I didn’t notice it at first until I tried the 4:3 aspect version which would be the right ratio for the DS. Instead what they’ve done is simply stretched it out from the DS version. While there is a widescreen option for the game, none of the graphics have been redone for the PSP. This version of Metal Slug is 2D much like every other Metal Slug title before it, and while the art and sprites and backgrounds do look great, there are some issues with this port over to the PSP from the DS. Hey, don’t look at me that way, she’s hot! And yes, I am serious, you can hit on the instructor.

The rest of us are going to get frustrated and go back and hit on the instructor before putting the game down. These are very unforgiving and something most diehard Metal Slug fans will love. Basically the difficulty is still there from the main story, but you don’t have unlimited continues and only three lives to lose before the end of a challenge. The Challenge Mode, or Battle Class as it’s called, pulls levels and other situations from the story part of the game and adds a few new. Very thin plot, but you don’t play Metal Slug for the plot, do you? Sadly, Age of Zombies actually had more of a plot going on and that one was mindless fun too, and a bit less frustrating. So you get dispatched again to wade through the good General’s new army. The basic plot is your choice of soldier, you have six to choose from, 7 if you spend the extra buck for the downloadable one off the PSN, is sent in on your first mission of the game to take out the evil enemy commander General Morden, who immediately gets back-up in the form of an army from the future and having something to do with Mars. Depending on how many of the unlimited continues you have to use you can beat it in about an hour. There are two major modes of play with Metal Slug XX, the basic story mode that plays just like any other Metal Slug title in the arcade (which you won’t find for this version, a first for the series) and then a Challenge mode that takes elements from story mode and makes things, harder.

Does Double X really add enough to interest a casual fan, or better yet would a diehard Metal Slug fan be interested? But is this worth plunking down the dough if you’re not a Metal Slug fan? After all the Metal Slug Anthology featuring Metal Slug 1-6 and Metal Slug X were out in the US for PSP 3 years ago and are available right up there with Metal Slug XX for download. Metal Slug XX is almost a direct port, with a few additions to take advantage of some of the PSPs built in features. Much like the revamp of Metal Slug 2, Metal Slug X, Metal Slug XX is a redo or revamp of Metal Slug 7 which came out on the DS a few years ago.

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