Metal Slug Tactics was a lovely surprise when first announced back at E3 2021. The sidescrolling run-and-gun series didn't seem to have a tactics game in it, but it turns out it does, and Leikir ...

Metal Slug Mobile looks and sounds just fine. The sprites are classically small and barely animated, but they're set against bright backgrounds that are easy on the eyes.

Indeed, Metal Slug's expressive hand-drawn sprites, birthed on that Bentley of 16-bit consoles, the Neo-Geo AES, are kept alive through choice, not necessity.

D-d-d-damn! Let 2D sprite-based graphics continue forever! We think you'll have a similar reaction to Metal Slug 3 when you first see it running on the PS2.

Metal Slug 3 coming to Steam with online multiplayer Before it became cool to eschew polygons and return to sprites, SNK was pumping out gorgeous graphics in its run-and-gun series Metal Slug. Now ...

With Metal Slug 4, you get the same port qualities that were featured in Metal Slug 3. The PS2 seems to handle all the massive, detailed sprites mostly without trouble, although there is a little ...

SNK Playmore has been busily porting over the old Metal Slug games for mobile devices, and while they were some of the best games in the arcade and later on home consoles, I feel that they are not ...

Metal Slug 3 Review From a technical standpoint, this is a superb version of Metal Slug 3, and in some respects, it's even better than the original. By Ryan Davis on May 30, 2004 at 6:17PM PDT ...

Metal Slug 5 is an arcade-perfect shooter, the kind populated by full-fat pixelated sprites blasting the crap out of each other.