There are new weapons all over the place, and you get them by saving prisoners of war. They begin with a standard pea shooter pistol so its necessary to find bigger weapons and quick! Metal Slug 3 doesn’t just let you ignore enemies, it will lock the screen in place until you take them out.
You can still crouch and jump, but you can easily get overwhelmed. You’re there to shoot things dead, not dodge projectiles. The real challenge is that the characters just aren’t nimble. These four characters feel important by the end of the game, or at least one does anyway. You start by selecting from one of four characters. Machine guns can still manage to shoot 8 ways, but only if you’re transitioning from left to up. I suppose I’m just used to Contra where you have 8 way shooting. The sad part is that you seem to shoot in only four directions. If you’re close enough to something you’ll melee it instead of shooting. Even with heavy machine guns and larger rapid fire weapons, one button press might release a lot of bullets, but those bullets end unless you hit the button again. You can’t just hold the attack button for rapid fire oh no, where’s the challenge in that? You need to keep pressing. The controls are simple, you’ve got a jump, attack (shoot) and bomb throw buttons. Every time you use your final life, a heavy machine gun icon drops to give you more incentive to pump in another quarter to even the odds against the enemies. Each continue doesn’t restart a level though, it only drops you back into the game. You can select the amount of continues in the settings. This version of Metal Slug 3 makes it easier with unlimited continues. You’ve heard of NES hard, well then there’s arcade hard. You can even look for matches, but well, there weren’t any when I looked. You can even bring a friend with two player simultaneous online coop. Its a great level of detail that gives the game its overwhelming charm and enjoyment. These aren’t just aliens, they’re squid aliens with lasers and retro 1950s robot that you can turn into junk piles. These zombies don’t just swarm you, they vomit on you and turn you into a zombie and die. In today’s video game landscape, zombies and aliens sound mundane like its almost expected now, but with Metal Slug 3’s fantastic graphics and animation, these enemies have a style that stands out from the pack. Sure you’re a hard nosed warrior with a gun trekking through hostile territory, but you’re facing not only well animated soldiers, helicopters and tanks, but giant crabs, yeti, gruesome zombies and squid aliens. Metal Slug 3 is from a long franchise of 2D run and gun games known for their beautiful animation, graphics and over the top crazy sort of silliness.
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