Metal Slug 3 (PS2)

I was loafing through the Supermarket one day and I happened to cross paths with this budget game on the shelf for just £3. Nostalgia took me over for a short time before I quickly purchased the game and started my crazy campaign with Marco and the gang. This game is a 2d arcade game with twists and turns at every stop. It was great fun blasting my way through countless Zombies and hacking GM plants to death but the creme de la creme of this game is the 2 player option. Playing this with a friend is just ultimate fun and makes it 5x more enjoyable. As for its shortness, well you have to remember this was an arcade game which cost money for every "game over" and since my least "game overs" in one round is 18: you can understand how this game feels short to those with endless lives. (play the game and count how many £1 you would have spend in the arcade to get those countless lives after every "game over"). It really does deserve every star it gets! Shows graphics are not the only important thing in a game.

This game is fun while it lasts, which isn't that long actually.There are 5 levels each with quite a bit of exploring in them (secret passages and tunnels and that kind of thing) and each has it's own theme, including a zombie infested camp type place and a desert with mummies and man-eating plants. There are lots of vehicles and weapons aswell like subs, tanks, flamethrowers and shotguns. There are four characters to choose from: Marco, Tarma, Eri and Fio, but not much of a storyline since theres no talking. When you complete the story mode theres still the storming the mothership mode and chubby island modes to keep you going, but after you've done them and repeated the arcade missions on multiplayer a few more times thats about it, although it is fun to have a quick go on now and again. The Graphics are improved a bit but still as you would expect them to be. I don't think theres anyone that doesn't enjoy a bit of 2D shooting now and then though.

a good game but i always seem to find that the metal slugs are all too short, it only has about 5 levels theyre pretty long levels but the problem is there is not too much variation in each level they could have easily added some more levels overall a good game but you wouldn't get caught spending a whole week on this it only takes about 1 hour to complete and once you complete the game there is not really much else to do i am now awaiting the arrival of metal slug on gba and hope this will be an improvement