In 1996 an arcade legend was born with the release of Metal Slug: Super Vehicle 001. The military-style themes, and a side-scrolling platform mixed with a wacky sense of humor and hilarious cartoon style, proved extremely popular to a decidedly wide audience. Based on this success, seven more Metal Slug sequels would be developed and released. Ten years later, The Metal Slug game play and popularity are still going strong. To celebrate, the creators of the Metal Slug Anthology stopped at nothing to provide a 2D, side scrolling compilation for the PSP that is perfectly compatible with all the great game play possibilities that the PSP has to offer.

this is a great compilation of classics. Metal Slug is a very good game series. But nothing is perfect the only problem he has is that the loading time is a bit slow, but this does not affect gameplay.

Do you like to run in video games?
Do you like to gun in video games?
Do you like to run and gun in video games?
Then have I found a game for you!
Metal Slug has been around for some time. With 6 different arcade cabinets, a GBA release, two Neo*Geo Pocket games, a Nintendo DS game, and two PSP games (this is one of them, of course), it's safe to say that this is a well established franchise. There's a story in there, involving megalomaniacs, soldiers, aliens, aliens attacking other aliens, prisoners of war, and tanks. But it's all pointless. All you need to know is this: Your enemy stands before you (and behind, above, and even below)! Destroy them! G.I.JOE says that knowing is half the battle. Well, the other half is violence, and that's what this game focuses on!
I say game, but it's a compilation of seven (that's right, 7) Metal Slug games. You get one through six, and the remake of Metal Slug 2, AKA: Metal Slug X. All have great responsive controls, all make you wish that your thumb could mash the shoot button faster, all make you giggle with glee as you blow up enemies, fight aliens, and get fat from picking up too many extra point items. It's like Contra, but with a sense of humor.
It's great to pick up and play. Although initial load times are kind of long, once you're actually in the game, it doesn't take too long. In fact, I welcomed the load times, because I could give my hand a rest. Sure, I could use aut-fire, but wheres the challenge in that?
Bottom line is this: This has seven excellent run and gun games in the vein of Contra. It's cheap. If all you want to do is destroy everything that is not you onscreen, then, for the love of God, purchase this game!

Metel slug is a work of art in and of itself.
The senery is breathtaking at least to me.
It is perhaps to busy sometimes though,
And it gets choppy. They seem to master
And eliminate the choppyness by metal
Slug 4 so their has been an ongoing
Improvement in combating the technical
Issues. It is the kind of game you play
If you need to blow off steam without
Commiting mass genocide due to
Having a bad day. A final note, the
Entertainment software rating board
Gave this game a tame rating considering
It makes Wolfenstein seem like a walk in park.

This game is funny with lots of over the top stereotypes. I recommend this game, but slow load times and frame rate issues do take away from, what I imagine, the original developers intended experience.

Few games are as easy or fun to pick up and play as Metal Slug. And with six varieties on a single disc, this will easily become one of the most played titles in your collection.