My one big complaint with SNK is that the stories are left only for the zealots to enjoy rather than having them fully fleshed out in the games. Much like every other SNK game, Metal Slug 7 is very sparse when it comes to story details, leaving much of it up to the imagination unless you find one of the many sites that go into detail with the official canon plots of these games. This time though, it appears time travel is involved, or at least it seems that way from the scene you get in the game. It’s Marco and gang against General Morden once again. Is MS7 able to show us something new, or has the series picked up the same issues that detractors say about KoF, where SNK just makes cookie cutter games to sate an ever shrinking core audience? Anytime a series gets up to the number seven, things start to get a little stale. Two years later and we finally have the much delayed Metal Slug 7, exclusively for the DS.

MS 6 made its US debut on the awesome Metal Slug Anthology for the Wii and PS2 and all six games thrown together gave that compilation our “Shooter of the Year” award for 2006. MS 4 & 5 were a step down in quality, but they were still enjoyable games.

One and two were great, but three blew me away, especially with the eventual port of the game to the Xbox with a lot of bonus features and frills. I’ve always felt that Metal Slug 3 was the best in the series. Instead, it was both the Baseball Stars and Metal Slug franchise that were my gateway to Terry Bogard, Geese Howard, Yuri and the A level SNK characters.

Although SNK is primarily known for its fighting game series, I have to admit games like King of Fighters and Samurai Shodown were not what originally sparked my interest with this particular publisher.

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