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Lots of them-subs, tanks, planes, camels, elephants… let your imagination run wild. It’s easy to describe this game: first picture Contra (be it the original, or the recently released Shattered Soldier for the younger and/or more masochistic crowd). You and they have been known to take down this particular dictator before, so guess what? It’s time to do it again. Enter your team, and the generation of Super Vehicles known as Metal Slugs. An evil madman is threatening to take over the world, and apparently, the military just isn’t good enough to send in. Metal Slug 3 puts you in charge of two special weapons experts/commandos, out of a presented team of four. The answer to these questions is quite simple, actually: it doesn’t matter. Can these two systems peacefully coexist? Does a Neo Geo game have any business appearing on the Xbox? Can it stand up to its aesthetically superior competition? Is this blatant pandering meant to take advantage of the retrogaming craze? It’s a brave new world out there, my friends, one that poses many questions.
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When one thinks about it, the last place you would expect to see a Neo-Geo game would be on the Xbox-yet, here we are. However, everything else about it is considered “outdated” and “obsolete” by the industry-sound, graphics, the fact that slowdown still exists if there are too many objects on the screen-everything. Few systems can match its awesome ability to manage low-resolution, two-dimensional sprites. In the other corner, we have the SNK Neo-Geo. Surround sound, bump-mapping, anti-aliasing if it’s a graphics industry buzzword, chances are the Xbox has it, or can emulate it via good coding. It is home to Halo, Jet Set Radio Future, and other feats of three-dimensional, polygonal, visual, and aural glory. In one corner, we have the Microsoft Xbox the most powerful videogame console on the market. This is an interesting situation, no doubt about it.