Which series do like better, Contra or Metal Slug? And why?
I prefer Metal Slug, graphics are bright but work with the game well, lots of characters, and Metal Slug! Also, I love watching the bad guys burn
Contra or Metal Slug?
Which series do like better, Contra or Metal Slug? And why?
I prefer Metal Slug, graphics are bright but work with the game well, lots of characters, and Metal Slug! Also, I love watching the bad guys burn
Metal Slug has much better animation. The only problem I have with MS is the terrible slowdown.
They are both a heavy challenge but I prefer the look & feel of Metal Slug over Contra. Although, if I'm playing 2 players, I'd rather play Contra so we can go more than just left to right. Neo Contra was pretty decent.
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Metal Slug definitely. It's simple, fun and you can play it over and over and over again.
I go for Metal SLug, although I love but Probotector / Contra series. I currently more like Metal Slug series (except 4,5 and Advance) then Probotector/Contra. But both are great series, with their own positive and negatives. Together they are by far the best in the Genre and I don't know anygame coming close to these classic series.
Has anyone played Metal Slug Mobile? Considered buying/downloading it to my mobile a few minutes ago. Not sure it's worth the money...any views on this?
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Hmm, toughie. The first 4 Metal Slug games were quite nice, but then MS4 really dropped the ball and I wasn't big on the NGPC versions either. I've yet to play Metal Slug 5...
I'll go with Contra. The difficulty and replayability of Hard Corps was better than that of Metal Slug 3 and Alien Wars remains one of the best run n guns ever made. Super C and Contra are both pretty easy, but fun for a brief runthrough (and only about half the length of Metal Slug).
Oddly enough, I just started playing Neo Contra last night.
Oh, and if you dig the whole MAME thing, enable cheats, hit tilde (~), and overclock the main CPU to ~150%-200% for the Neo Geo games. Gets rid of that slowdown for you(though it may introduce some other bugs and whatnot)
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I thought about downloading it, but I figured it would be really hard to play on the phone. I think the controls on the cell phone are difficult for almost all games I've played. It's only a couple of dollars, you could always try it out. (Also gamespot.com has Mobile game reviews, might want to check that out)Originally Posted by poloplayr
Metal Slug 1,3 are the best run n guns ever IMO.
Contra HC, along with the Treasure stuff (Gunstar, Alien Soldier) aren't far behind.
I personally despised the funky forward scrolling levels in Contra and the damn overhead levels in Contra 3, though otherwise they are damn good.
metal slug. That was an easy one.
I prefer Metal Slug by far. Athough I'm not as big of a fan of the portable ones, 1st Mission, 2nd Mission and Advance. The life bar totally goes against the whole concept of the arcade game.
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Overall I'd say Metal Slug, the graphics are bright and colorful, as the are the enemies and weapons, and it's got a nice fast hectic pace. Plus it's simple and easy to get into, and can be played for a few minutes or a few hours.
Though I will say that the newer Contra's on the PS2 like Shattered Soldgier, has a lot of the qualities that I love so much about MS.
Both are great series, But I have nicer memories playing contra and super C in my NES!
Metal Slug
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Metal Slug.
It's a smoother gameplay.
Metal slug for the win. The animations are all well done and the comical feel really adds to the gameplay. It's one of the few shooters I can say that I've played through each at least 5 times.
Too different to compare I think. Although the genre is the same, I can't really put one above the other.
When I first saw the thread title, I thought "Oh, Contra of coarse"
But then I remember the few times that I've played Metal Slug on a NeoGeo and how it blows me away.
I choose both
Curse you Metal Slug Fans! You're always trying to steal Contra's Thunder. :P
Seriously though, while i abosolutely love Metal Slug (and Alien Hominid) Contra will always be my favortie series.
I have joyous memories of my youth playing Contra for 17 hours straight. Metal Slug never had that kind of addicting affect on me.
I mean sure it has better animation and you don't die from running into people, but Contra (and i mean Contra, Super C, Contra 3 and Shattred Solider) was first. It defined the genre in a way that no other game has. Hell Contra today is still though of as one of the best co-op games ever and if you play it you'll know why.
The Slug is cool but comparing graphics is insane because Metal Slug was an Arcade Series while Contra, excluding the original, was only at home. Gameplay may be better and more vaired with Metal Slug, but damned if i still don't love good ol' Contra game play more.
Metal Slug was interesting and fun, but I have to go with Contra series .. especially how it rocks on so many different platforms, even the Arcade version was great for being so old. Konami was in it's golden age with that and Gradius.
Anyone remember Rush n' Attack, I think they might have used that as the inspiration for the original arcade Contra.
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