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Released in 2000
(16 total votes)
This is the fourth game in the Metal Slug series following Metal Slug 1, 2, and X. It continues the tradition of the fast-paced, side-scrolling jump-and-shoot game.
You are a soldier whose mission is to defeat the followers of the evil General Morden. General Morden was supposedly eliminated in earlier games, but as the game progresses it becomes evident that he is still quite alive. The setting is an apocalyptic "war composite" landscape (WWII / Vietnam / Mideast) with colorful, highly detailed backgrounds.
The game can be played alone or jointly with two players. Shooting everything in sight, you plow through the enemy picking up special weapons as you go. Many are handed to you by dazed hostages. There are machine guns, rocket launchers, and grenades as well as special "slugs," or vehicles, that you can hop into and use to smash into the enemy for maximum damage. New to Metal Slug 3 are the Ostrich and Elephant slugs.
But what makes this game particularly unique is the elaborate and subtle details of the cartoony 2D graphics. The animations of the characters convey a staggering range of emotions and contribute a lot of humor to the game. For example, characters gain weight and become sluggish (no pun intended) if they eat too much food, they laugh hysterically when they blow up enemies, and they have their own special death sequences with slapstick, overblown, dramatics.
The scene in which the soldiers become zombies is amazingly detailed with the characters morphing into their delirious states. Also of note is the animation sequence of the elephant walking.
At the end of each level are fantastical, over-the-top bosses, the last of which is a huge alien brain.
by kk.
Comment: "Great game. Super animations, great shooter/scroller gameplay."
2002-04-04 18:11:08Z
by yoo_144.
Comment: "its cool and the best ive played.
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2001-08-20 06:46:46Z
by g_apolo.
Comment: ""its cool and the best ive played. ""
2001-08-22 01:46:55Z
by kjjjh12.
Comment: "this is very good"
2001-08-23 23:29:16Z
by rodrigodoy.
Comment: "snif, snif...
I never play this game, i only see pictures in the net and i hate it...I hate it because don't have emulators for it.
I can't wait more to play metal sug 3!!!
Because i love Metal Slug series....
PS: sorry about mine english, i don't write and speak very good but i was learn... Bye!!!!"
2001-10-06 04:14:28Z
by treepiece.
Comment: "Good!!"
2001-10-06 05:34:07Z
by mar_kof.
Comment: "quiero el metal slug 3"
2001-10-31 11:43:21Z
by texal.
Comment: "it's very good"
2001-11-03 14:29:12Z
by alcinqui.
Comment: "It's a very beautiful and interesting game!"
2001-12-23 09:40:59Z
by scremscrem.
Comment: ":-)"
2002-01-10 04:58:13Z
by Paulo.
Comment: "é muito bom esse jogo!!"
2002-02-17 09:32:50Z
by koopa.
Comment: "The whole Metal Slug series are the best games ever on any system.
Cool sound, cool graphics, addictive gameplay, excelent game.
Kokaine
:-)"
2002-11-28 04:49:04Z
by Denus.
Comment: "I can't imagine a MVS without Metal Slug....
I have MS1, 2 and 3: I can't stop playing it over and over...!
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2003-11-17 16:28:02Z
by net.
Comment: "its a good game i like it its fun all that shooting you got to do FUN."
2003-10-14 18:53:18Z
by darrenmei.
Comment: "this rocks thx
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2005-06-17 07:46:16Z
by chizzle.
Comment: "nobody's said anything for a while now.....all of the metal slug games are RAW!!"
2007-02-02 16:59:43Z
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