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this is the BEST!!!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 12
Date: May 15, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I love it!!! its the best it mixes old school 2d graphics with awesome gameplay. And its sortof challenging so it makes it an all around AWESOME game.....I RATE IT A FIVE STAR

Cheesy, monotonous, but FUN

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: May 02, 2005
Author: Amazon User

So if you play xbox occasionally for fun/recreation, and you're not completely needy of story and cohesion - this might be the game for you. It's 2-D, like Contra. Real simple, just go from left to right blasting just about everything that moves. I recommend renting it first perhaps - see if you think it's worth actually owning. I found it fun to just kick back with a beer and a buddy and laugh while playing it; it's really quite funny - one mission you're on some kind of island destroying giant crustaceans, the next your outside some town fighting the undead. You'll die a lot, I mean a lot. It's all good though, going through it over and over again allows you to notice some subtleties that you wouldn't have noticed since you're usually just shooting everything that moves. In the undead mission, the zombies don't just lash at you, some pull out their intestines and squirt stuff at you! It's ridiculously gratuitous and over the top but entertaining nonetheless. If you like 2-D shooters, this is probably the only thing out there for you on the xbox. Not bad, could be a lot better though - the graphics are good but anyone who's played Doom 3 knows what the xbox is capable of.

YEAH I PLAYED IN ARCADE!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: August 16, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I go to like Sportspelex and when i get just one quarter i last for like 3 lvls dudes the game is awsome!!!!!!!!!!!!! wooooot c'mon people shout oh yeah im gonna get the new metal slug 4 and 5 an't that awsome this game so wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwooooooooooooooooooting cool dont y'all think yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy blah blah

AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWESOME!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 18, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Yep another confession: I have a Kawaks version of this and therfore it's not a port. But SNK's dying strength was ALOT MORE than they had done for previous installments. I mean MSX was awesome, but this was perfect! You blow up bosses, kill aliens and.....collect batteries. Yes it's a stupid idea for that last one but you only do that once so don't wig out. This is VERY HARD and pretty gory, and there are 7 new vheicles as well as 3 new weapons: a monkey, a thunder cloud and its variant, the mobile satellite. The final mission is TOO long though but very cool. Oh, and you can be a zombie and vomit blood. Get this game if you like Metal slug, cause there's no game better than this!

The rooting-tooting -shooting,behind-booting game of '04

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 22, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Finally Metal Slug 3 on the X-Box has arrived and it is kicking butt.I enjoy these style of games because it reminds me of when I use to go to the arcade and play Metal Slug 1 and waste all my quarters trying to pass it.Good action/shooter with plenty of gratuitous violence and cool explosions for anyone who was a fan of the old shooter games(Ikari Warriors, Contra) My only beef was the difficulty of this particular game. damn this game is hard and the fact that you only get 5 lives and have to continue from the beginning of the level all the time kind of irritates me.Other than that you will have plenty of fun playing this game.

Who says side-scrolling games are dead?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 02, 2005
Author: Amazon User

These days it seems like consoles and handhelds are trying to pack more and more processing power under the hood to give us ever increasingly realistic 3D environments for racers, first person shooters, sports games and the like. That's all well and good, but sometimes a game that looks really pretty can be really ugly, simply because they spent all that time rendering 3D polygons and never considering whether it was fun to play.

On the other hand, there are games like Metal Slug 3. These days it's hard to find any company willing to take a risk on a flat 2D or side-scrolling game, let alone a modern console manufacturer who wants it as a title unless it's a "retro" greatest hits set like Midway Arcade Classics. Metal Slug 3 is a happy exception, a game which recalls the finer days of your youth when there was nothing better than playing Contra or Rush'n'Attack. Are modern systems too powerful for such simple concepts? Not at all. This games is beautifully rendered, smooth scrolling, action packed and at times downright funny (in one underwater scene you're attacked by giant eels named "Helen" and "Linda").

This title lives up to the old Atari credo that games should be simple to learn but difficult to master. You will not beat Metal Slug 3 in one sitting, but you'll have a literal BLAST running around blowing things up over and over, getting better with each attempt. Kudos to SNK/Playmore for producing it and to Microsoft for releasing it. It's a shame more companies don't take the chance on games like Metal Slug 3 and Alien Hominid that as fun to play as they are cool to watch, all in a gloriously flat perspective. If someone tells you 2D isn't cool any more, hand them a controller and watch how much they enjoy this game.

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