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Eswat |
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For the Mega Drive port of Eswat Sega wisely decided to pretty much overhaul the whole game and make something new, what they ended up with was far superior to all the other more accurate to the original game versions out there. Great music, great atmosphere and quite simply well judged gameplay. |
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Gunforce |
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2 Players |
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This game was actually made by the people who went on to create the Metal Slug series so could be seen as a bit of a precurser somewhat. It's a solid title with some pretty clear influence from Contra throughout there's also, however a very excellent jump into vehicles feature present which would later become such a prominent aspect of the aforementioned Metal Slug games. |
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Gunstar Heroes |
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2 Player |
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Stand out versions - Mega Drive |
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Fast and fun, Gunstar Heroes must go down as probably the most accessible classic Run N' Gun on the list, the graphics and action are great and push the Mega Drive to the limit and the Seven Force boss fight must go down as being one of the most memorable boss fights in videogaming. |
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Metal Slug |
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1 Player |
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Stand out versions - NEO GEO |
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One of the archetypal run and gun game series' started here, Metal Slug games are just great for no holds barred action gaming, the pace is perfectly set and the vehicles and weapons upgrades are a whole load of fun to use. |
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Metal Slug 3 |
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2 Player |
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Stand out versions - NEO GEO |
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Beautiful graphics, loads of new ideas as well as a new branching Path system all helped to make Metal Slug 3 one of the, if not the quintessential Metal Slug game. |
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Metal Slug X |
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2 Player |
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Stand out versions - NEO GEO |
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Metal Slug X was actually an improved remake of the 2nd game in the series which had been criticised for it's frame rate issues, SNK got it right this time around and eliminated pretty much all of the originals' problems whilst at the same time making all the levels look much nicer graphically. |
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Midnight Resistance |
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1 Player |
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Stand out versions - Mega Drive |
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Midnight Resistance was one of the early Contra clones to come out of the arcades, it's main pulling point was it's rotating controler which allowed you to fire one way and run another, the MD tries to emulate this with a weird setup which seems to work adequately once you've become accustomed to it. The game is pretty damn good with great enemy boss fights, it's own buy power-ups feature and some of the catchiest music on Mega Drive. |
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Rapid Reload/Gunners Heaven |
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It's quite obvious where Media Vision were taking their inspiration from when they set out to make their own run n' gun game, but I'm pleased to say that Rapid Reload is not just a very good clone of Gunstar heroes, apart from the obvious leap in graphics over the generation gap, Rapid Reload makes a few decisions to split away from Gunstar Heroes, it has a weapon system which is more akin to the one found in Contra III (accumulate and cycle between weapons, bomb power-ups) whilst adding it's own features such as the fantastic grappling hook to pull you out of tight spaces and the timer based power-ups which force you to keep moving through the levels at speed. |
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Realm |
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Is it just me or does the main character of Realm look like he's based on a super saiyan?! this is another great lessor known run n' gun game that has some really nice graphics and effects with a bunch of nice ideas thrown in for good measure. It's mostly centred around boss battles with only small intermissions of levels between (though nowhere near to the extent of Alien Soldier) I think one of the reasons it's never found any popularity is because it's so stupidly difficult, it takes a good amount of skill and practice just to get past the 1st stage! |
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