Though you begin with only a basic hand gun (you'll have to tap X constantly to keep up your rate of fire) it's easy to come across new weapons by defeating enemies and freeing hostages. Taking place across five missions, you choose from one of four heroes (though don't expect any different gameplay experience between the four) and spend all of your time shooting and dodging. This is a balls-to-the-walls 2D side-scrolling shooter. Gameplay Make no mistake, Metal Slug 3 is about as complex as 2 + 0, but it's a lot more fun than any math equation. With that in mind, does Slug 3 equal its $40 value? I have to judge Metal Slug 3 against the rest of the Xbox library. This is an arcade game, but I'm not reviewing an arcade game - I'm reviewing this as an Xbox title. Not only is it not the latest Slug ( 4 and 5 are out in the arcades), it offers only marginal improvements over the arcade version with some extra modes, but little else. So comes the problem with reviewing Metal Slug 3 a four-year old arcade shooter. But if not for arcade ports, mindless shoot-em-ups - where two buttons are all you need to survive - wouldn't be available to hungry gamers who just want to stay on the couch and not go to the arcade. However, the problem with porting arcade games to Xbox is that the graphics, sound, and depth rarely translate well. Most Xbox games are the antithesis of the arcade classics, so seeing a good old fashioned shooter come to the 'box is a delight. Over the past couple of years, we've entered a gaming era where developers feel they must make use of every button on the controller and offer gameplay gimmicks to sell their products. In fact, it wasn't until the Dreamcast and the amazing Soul Calibur that console games began surpassing the quality offered in an arcade cabinet. On the video screen, guerrillas were fighting policemen and mutant lobsters in the streets of a bombed-out city.Several other games are mentioned in the book, including Bomberman, which is linked to a terrorist attack in the city.Only a few years ago, console and arcade games were comparable graphically. One night in late November, Sunil was in the game shed after an unprofitable day of scavenging, watching two boys at one of the red consoles play Metal Slug 3. It is set in a slum in Mumbai, India and the game is described when one of the trash scavenger watches two boys play the game: The game is referenced in the 2012 non-fiction novel Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo.One of the hostages (who also appeared in Metal Slug 2 & Metal Slug X) known as Hyakkutaro will join the fight by shooting fireballs. Finally, the last boss battle seems to be slightly inspired by the ending sequence in Alien: Resurrection. Also in Mission 5, the alien clones you face seem to parody the sci-fi movie classic, Invasion of the Body Snatchers. The carnivorous alien plants in Mission 4 are a parody of the sci-fi musical comedy, The Little Shop of Horrors In Mission 5, the squid-like aliens are a homage to the movie, Independence Day. For example, Mission 2 features a guest appearance by the Men in Black. Metal Slug 3 features a number of references to sci-fi movies.This is understandable as many of SNK's Metal Slug developers originally worked for Irem. The stages that are set underwater are a reference to Irem's 1993 classic, In the Hunt. Trivia Development Metal Slug 3 was the last game in the Metal Slug series that was developed by SNK.
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