
It has everything you're looking for: action, variety, madness and tremendous final bosses. It is a 100% essential game for shoot'em up fans. Metal Slug X was, is and we bet will also be a referent in its genre. In MSX, all the mistakes you make will be your responsibility and no one else's. Once the game has revealed all its secrets, it will be up to you to make good use of them.

You'll learn to shoot in all directions, climb on vehicles or jump in a matter or minutes. Metal Slug X's controls are simple and precise. For instance, the enemies will make fun of you when you die but they'll be screaming with terror when they see that you have just revived. The movements of characters (main, secondary and even tertiary characters) are very carefully done, especially in the case of the final bosses. Every second, thousands of details happen on the screen. Hell can be a lot of funĪlthough it's a game from 1999, Metal Slug X is still visually amazing. However, the game surprises you even when you thought you had already passed it: you have many additional modes, such as the Combat School Mode that invites you to replay previous levels with new goals. Once you have mastered Metal Slug X, it's possible that you will pass it right away. But everything has a price: Metal Slug X will laugh at the number of times you've died until you can finish the adventure. Fortunately, the game is conscious of its difficulty and allows you to choose infinite continuations. You'll die many times, since the enemies will not stop attacking you. It's impossible for you to finish Metal Slug X at the first attempt. You'll die many times because you'll be paying more attention to the details happening on the screen than to what's happening to your character! To begin with, get ready for literally rampant action: one minute you'll be aboard a jet plane destroying a moving train and the next you'll be climbing a tower while escaping from a monster-shaped robot.īut the action is not the only thing that will vary in the game: eat too much fruit and you'll turn into an obese but mortal hero once in a while you'll run into vehicles that radically change playability and don't forget the enormous final bosses, which are also true visual spectacles.

In spite of its simple premise, Metal Slug X will keep on surprising you.
