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A super tiny Metal Slug Mobile review in my paper today http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,1187549,00.html
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Tiny Metal Slug Mobile Review
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Just a note to anyone with the same service at me, Metal Slug Mobile came to Verizon's Get It Now service just like the King of Fighters Mobile. I've only played for a couple minutes but already is worth 6 bucks to me 
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FormlessOne
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I got the KOF demo before I dling it, and I'm glad I did cuz it sucks. I hope MS has a demo so I can avoid wasting 6 bux if it's garbage.
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FormlessOne said:
No demo on this one unfortunately.
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Where can i download the slug game?? i have Sprint.. and i just looked at the whole game list... no Slug game yet...
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I just bought it, and I can't figure out how to get past the fuckin tower. I haven't even shot anthing yet 
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Gave it a play through today, will be writing up a review because I'm bored if anyone cares for my opinion.
Short review:
Looks good
Stiff Controls
Good Music but no music in game I don't think
Ok but quiet SFX
No Bosses
Short review:
Looks good
Stiff Controls
Good Music but no music in game I don't think
Ok but quiet SFX
No Bosses
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Atrophyed said:Judging by the graphics it looks very NGPC'ish
Except with 123443532523646789345 more colors.
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Atrophyed said:Judging by the graphics it looks very NGPC'ish
It is very NGPCish in both graphics and gameplay. More tonight when I get home from work
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Damn..i have a Sprint / Sanyo #SCP-8100(s)
not on the list yet,,strange my phone seems to get most games..
I want to really try this out...
not on the list yet,,strange my phone seems to get most games..
I want to really try this out...
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Review of Metal Slug Mobile
Story
Raw Recruit Marco Rossi, your orders are to destroy the rebel army's command and control capacity and free the prisoners,
Controls
Marco
4 Move left
6 Move right
2 Jump
8 Crouch
5 Fire Weapon
1 Fire up
Metal Slug
4 Move left
6 Move right
2 Jump
8 Crouch
5 Fire Vulcan
1 Fire Cannon (needs ammo)
# will pause your game
* toggles sound effects on and off
Overall the controls are pretty clunky. Hard to dodge gunfire and tough to get to the right level to fire back at enemies, the best bet is usually to take the hits and just stab your foes.
Characters:
Characters
Marco Rossi
The only character for you to play as in this iteration of Metal Slug.
Weapons
Knife: Your close range killer one stab for the grunts and its all over.
H: I assume Handgun as it is not the Heavy Machine Gun that its big brother has, it fires a single shot in the 4 directions per button press.
M: Machine Gun can fired continuously by holding down 5 is the only upgrade for Marco during the game
C: Cannon for the Metal Slug only, nothing much to be said here.
Sound
While there is some great sounding typical Metal Slug Mission 1 music, its unfortunate that this only plays during the title screen as far as I can tell.
Sound effects seem ok there is a gunshot noise, a knife noise, and a dying grunt noise is all I could distinguish. Why you ask? Because for some reason while the music is nice and loud, the sound effects are immensely quiet, and are mostly drowned out by the beeping of the button presses.
Items
Aside from weapons you can find a few other items to help you out.
Collect a frog for 300 points or a toilet paper roll for 400 points
Kill enemies to get loafs of bread, health kits, or gas containers to restore your health.
Grab Shields to get a rank promotion or a Coin to add a continue.
Enemies
A variety of grunts are in this game most will be familiar especially if you've played the NGPC variants of Metal Slug. Handgun grunts, Bazooka grunts, sword grunts that hang down out of the trees.
Then you have enemy vehicles
One form of a tank and one form of a helicopter is all you'll run into in this one.
Vehicles
On the note of vehicles, the only slug that Marco will get to pilot in this short mission is the Metal Slug, the classic tank can still jump, duck, and rotate its machine gun with all the same clunkyness that the controls give to Marco
Hostages
Along the way you will have to rescue hostages, I'm assuming there are no hidden hostages and the most I have gotten per stage is 5, they actually don't even give you anything.
Gameplay
Mostly akin to the NGPC slugs in style and gameplay this Slug has Missions taking place outside, in the jungle, and two in the Metal Slug. The weirdest thing about this slug is, no bosses. Not even one, this isn't like the NGPC slug that has a few bosses and some levels you just run through. There are zero bosses. The toughest it will get are spots where the screen will stop scrolling and you will have a few baddies or a couple helicopters to destroy before moving on.
The life system is managed also like the NGPC slugs thankfully, due to the controls, you will get hit a lot, you will also get lots of bread to keep you alive. After each mission you gain life (I'm not sure quite yet if this is directly related to how many shields you have picked up i.e. your rank)
Fortunately just as you will noticed that at the peak of your jump if you want to keep moving right you will stop and have to repress right to keep movie, the bad guys seem to have the same dilemma. Grunts will just stop and fall midair not completing any sort of normal arch, at one point one of the 'stop points' every grunt that hops out does this, making this stop point stupid easy to get through.
I think I'm done, let me know if you have any questions. On the whole as a game its suckalicious, but as a cell phone game is pretty good. Worth 6 bucks? Up to you, it helps that my mom usually just pays the cell phone bill for me
Overall for me a 7/10 considering its a cell phone game, controls could've been better but they also couldn't have been much better.
This review is dedicated to Nick.
Story
Raw Recruit Marco Rossi, your orders are to destroy the rebel army's command and control capacity and free the prisoners,
Controls
Marco
4 Move left
6 Move right
2 Jump
8 Crouch
5 Fire Weapon
1 Fire up
Metal Slug
4 Move left
6 Move right
2 Jump
8 Crouch
5 Fire Vulcan
1 Fire Cannon (needs ammo)
# will pause your game
* toggles sound effects on and off
Overall the controls are pretty clunky. Hard to dodge gunfire and tough to get to the right level to fire back at enemies, the best bet is usually to take the hits and just stab your foes.
Characters:
Characters
Marco Rossi
The only character for you to play as in this iteration of Metal Slug.
Weapons
Knife: Your close range killer one stab for the grunts and its all over.
H: I assume Handgun as it is not the Heavy Machine Gun that its big brother has, it fires a single shot in the 4 directions per button press.
M: Machine Gun can fired continuously by holding down 5 is the only upgrade for Marco during the game
C: Cannon for the Metal Slug only, nothing much to be said here.
Sound
While there is some great sounding typical Metal Slug Mission 1 music, its unfortunate that this only plays during the title screen as far as I can tell.
Sound effects seem ok there is a gunshot noise, a knife noise, and a dying grunt noise is all I could distinguish. Why you ask? Because for some reason while the music is nice and loud, the sound effects are immensely quiet, and are mostly drowned out by the beeping of the button presses.
Items
Aside from weapons you can find a few other items to help you out.
Collect a frog for 300 points or a toilet paper roll for 400 points
Kill enemies to get loafs of bread, health kits, or gas containers to restore your health.
Grab Shields to get a rank promotion or a Coin to add a continue.
Enemies
A variety of grunts are in this game most will be familiar especially if you've played the NGPC variants of Metal Slug. Handgun grunts, Bazooka grunts, sword grunts that hang down out of the trees.
Then you have enemy vehicles
One form of a tank and one form of a helicopter is all you'll run into in this one.
Vehicles
On the note of vehicles, the only slug that Marco will get to pilot in this short mission is the Metal Slug, the classic tank can still jump, duck, and rotate its machine gun with all the same clunkyness that the controls give to Marco
Hostages
Along the way you will have to rescue hostages, I'm assuming there are no hidden hostages and the most I have gotten per stage is 5, they actually don't even give you anything.
Gameplay
Mostly akin to the NGPC slugs in style and gameplay this Slug has Missions taking place outside, in the jungle, and two in the Metal Slug. The weirdest thing about this slug is, no bosses. Not even one, this isn't like the NGPC slug that has a few bosses and some levels you just run through. There are zero bosses. The toughest it will get are spots where the screen will stop scrolling and you will have a few baddies or a couple helicopters to destroy before moving on.
The life system is managed also like the NGPC slugs thankfully, due to the controls, you will get hit a lot, you will also get lots of bread to keep you alive. After each mission you gain life (I'm not sure quite yet if this is directly related to how many shields you have picked up i.e. your rank)
Fortunately just as you will noticed that at the peak of your jump if you want to keep moving right you will stop and have to repress right to keep movie, the bad guys seem to have the same dilemma. Grunts will just stop and fall midair not completing any sort of normal arch, at one point one of the 'stop points' every grunt that hops out does this, making this stop point stupid easy to get through.
I think I'm done, let me know if you have any questions. On the whole as a game its suckalicious, but as a cell phone game is pretty good. Worth 6 bucks? Up to you, it helps that my mom usually just pays the cell phone bill for me
Overall for me a 7/10 considering its a cell phone game, controls could've been better but they also couldn't have been much better.
This review is dedicated to Nick.
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