

Local Bluetooth multiplayer is also supported, as are several audio and video options. Sadly, it doesn’t look like they can be shared right now, but it’s a fun feature regardless. ScoreLoop is supported for achievements and leaderboards, and you can save replays.

Your first play-through should only take you a couple hours or so, but there’s a tremendous amount of replay value here, with four skill levels and a new Mission Mode, which lets you choose any mission to start on once you’ve beaten it. The game comprises six missions, a dozen or so horrific weapons to collect and zillions of bloody corpses left in your wake. The temporary shift to a far more isometric perspective in the game’s final level feels totally natural, and even amidst limitless hails of gunfire, you’ll rarely go too long without noticing just how friggin’ cool everything looks. The graphics are superb, as is the sense of 3-dimensional space. Metal Slug 2 is one of the best-liked and most fun of the series. Having beaten Metal Slug 1-7 at least once apiece in the past, I can attest that these seemingly threadbare little asides escalate pretty hilariously. While it’s true that the games don’t really have much story to them beyond “Kill enemy soldiers,” little details throughout help to fill in the gaps through surprisingly detailed character animations.

There seems to be some overarching threat of global domination going on behind the scenes, but the player is, by and large, left firing rounds off in the dark as far as the narrative is concerned. You play one of four crazy-eyed mercenaries as they traverse from country to country obliterating everything in sight, opposing forces and priceless historical landmarks alike.
METAL SLUG 2 ONLINE GAME SERIES
The Metal Slug series has always stood out from the majority of arcade shooters due to its rare polish and cutting humor. “… But we do know that it was us that scorched the sky.” And most of the POWs in the fourth level can only be saved by destroying entire buildings (and not always just one). There’s a bit in the second level where if you choose NOT to save a hapless explorer from a killer mummy, you collect the $30,000 ruby he drops. Metal Slug 2, now on Android, is a game whose first level tasks you with firing camel-mounted Gatling guns in an Agrabah-like marketplace. Usually you’d find Bust-A-Move 2, some random shooter and one of a dozen or so King of Fighters titles. They were especially popular in the 90s, in Laundromats and pizza joints, since owners could swap out titles that weren’t eating enough quarters. Some of you out there might still remember those old Neo Geo arcade machines with interchangeable games.
