General Morden starts his own war against RA and becomes the head of the Rebellion. Under his leadership, the troops of the Rebellion, replenished with defectors and weapons, turn into a formidable force and begin preparations for a massive attack on the units and bases of the RA around the world. Despite the available intelligence about the intentions of the Rebellion, the highest ranks of the RA did not take care to take appropriate countermeasures. As a result, the leadership of the Republic of Armenia, caught unawares by the offensive of the terrorists, urgently begins to prepare belated plans for a counteroffensive against the forces of the Rebellion. To this end, the development of a top-secret program to create a powerful offensive weapon under the code name SV-001 has begun at a rapid pace. However, through an oversight, most of the batch of finished weapons falls into the hands of the Rebellion. Having lost the last hope, RA is falling apart before our eyes. But in this difficult time, there were people who were ready to repulse the enemy. Marco Rossi, First Lieutenant of the Pilgrim Falcons Special Forces, together with his brother-in-arms Tarma Roving, are gathering together the last forces of the RA to organize a counteroffensive against the troops of Morden. Caught by surprise by the terrorist offensive, the leadership of the Republic of Armenia urgently begins to prepare belated plans for a counteroffensive against the forces of the Rebellion. To this end, the development of a top-secret program to create a powerful offensive weapon under the code name SV-001 has begun at a rapid pace. However, through an oversight, most of the batch of finished weapons falls into the hands of the Rebellion. Having lost the last hope, RA is falling apart before our eyes. But in this difficult time, there were people who were ready to repulse the enemy. Marco Rossi, First Lieutenant of the Pilgrim Falcons Special Forces, together with his brother-in-arms Tarma Roving, are gathering together the last forces of the RA to organize a counteroffensive against the troops of Morden. Caught by surprise by the terrorist offensive, the leadership of the Republic of Armenia urgently begins to prepare belated plans for a counteroffensive against the forces of the Rebellion. To this end, the development of a top-secret program to create a powerful offensive weapon under the code name SV-001 has begun at a rapid pace. However, through an oversight, most of the batch of finished weapons falls into the hands of the Rebellion. Having lost the last hope, RA is falling apart before our eyes. But in this difficult time, there were people who were ready to repulse the enemy. Marco Rossi, First Lieutenant of the Pilgrim Falcons Special Forces, together with his brother-in-arms Tarma Roving, are gathering together the last forces of the RA to organize a counteroffensive against the troops of Morden. To this end, the development of a top-secret program to create a powerful offensive weapon under the code name SV-001 has begun at a rapid pace. However, through an oversight, most of the batch of finished weapons falls into the hands of the Rebellion. Having lost the last hope, RA is falling apart before our eyes. But in this difficult time, there were people who were ready to repulse the enemy. Marco Rossi, First Lieutenant of the Pilgrim Falcons Special Forces, together with his brother-in-arms Tarma Roving, are gathering together the last forces of the RA to organize a counteroffensive against the troops of Morden. To this end, the development of a top-secret program to create a powerful offensive weapon under the code name SV-001 has begun at a rapid pace. However, through an oversight, most of the batch of finished weapons falls into the hands of the Rebellion. Having lost the last hope, RA is falling apart before our eyes. But in this difficult time, there were people who were ready to repulse the enemy. Marco Rossi, First Lieutenant of the Pilgrim Falcons Special Forces, together with his brother-in-arms Tarma Roving, are gathering together the last forces of the RA to organize a counteroffensive against the troops of Morden.
Initially, you have at your disposal only a 50AE pistol with unlimited ammo and a dozen German Stielhandgranaten 24 Mallet offensive grenades. During the game, you will also have at your disposal: the HV-01 machine gun, the RK-02 rocket launcher, the FS-03 flamethrower, the SG-04 shotgun, as well as the heavy machine gun that occasionally comes across on your way and, of course, the SV-001 "Metal Slug " (so named because of its resemblance to a reptile slug), the same stolen secret RA development that gave the name to the entire series, a jumping tank equipped with a 12.6mm Vulcan anti-aircraft machine gun and with a 127mm gun on board. The soldiers of General Morden will fight against you as foot soldiers, equipped with various types of firearms, grenades, knives that they use in close combat, armored shields for defense, and armored vehicles: tanks, self-propelled guns, planes, helicopters. The enemy will rain down on you from all sides of the screen one by one and in groups in trucks and parachutes.
Morden's army, riding around in World War II German armored vehicles with Nazi-like symbols, is most similar to caricatured Nazis. During the game, you will more than once free prisoners of war captured by the enemy, and they, in gratitude to you, will extract various usefulness from their underpants, from bonuses to weapons. There are only six missions in the game with beautiful backgrounds, excellently animated characters (don't forget that the color of blood changes to the standard one in the machine's BIOS menu), as well as excellent voice acting, music and a lot of destructible objects. The deliberate caricature of the characters and sparkling humor, combined with excellent graphics, are the hallmarks of the entire Metal Slug series, which ensured its immortality. In addition to NeoGeo MVS/AES, Metal Slug has also been ported to GameBoy Advance platforms,