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Metal Slug X
Generally favorable reviews
Based on 9 critic reviews
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Based on 4 votes
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Game Info
Publisher: Agetec
Developer: SNK
Genre(s): Action, Side-Scrolling Shooter
Players: 2
ESRB Rating: T (Teen)
Release Date: April 15, 2001
Summary
The classic side-scrolling shooter is alive and kicking with the most recent edition to the Metal Slug series.
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What The Critics Said
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Core Magazine
While essentially just a more difficult remix of "Metal Slug 2," Metal Slug X is still one of the finest 2D shoot-em-ups since the original "Contra."
Read Full Review >IGN
One of the finest of shooters, because it delivers such a massive volume of exploding things, and in such wonderfully fine detail.
Read Full Review >GamePro
Delivers the goods for a perfect arcade-to-home port, while the game’s console-exclusive features deserve a gaming medal of honor.
Read Full Review >Gamestyle
If you own a PSone this is the best thing that has happened to it in years.
Read Full Review >PSX Nation
A stellar representative of a bygone era of gaming that put more emphasis on skill and personality that textured polygons or sex appeal.
Read Full Review >GameSpot
A skewed sense of humor, combined with its frenzied gameplay, gives the game a unique flavor and makes it one of the best side-scrolling shooters out there.
Read Full Review >Electric Playground
It's idiotic. It's also pulse-pounding, addictive, cartoony, loud and grating, and essentially engineered to lay the audio/visual Stigmata on mom and dad hard if they happen to be in the same room trying to read US News & World Report.
Read Full Review >Game Revolution
It's just refreshing to play to a game like this again, but how much you get out of it depends on how much you like this genre.
Read Full Review >Cincinnati Enquirer
A faithful re-creation of the popular 2-D side-scrolling arcade shooter.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this game is 7.5 (out of 10) based on 4 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Brandon N. gave it a 9:
Metal Slug X hits the Playstation frontline with a serious boom. As always, the hilarious nazi-like soldiers go out with the awesome demises that are expected of them. The controls are quick to learn, but long to master as you learn to be a supreme dodger. The music is slightly repetitious but adds to the overall gameplay. The fun as hell explosions are a key selling point. 2p games are even more colorful. The extra minigames are extremely addictive, if not frustrating sometimes. Combat school cuts no slack; trying to gain the instructors respect can be very tasking. Overall, their is tons of eye candy and cute things to laugh at. For the veteran arcade gamer, this game will fill that missing piece of enterntainment that is harder to find in a lot of consoles these days.
