Metal Slug XX brings more run and gun to your PSP

January 10, 2010 by Timothy Torres · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Run and Gun

Atlus doesn’t know when to quit. Not satisfied spoiling us with hardcore ridiculousness like Demon’s Souls and tons upon tons of Shin Megami Tensei games, they deem Feb. 23 the time to bestow Metal Slug XX for PSP upon us. A port of Metal Slug 7 for DS, Metal Slug XX (pronounced “double-ex”) heralds the return of multi-player through the PSP’s ad-hoc connection. Because who wants to run-and-gun solo? That’s just silly.

But the Metal Slug series has always been silly, and this one looks to up the ante with a nice, big cast (Marco, Tarma, Fio, Eri, Ralf, Clark and a purchasable Leona), seven levels in the main campaign and — in a series first — more than 70 missions worth of bonus content. For only $20 that sounds like quite the steel. Er, steal. Ha, like metal? Get it, Metal Slug?

Ugh.

Tags: 2d game, 2d graphics, metal slug, metal slug xx, psp, Run and Gun, snk playmore, sony psp

Interview: 4 Questions for Mike Kennedy, Senior Producer of Unbound Saga

June 30, 2009 by Jeffrey L. Wilson · 1 Comment
Filed under: Beat Em Ups, Interviews

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Interviews can be unpredictable beasts. One may suffer from incessant marketing speak, while the next may be littered with all manners of awesome – - the latter is the category in which I place the words of Mike Kennedy, senior producer of Unbound Saga, the upcoming PSP brawler. There are three things that you should keep with you long after reading this: