Metal Slug III XBLA

[JamesS]

According to Insert Credit you can get the blood by setting your 360 to Japanese. If that's true, I wonder why it's not on by default? If it's in the game, the ratings boards would take it into account, no matter what language you have to select to see it.

[ChrisF]

That's quite ironic if true, given that if you've a Japanese PS3 then you often have blood REMOVED from games!

[dvdmike]

The filter is just plain wrong the smudgy look does not suit an SNK game

[Ajay1986]

Not tried it yet but i agree that from those screenshots it doesn't look too good, it looks like one of them dodgy filters you can apply in alot of emulators too smooth things out.

[chopemon]

The filter is just plain wrong the smudgy look does not suit an SNK game

Totally agree.

It looks really horrid.

It's the same thing that ruined the look of Fatal Fury.

[Silvergun X]

So... About the actual game, then.

Or is it just a filter download?

[jimtendo]

According to Insert Credit you can get the blood by setting your 360 to Japanese. If that's true, I wonder why it's not on by default? If it's in the game, the ratings boards would take it into account, no matter what language you have to select to see it.

Just tried it.
Untrue unfortunately.

[Ouenben]

I say you guys are bitching over nothing. Very little difference between the screens IMO except the 360 version doesn't seem to have as much colour

[SuperBeatBoy]

i can't stand the eagle filter. They have a right too bitch about it because it looks ****ing hideous, give me clean pixels anyday of the week.

[BluntX]

Got it last night. Switching the Language (not the Locale) does indeed change the blood from white back to original red. It's sort of cool, kind of like a region switchable Neo-Geo AES or the dip switches on MAME, but still it makes you wonder why have it this way at all. Why not a selectable in the games option? An update to allow this would be great.

[Kubrick]

I say you guys are bitching over nothing.

Indeed. You'd think the game was completely broken or something.

Using a joystick, I can find nowt wrong with the controls (or the white blood, since that's what the English version should have) and the slowdown seems accurate. If I was to nit-pick, there's a big pause when you unlock an achievement and the leaderboards don't disqualify scores that have been earned by credit-feeding. I would've prefered an option to turn off the border art as well. Other than that, it's a decent port of a superb game.

[Brats]

The filter is just plain wrong the smudgy look does not suit an SNK game

But it's not smudgy.

I downloaded this expecting the worst, but the filter itself is surprisingly good. It's better than any filter used on any other Live Arcade game and I'm fairly sure it's not the Eagle filter (which does blur the image). It looks like the high quality filter used in ZSNES to the point where the graphics almost look like they have been redrawn at a higher resolution (which of course they haven't).

I do agree that the game should have come with the option to run without the filter, but it doesn't bother me at all and usually I hate filters.

[Uli]

i've downloaded this from the US marketplace but nevertheless i got the European version with no blood effects.

also, 800 points for a version that has got loading times, massive slowdown and cheap texture filter, but still dares to call itself HD, is pure insolence!

[ChrisF]

i've downloaded this from the US marketplace but nevertheless i got the European version with no blood effects.

You need your machine's language set to Japanese to get blood apparently.

[C']

Isn't the slowdown just what was there in the arcade original anyway?