They can block the cannon (requiring three shells to remove them), tear down the Vulcan off, or place a grenade inside the cockpit. In the first game only starting from Mission 4, enemies will attempt to grab onto the SV-001.

However, collecting the NORM shell reverts the cannon back to the normal arc trajectory and power again. If equipped with Armor Piercing shells, its cannon will fire at a faster rate and in a straight trajectory, tearing through some enemy vehicles with ease. Its sheer strength and weight can crush cars and knock infantry out of the way with ease despite its high agility. Pressing the secondary weapon button while crouching will instead use the player's grenades. The SV-001 is a light armored tank that features Vulcan guns and a cannon firing powerful shells. This is the Regular Army's main battle tank. Metal Slug is the perfect run and gun game that everyone should play at least once.The first Slug to appear in the Metal Slug series it is also the most seen vehicle in all of their games. The difficulty level is just right in Metal Slug, meaning anyone can pick it up and play, but there’s enough challenge to keep you playing for a while. They’re all brilliant and not too difficult, but not too easy to beat. When you get to the end of the levels, there are fantastic, huge boss battles waiting for you. It just makes that much more fun to play. So that all sounds pretty cool, right? But that’s not it, you can also jump into tanks and vehicles along the way, allowing you to cause even more destruction. You start the game armed with just a pistol and some grenades (and a knife for close combat), but along the way you can pick up everything from machine guns to shotguns to flamethrowers to rocket launchers etc. After choosing your character you drop straight into the action. You run and fight your way through awesomely designed levels, saving hostages and generally kicking ass, shooting everything in sight. This game is best played in 2 player mode, but is still awesome if you’re playing alone. When you load up Metal Slug, you are given a choice of two different characters. Which is my favourite? The very first game. I’m talking about the awesome, the explosive Metal Slug games. So eventually I gravitated towards another series, one I actually ended up enjoying far more than Contra. I did start to get into Hard Corps a bit once I worked out some strategies, but damn those games are unforgiving. Don’t get me wrong, awesome games, but I suck at them. I’ve gone back to both Contra 3 and Hard Corps to try and review them for this blog of mine, but nope, can’t do it. The main one though was the Contra series, but fuck me, that series was hard as nails. There’s a few run-and-gun, side-scrolling shooting games I really enjoyed growing up.

Consoles: Arcade, Neo Geo, Neo Geo CD, Sega Saturn, PlayStation (later: Every console ever).

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