![]() In many respects, this side-scrolling shooter from SNK, first developed for the Neo-Geo MVS, represents the artform’s pinnacle: the character designs are beautifully rendered and stunningly animated, every frame packed with care, incidental detail and humour.īy 2000, the Metal Slug franchise was already four years old, and Metal Slug 3 continued its comically violent tradition. All of which brings us to Metal Slug 3, an artefact from pixel art’s dying days in the year 2000. Looking back, it’s startling just how quickly pixel graphics evolved from cheerfully blocky Space Invaders to the detailed, anime-style combatants in the Street Fighter II games of the late 90s. Long before virtual reality, way before textured polygons and anisotropic filtering and enhanced subpixel morphological processing, games were largely comprised of big, blocky pixels, each one carefully put in place by hand. Digital Trends has reached out to Tencent Games, and we will update this article as soon as we hear back.A thousand years from now, when we’ve all been uploaded to a giant computer somewhere, archaeologists will term the late 20th century as the BP epoch – Before Polygons. The trailer and press release for Metal Slug Code: J skimps on important details such as an expected release date for the mobile game, and whether or not it will be a free-to-play title. “Our team has been focused on a faithful recreation of the game’s classic shoot-’em-up style, easily accessible for players that’s fun for new and existing fans of the genre,” added Winco Qin, TiMi J1’s general manager. ![]() “ Metal Slug has such an amazing history of great action and gameplay so we’re proud to bring this to mobile gamers around the world,” said SNK Game Producer Yasuyuki Oda in a statement. SNK will be teaming up with Tencent Games subsidiary TiMi Studios for the Metal Slug mobile game, to keep the franchise going more than two decades since it originally launched for arcades in 1996. ![]() Also featured is what appears to be a home town, complete with shops and NPCs. The trailer for the mobile game showcases Metal Slug‘s trademark side-scrolling shoot-’em-up action, though with notable changes that include updated graphics, a new ice-thrower weapon, and on-screen controls. ![]()
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