However, the game surprises you even when you thought you had already passed it: you have many additional modes, such as the Combat School Mode that invites you to replay previous levels with new goals. But everything has a price: Metal Slug X will laugh at the number of times you've died until you can finish the adventure.Once you have mastered Metal Slug X, it's possible that you will pass it right away. Fortunately, the game is conscious of its difficulty and allows you to choose infinite continuations. You'll die many times, since the enemies will not stop attacking you. You'll die many times because you'll be paying more attention to the details happening on the screen than to what's happening to your character!It's impossible for you to finish Metal Slug X at the first attempt. To begin with, get ready for literally rampant action: one minute you'll be aboard a jet plane destroying a moving train and the next you'll be climbing a tower while escaping from a monster-shaped robot.But the action is not the only thing that will vary in the game: eat too much fruit and you'll turn into an obese but mortal hero,once in a while you'll run into vehicles that radically change playability,and don't forget the enormous final bosses, which are also true visual spectacles. You are looking at a title where you (normally) need to advance from left to right while you smash a whole that is after you.In spite of its simple premise, Metal Slug X will keep on surprising you. Metal Slug 2 (and, therefore, Metal Slug X) set the bar so high for shoot' em up games that it was only surpassed by its own sequels. Do we have your attention now? Great, that means you are up for the challenge that awaits you. If you reject this title with the excuse that it's too old, you'll miss and explosive, exciting, fun, action-packed and above all very, very, very difficult adventure. Metal Slug X is a remastered and extended version of Metal Slug 2, a classic arcade game from 1999. Softonic-recensie An absolute shoot'em up classic