> I'm a bit confused by that last line. But I know perfectly well HOW to play MS3
> - go incredibly slowly, take two steps then spend five minutes shooting
> everything 50 times with your dismally-underpowered pistol because there are far
> more enemies than your decent weapons have ammo for, then take two more steps
> and do it again, and again and again and again. It's perfectly possible, it's
> just *incredibly fucking boring*. That wasn't the sort of gameplay that made me
> love the Metal Slug games in the first place, whereas the speedier, more fun
> style of MS4 and MS5, much closer to the first one, is.

i always considered it to be otherwise. i play ms3 "speedy" way myself... but "stop and consantly respawn" spots in ms4 are present in a much bigger numbers