Metal Slug 6 screenshots

The title screen. Leave it long enough and a demo will play. Not much to see here.

Easy Mode gives you a heavy machine gun with infinite ammo, but the game will end after stage 4.

Amongst the staple bizarre portraits, we see two newcomers: Ralf and Clark, from Ikari Warriors.

After parachuting in, Tarma begins his one-man offensive...

...and frees his first P.O.W. Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just pleased to see me?

A new feature of MS6 is the ability to melee at will. Rather than a knife, Tarma chooses to attack with a gag boxing glove.

Normally, it's wise to place mines before the action happens. Not in this soldier's book.

The developers really have a thing for munitions that roll (or drive, or run) along the ground.

Here we see an example of a Metal Slug explosion, some of the prettiest in the industry.

Fighting the first mini-boss in a newly-liberated Metal Slug, the series' eponymous vehicle.

These soldiers would stand a much better chance if they paid attention once in a while.

One of the Slug's defining features it its ludicrously low-velocity cannon.

Metal Slug 6's first major boss. No match for the Slug.

In this form, the boss's main form of attack is to fire boulders at you. Because shells are too mainstream.

Finishing the level gives you a tally of all the P.O.W.s who have shared the contents of their undies.

...and that's mission one completed, a fact the announcer emphatically assures us of.

Metal Slug 6