ACA Neo Geo: Metal Slug
Metal Slug is the original entry in one of the most famous action game series ever released. It was originally released by SNK in 1996. Players control Marco and Tarma who belong to the Special Forces team…
ACA Neo Geo: Metal Slug is an arcade developed by SNK, released 24 December 2016 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What ACA Neo Geo: Metal Slug is
ACA Neo Geo: Metal Slug is an arcade game developed by SNK and released in 2016. It was published by Hamster Corporation. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Metal Slug is the original entry in one of the most famous action game series ever released. It was originally released by SNK in 1996. Players control Marco and Tarma who belong to the Special Forces team known as the 'Peregrine Falcon Squad'. They fight to defeat General Donald Morden, in an effort to take back their stolen weapon known as the 'Metal Slug'. Players can utilize various weapons and vehicles such as the Metal Slug to sway the fight in their favor.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and warfare. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative and Single player.
Where it sits in the Metal Slug series
ACA Neo Geo: Metal Slug is the 31st of 48 entries we hold in the Metal Slug series. It arrived 10 months after Metal Slug: Attack. The next entry was ACA Neo Geo: Metal Slug 3 in 2017. Its critic score of 75 is almost exactly the series average of 74. The highest-rated entry is Metal Slug Advance at 89.
How it was received
ACA Neo Geo: Metal Slug holds a critic score of 75 out of 100. That places it above 53% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 7 points above the year average.
What it launched against
ACA Neo Geo: Metal Slug launched on 24 December 2016, within three weeks of The Last Guardian, Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony, Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun and Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: The Last Guardian, Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony, Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun, Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony.
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