Well, those bgs are more often ugly than not, sometimes the styile works better than others, and I would have been happy if the result was always up to par with what we get on Mission 4. Visually I don't like the choice, a bit like Slug 6, to go with prerendered backgrounds since DS limited capabilitis make for an even poorer color palette and grainy graphics, but under a gameplay point of view it definitely helps DS's screen to make enemies and bullets easy to spot (so it makes a lot more sense here than for the arcade chapters).

I've played all the levels bar one and I'd say slowdowns are almost non-existent, framerate could be just a bit smoother though but really I'm nitpicking here. but it's still all there and Metal Slug's charm is definitely retained. The main gripe it's due to the machine's screen much more than a lacking effort by the developer: the resolution used to show as a big play area as the other game in the series (as opposed to MSAdvance) makes for too tiny characters and, especially the tiny ones like characters/soldiers etc show little detail. Graphically there's a lot of good to the game and some fail. The game goes for just $19.99 on website!Īs expected, the game feel a lot more like Metal Slug DS than the Metal Slug number 7 it's been titled by SNK PlaYmore. Metal Slug 7 will also feature new weapons, colossal new bosses, new gameplay modes and new Slugs to pilot. Gamers can join Marco, Tarma, Eri, Fiolina, Clark and Ralph as they prepare to take on Modern's Forces across seven new missions. 'Metal Slug 7' is bound to appear in the near future exclusively on the XBox Live Arcade service. MS7 will make its way on XBox360 Live Arcade Marketplace: Or import it through retailers like CDUniverse/VGPlus Īpparently some Euro Countries got the game on Nov. Metal Slug 7 is out now in the US and JPN

I'm revamping the thread since my US copy it's on the way.īut I'll still keep, at least for now, the impressions I posted for the JPN release.

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