Expanded Game

Metal Slug X

1999 · Arcade · Neo Geo AES · Web browser · Neo Geo MVS · Linux · Wii · Shooter · Platform · Adventure

79IGDB player score
142 ratings

Previously Take

A 79 average that undersells it — ask the 142 people who rated it. Adventure game fundamentals, done right. Sometimes that's plenty. Come for the campaign, stay because your friends won't let you leave the lobby.

About this game

Metal Slug X is upgraded version of Metal Slug 2 (Metal Slug 2: Super Vehicle-001/I), which was released in March 1999 for the Neo Geo MVS. It fixed slowdown problems from the original game, and increased the difficulty. Metal Slug X also introduced some new elements to the game system.

“METAL SLUG 2”, the 2nd entry in SNK’s emblematic 2D run & gun action shooting game returns to the battlefield on the Steam gaming platform!

General Donald Morden, the antagonist from the first game is back once more with his army, bent on taking over the world. It is up to the Peregrine Falcon squad, who are now joined by two new characters: Eri Kasamoto and Fiolina Germi of the Sparrows Intelligence Unit, to save the day. As the levels unfold, it turns out that Morden has allied with Martians to help facilitate his plans. Eventually the tables are turned when Morden comes under attack and is betrayed by his Martian allies. An ad-hoc alliance is formed between the Peregrine Falcon squad and General Morden's army to combat the greater alien threat.