Best game ever.

Metal Slug 6 is pretty cool. Graphically, it's really well done. The backgrounds look amazing. The Martians are back again too, which is always fun. They changed some of the voice overs, which is kinda weird at first. The POWs sound like old men now.

The Anthology has two continue modes for each of the Metal Slug games, limited continues and unlimited continues. Every time you beat one of the games with limited continues, you earn tokens that buy unlockable sound and music galleries. There are also two special galleries. In order to unlock the first special gallery, you need to beat every game on Easy with Limited continues. For Metal Slug 1-5 and X, you get 30 continues on Easy. For Metal Slug 6, you only get 15, which is significantly harder to pull off.

To unlock the second special gallery, you need to beat every game on Hard with limited continues. Not only is the difficulty upped, but you only get 10 continues in the first six Metal Slugs and 5 in MS6. It's RIDICULOUS.

They're good for different reasons. Contra came first, and without it, Metal Slug may never have existed. Contra is also a more serious and some of the bosses in the series are truly creepy looking.

Metal Slug, on the other hand, is much less serious. The humor, the destructible backgrounds, and the presence of melee attack all make the Metal Slug series awesome. Oh, and the vehicles. I'd also argue that Metal Slug has a better score.

However, Contra has the Spread Gun which is probably the best run n' gun weapon ever. Some of the MS weapons, particularly the Drop Shot and Iron Lizard, suck pretty bad.

Murdar Machene wrote:

I would like 4 if they hadn't taken the only two characters I like out of it, the guy with the sunglasses and the blonde chick.

The guy with the sunglasses is Tarma. He does have a cameo in the game, but it sucks he's not playable.

And actually, Metal Slug 4 is generally considered the "worst" game in the series because it's a lot more linear than Metal Slug 3 and some of the more interesting vehicles and enemies were taken out. Camel Slug, anyone?

And the MS4 end boss is a TOTAL rip-off of Dr. Wily. Not that that's necessarily a bad thing.

Personally, I think MS4 is a decent game, though probably not as good as its predecessors. My least favorite one is Metal Slug 5. The end boss was super gay.