However, this wasn’t the route they would take, but even more Metal Slug goodness still wouldn’t be a bad thing. However, releasing a game for a home console would be new territory, and Metal Slug XX, originally released as Metal Slug 7 on the DS, had the chance to take advantage of different hardware and console play styles to shift the Metal Slug formula into something new.
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The Metal Slug series is best known as a fixture of the arcade, the first six games in the series all based around drawing in players with gorgeous pixel art and then claiming quarter after quarter with a sidescrolling run and gun game that was exciting but at the same time very difficult due your characters going down to a single shot.