Metal Slug (メタルスラッグ) is a series of run and gun video games first released on Neo Geo arcade machines and game consoles originally created by Nazca and later by SNK. It has also been ported to various consoles, such as the Sega Saturn, PlayStation, Neo Geo Pocket Color, Game Boy Advance, PlayStation 2, Xbox and Xbox 360 and more. There is also an anthology of the first 7 games in the main series (including Metal Slug X) available for the Wii, PlayStation Portable and PlayStation 2. Some games are also available for PC platforms.
SNK staff state that Metal Slug is one of their best international hits, the other being The King of Fighters series, and they are always willing to expand the series.
Story
The first game's story involved the Peregrine Falcon (PF) Squad, a small but skilled team of soldiers serving under the Regular Army's special operations division, who fight against the army of General Donald Morden in order to prevent a massive coup d'etat and the creation of a New World Order under General Morden. Later games featured characters from the Sparrows Unit, which is under the control of the Regular Army's intelligence division. In the games following the first, the PF Squad also battles an alien threat to Earth (the Mars People), as well as several other supernatural threats including yetis, zombies, ambulatory Venus flytraps, giant crabs and mummies.
Outlandish elements were removed from the fourth game to return to the feel of the original title, which resulted in poor critical and commercial reception. The fifth moved to the motif of modern guerrilla warfare, leaving only traces of the series signature quirky humor and paranormal enemies (except for the final boss). Metal Slug 6 returned to the plot of the first three installments, bringing back Morden's Rebel Army and the Mars People.
Gameplay
The mechanics of the series is characteristic of run and guns: The enemies come in hordes, the weapons have high fire rates. All of these characteristics come from the Contra series, which the game's mechanics is based on. Metal Slug however takes the concepts introduced in Contra and expands upon them. First and foremost is the ability to perform melee attacks. In most run and guns, contact with an enemy leads to immediate death. In this series, contact only results in either party's death if an attack is performed. This leads to the ability for the player to run in and use melee attacks to take down a number of troops.
Games
Mainline series
- Metal Slug: Super Vehicle-001
- Metal Slug 2
- Metal Slug 3
- Metal Slug 4
- Metal Slug 5
- Metal Slug 6
- Metal Slug 7
Remakes/Updated Games
Spin-Offs
Mobile Games
- Metal Slug Mobile
- Metal Slug Mobile: Impact
- Metal Slug: Allen's Battle Chronicles
- Metal Slug STG
- Metal Slug Survivors / Metal Slug 4 Mobile
- Metal Slug Soldiers
- Metal Slug Fighters
- Metal Slug Warriors
- Metal Slug Mars Panic!
- Metal Slug Tactics
- Metal Slug M1
- Metal Slug Touch
- Metal Slug M2
- Metal Slug Team Mission
- Universal Metal Slug: Fierce Battle
- Universal Metal Slug: Login
- Universal Metal Slug: Tank Conspiracy
- Universal Metal Slug: Triumph
- Metal Slug Defense
- Metal Slug Revolution
- Metal Slug Attack
- Metal Slug XX Online
- Metal Slug Infinity
- Metal Slug: Commander
- Metal Slug Awakening
Compilations
Canceled
Pachislot
Introduced Characters
MS 1
MS2/X
MS3
- Utan
- President
- Madoka Aikawa
- Rootmars
MS4
- Nadia Cassel
- Trevor Spacey
- Amadeus
1st Mission
- Lieutenant Colonel MacBa
- Colonel Hilde Garn
2nd Mission
- Gimlet
- Red Eye
- Tequila
- Lt. Wired
- Kanan
Advance
MS 5
MS 6/7
MS XX
MS3D
Other Characters
- Helton
- Tilde
- Nikita
- Matilda
- Victor
- Amir
NPCs
- Drill Instructors
- Selina
- Professor Robert
Mobile
- Robert Nicola
- Nathalie Neo
- Alisa Stewart
MS Defense
Attack
Playable Characters
- Terry Bogard
- Athena Asamiya
- Mai Shiranui
- K'
- Kula Diamond
- Mostro (in Reloaded version)
Original Units
- Ptolemaios
- Scotia Amundsen
- Pharaoh
- Red Goblin
- El Dorado
- Professor
- Dragunov
- MS-Alice
- Abigail
- Vatn
- Yoshino
- Odette
- Beatriz
- Caroline
- Cleopatra
- Vita
- White Baby
- Annette
- Lydia
- Anna Wiese
- Jin
- Veronica
- Navy
- Percier
- Aileen
- Nova
- Elysion
- Sisilia
- Esther
- Aswang
- Destrade
- Midori Schumann
- Nowan
- Shizuka
- Rapid
- Towa
- Huracan
- Aisha
- Mira
- Elena
- Licht
- Simon
- Julia
- Anastasia IV
- Mello
- Schwarz Metzelei
- Chloe
- Miharu
- Izabella
- Rita Lewinsky
- Amber
- Agalia
- Ariadna
- Perche
- Nikita
- Chunyan
- Reika Bradford
- Fedeln Metzelei
- Grazia
- Alma
- Owen
- Iron Fortress
- Rillacle
- Loretta
- Ichima
- Ami
- Gemini Twins
- Edda
- Sho
- Halle
- Hemet (abbreviated as HMT)
- Arsinoe
- Molly
- Dion
- First Baby
- M.D.P.S-Mz 3
- Norah
- Maria
- Franke
- Louise
- Teresa
- Emma
- Beecham
- Kelly
- Ulala
- Vicky
- Damian
- Gisee
- Bonny
- Achetto
- Dolores
- Teleko
- Minerva
- Romy
- Lucy
- Clario
- Growth & Cline
- Bloom Metzelei
- MS-Heart
- Sally
- Odine
- Zoni Doloma
- Conny
- Hathol
- Phoebe
- Bersek
- Maggie
- Naomi
- Sharifa
- Josette
- Ashley
- Geweih Metzelei
- Nantes
- Rocky
- Millefie
- Mizuna
- Yang Dao
- Kriemhild
- Growl
- Matilda
- Purple King
- Otto
- Little Lady Black
- Jephet
- Harriot
- Melvina
- Avvio
- Kagura
- Keisetsu
- Tsukikage
- Ouka
- Ramal
- Jane Doe
- Et A Omnis
- Svetla
- Barbeln
- Anastasia I
- Victoria
- Maya
- Quaith
- Code Marionette:Un
- Claudia
- Pauline
- Cara
- Sharl
- Padwah
- Leone
- Humphrey
- Kanae
- Claris
- Type:Ant-Lion
- Lithos
- Katalina
- Biene Goldenes
- Mirror Mantis
- Oao-One
- Yutong
- Howell
- Wendy
- Zahara
- Sekhat
- Unsigned
- Grace
- Tatyana
- Swordesit
- Cocatrix
- Drache Goldenes
- Sylfie
- Phi
- Eis Monstrum
- Karen
- Ido
- Fluffy
- Ai Agate
- Elizabeth Mariani
- Draco & Pocke
- Eight Eight
- Sweet Baby
- Cica
- Raubtier
- Undo
- Wepset
- Lin Lin
- Olga
- Lieben
- Virginia
- Maki
- Linhua
- Philia
- Charlotte
- Goldenes Krieger
- Hisui
- Reverse Trinity
- Melk
- Malkuth
- Valette
- Pictura
- Nayutaro Ichimonji
- Flan
- Extra Raven
Commander
- Merris
- Dalia
Awakening
Playable Characters
Original Characters
- Lyla
- Eva Glenn
- Haran
- Gru Kang
- Scarlett
- Kukik
- Saya
- Eiserner
- Joe
- Lilith
- Ame
- Dong Huanlong
- Ilum
- Freyja
- Eske
- Aurora
- Martina
- "Shadow"
- "Holly"
Crossover Characters
- Violet (Arena of Valor)
- Alessio (Honor of Kings)
- Sun Shangxiang (Honor of Kings)
- Marco Polo (Honor of Kings)
Vehicles
Combat Vehicles
- SV-001 "Metal Slug"
- SV-002 "Black Hound"
- Sand Simon
Aircrafts
Mechas
- SVX-17M "Slug Mariner"
- Middle-Son 1986
- Middle-Son 1999
Support Vehicles
- SVX-22UG "Drill Slug"
- Motorcycle
- M-15A MLRS "Bradley"
- Metal Crow
- Landseek
- TIAF660
Animals
- Super Vehicle "Camel"
- Super Vehicle "Ostrich"
- Super Vehicle "Elephant"
- Super Vehicle "Donkey"
Characters' Participation
Participation of the characters in the mainline games of the series, either they canonical or not.
- Note 1: The order of the tables are based on the appearances on the first mainline game of the series.
- Note 2: About the colors in the table, they follow the logic below:
- Yellow: for table titles, to be announced entries (TBA) and undefined/dual status.
- Law Green & Red: for the characters' participation in the series.
- Forest Green & Fire Brick: the first color indicates the characters who participated in all games of the series, and the second indicates the characters who were absent from, at least, one game in the series.
Mainline series
Mobile series
Trivia
- The four first games of the series were produced and released by former SNK, and Metal Slug 4, by PLAYMORE and BrezzaSoft. Starting from Metal Slug 5, all the games were produced and released by SNK PLAYMORE.
- This series, the Fatal Fury series, the Art of Fighting series and the Samurai Shodown series are the only SNK non-crossover series to receive characters from other franchises, whether from the company itself or from other companies.
- In the series, this occurs in Metal Slug 6, Metal Slug 7 (and his updated version) and Metal Slug Defense, with the members of the Ikari Warriors squad (some of the Ikari Warriors series and other from The King of Fighters series) appears as playable characters.
See also
External links
- Wikipedia article
- Metal Slug Wikia
- 10th year anniversary site
- 10th Anniversary Video
- English version of the series archived official site
- METAL SLUG 2ND MISSION official site
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