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The tanks also come in handy with certain boss fights. Jumping with your tank plays a big role through certain levels though as you’ll find yourself having to jump across destroyed enemies remains and sometimes even a destroyed building. Although keep in mind that the tanks aren’t invincible. YES INDEED, you’ll be platforming…with your tank. And the smasher of a feature, jump with your tank. However, these are no ordinary tanks as players will be able to fire cannons from them, utilise a machine gun that you can rotate in a 360-degree angle across the screen with. Throughout certain points and levels in the game, players are able to jump into their own tanks. Players also have artillery bombs which are quite handy when coming up against something like a tank, however, these too are limited in number.
This is a run and gun game, with a timer on every level, so don’t ever expect there to be a calm moment. So it’s always best to save these power-ups for the boss battles. There are quite a number of other power-ups as well, like the shotgun and flamethrowers but unlike the handgun, their ammo is limited. Thankfully, you’ll be able to pick up power-ups or upgrades for your weapons, turning that single bullet handgun into a heavy machine gun and even a rocket launcher. And as mentioned above, enemy tanks and fighter planes obviously require a tad more firepower than your handgun can dish out before they’re shot down and destroyed.
There are however tougher enemies with shields that require a bit more elbow work but nothing a good grenade can’t fix. Thankfully with Metal Slug being such a fast-paced game, enemies can be dispatched as quickly as they appear, with an easy one-shot kill or slice from your knife. This is a run and gun game, with a timer on every level, so don’t ever expect there to be a calm moment, unless you’ve just picked off a boss, but that’s just because the game has to tally up your score and load up the next level. Players jump into the shoes, or rather boots, of a Special Forces unit known as “Peregrine Falcon Squad” to take on a rebel army bent on world domination, and retrieve their stolen weapon known as the Metal Slug.Īlong your path to justice, you’ll have to take on not only foot soldiers but also enemy tanks and even fighter planes soaring above you. This arcade run and gun tests players with manic styled shooting where everything and anything is about to receive a metal slug from you. In the 90s and early 2000s I found myself in a ton of arcades here in South Africa and of course one of the games that everyone must have come across at one point or another, is Metal Slug.