Metal Slug Collection Wii

[A Black Falcon]

I cant fucking believe Metal Slug is coming back to Nintendo *holy hell*, not only that but its retaining the 2-D hand drawn art plus extras and neato things? and it uses the wiimote? .....how? by twisting? i can see them making crazy advancements, I mean i never thought of it before but the wiimote has FOUR levels of movement

"coming back"? No, this'll be the first time any Metal Slug game has been on a Nintendo console, with the exception of Metal Slug Advance for the GBA a few years ago. Though there is an upcoming port of Metal Slug 1 that's going to come out for GBA this summer... PSP is getting a collection with Metal Slugs 1,2,X,3,4, and 5, and GBA Metal Slug 1 (with carts, you can't fit more than one Neo-Geo game worth porting on a cart...). This even things a bit, with Metal Slug Collection for Revolution...

I've played Metal Slugs 1 through 5, and they're all great. Very similar, but great. 3 is probably my favorite, though... fantastic game...

Anyway, I'm wondering how this will use the Wiimote. I don't see how a classic-style arcade shooter like this, inspired by Contra and Gunforce 2 (play it and you'll see what I mean -- I think the same people made Gunforce 2 that then went to SNK to do Metal Slug), would work with the positional/twist/rotation aspects of the controller...

I mean, Metal Slug is oldschool. You move left, move right, jump, and fire (normal shot and bomb/grenade). You get in vehicles sometimes. There are elevators and stuff. You can crouch and crawl. You can fire... left, right, or straight up. Or when ducking. No 360 degree firing, that'd make things too easy... :)Though a few of the pickup guns can be panned to hit a range... but anyway, I don't see how this controller would benefit the game. Not that it makes it any less awesome, though! :D

I think we can probably safely bet that SNK's NES games will be on the Virtual Console, now... though VC support for Neo-Geo looks unlikely, as I said, if they want to sell this collection as a standalone product. Oh well, if they release more collections, it'll be almost as good. :)

Of course, Ikari Warriors looks pretty bad in comparison to Metal Slug, but oh well... it seemed great when I was little, so I'd have to buy it anyway... :)