When you walk up to them, once you set them free, they will thank you and either resupply your ammunition and bombs/rockets, or give you one of the available weapon upgrades-which, unlike your pistol, have a limited ammo supply, though.Īll and all, the whole game feels kind of like Wolfenstein ft. The secondary objective is then to release POW taken hostage by Morden’s forces. The primary objective of the game is to battle through six levels, in order to stop the evil General Morden, who allied himself with aliens and organized a coup d’etat against the regular government. Yet the original NEO-GEO cabinet hardware still offered an additional fourth button, even though it wasn’t utilized with Metal Slug 2 in any way. You control the character by an 8-way joystick and three buttons: 1)for shooting, 2)for jump and 3)for throwing a grenade or launching a rocket. The choice between those, however, is merely a matter of ‘visual preference’ and has no impact on the gameplay whatsoever. There are four playable characters, all members of the Peregrine Falcon Squad. Metal Slug 2, a sequel to the arcade classic Metal Slug, is a pretty solid run’n’gun side scrolling shooter, with neat graphics, addictive gameplay and excellent sounds. I’m going to spare you all that and start from the other side of the coin:

Now, because the golden times of the arcade are pretty much gone now and because I’m playing this in an emulator for free, I’m going to spare you this “OMG those greedy devs” crap storm that’s been going on and on in my head for the past forty minutes or so.

Metal slug 6 mame 2017