Metal Slug Tactics is all about customization: choosing your characters, picking their loadouts, and then deciding which modifications you want to implement into their weapons. But not all mods ...

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Metal Slug Tactics is like fat-free lard. It just doesn’t make sense. I mean, just think about the Metal Slug franchise. At its core, Metal Slug is about loud, run-and-gun action where you go ...

The Metal Slug series would have been low on my list as a candidate for a tactics game. Better known for bombastic 2D run ‘n’ gun shooting, it’s the antithesis of a slower, more thoughtful ...

90s run ‘n’ gun classic Metal Slug is reimagined as a turn-based tactics game that looks and plays just like the original games. The word’s meaning can be stretched to suit almost any ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. Metal Slug Tactics isn’t what I was expecting. Fortunately, that’s not a bad thing. Instead of Final Fantasy Tactics, it’s Into the Breach ...

Metal Slug Tactics lives up to its stone ... mastery over Tactics’ movement and teamwork-heavy mechanics. The first boss, for example, has you fighting against a battleship that can barely fit all the ...

It magnificently translates the run-n-gun series into ... missing a step. SNK's heavy weapon shooter has spanned many genres around the globe. Here's every Metal Slug game ever made.

A fun and refreshingly light-on-its-feet tactics game successfully translates a lot of Metal Slug's charms into the ... about as much sense as a washing machine made out of mud, but it works ...

And if your team is in trouble, you can always call in some reinforcements and watch the big guns at work: heavy artillery, airstrikes, the glorious Metal Slug itself—you name it, you get it!

Bugs aside, Metal Slug Tactics has been a great little surprise. Win or lose, it’s hard to resist the air-raid siren call of just one more run-and-gun through Morden’s army. A smart ...

Moving away from the run-and-gun action of the series, Metal Slug Tactics (as the title suggests) goes down the tactical route, with a focus on speed and dynamism at its core. The result is a ...