Reborn for the Xbox 360
Xbox Live Arcade
Metal Slug 3 is one of my favourite arcade games so I was so happy when they release it on the Xbox. The game has one of the best 2D graphics I've ever seen and still the best over-the-top side-scrolling action game. The gameplay is still as fun as it was on the arcade just with out the joystick it not as responsive but the controls work quite well. The power ups makes a return with some of the same weapons from the last three games, another feature that makes a return is the charater seltion. The story mode on the Xbox 360 version is realy easy because you can go into the option and change it to free play to get all the achvements. There no differents between the old arcade version and the new Xbox version, the only differents is the online play so you can play other people though story mode.
Online play is smooth but only two players. Boss fight in Metal Slug 3 are still as mad as they where in the old arcade versions. All your old favourite charaters and features return so the monkey with the machine gun, the prisoners and all the vehicles. Overall sadly Metal Slug hasn't done much to bring it on to the Xbox so it not worth the 800 ponits (£5) but is you are a fan of the series you won't care about the lack of features and just enjoy the game reborn for the xbox.