a PERFECT !!! review

This game is a darn near PERFECT port. But first let me talk about the Uneducated Whiners that almost discouraged me from buying this game. Know what your talking about! This game LOOKS perfect for an INTENTIONALLY pixelated nostalgic purpose game port... It is supposed to look pixelated you dummies! Nobody want this to look iOS graphics-ish...if they made a Metal Slug part 9 then its ok if the graphics were updated as it is a totally new game.
Second...the controls are PERFECT....stop comparing it to an actual Joypad....this is a touch screen with VIRTUAL controls...and they do a pretty good Job.....want more realistic? Get the Logitech Joystick for iPad.....its a suction cup joypad that works great....in some cases you can use two of them, one for control and the other for fire buttons if the buttons are aranged in a North South East West way and resized like in King Of The Fighters 97 for iOS.

This game has ALOT of EXCELLENT Video display options to make it look like you were really playing on a 720x480 or perhaps 352x240 monitor.....which is EXACTLY what this game was running on and IS supposed to look like! So the graphics DO NOT need updating dummies! ThIs isnt supposed to look like Rayman...as a matter of fact, I would be quite upset if it didnt have the scanlines and Video blur options....as a game that was made to run on an old CRT streched to fit a 1024x768 iPad screen WOULD indeed look like crap.

Back to my game review...its GREAT!

My Hardware (iPad 2 64gb WiFi + 3G Verizon with iOS 6.1.3) everyone should always list your specs when reviewing the game so the company knows how to better respond.

My recommendations to SNK

1. Change the main menu of all your iOS games to look like the original Neo Geo ones....the currently High resolution menus give High hopes to people to expect the game to look like the Menus, and the sudden shock from super clear Retina gfx in the menu to sudden Pixelized good ole CRT graphics can be confusing.

2. Add more options to the scanlines and Video blur for Retina Display owning iOS users.....ad the ability for the scanlines to be Double Thick so that it again looks like a CRT...currently the scanlines are real tiny and compressed making the Retina version looking different and hardly as noticeable as non Retina Display iOS devices.

3. Add options to resize and make more visible or more transparent to the controls....such as in King Of The Fighters....do this to all your games all across the board as well as add iCade support if not already implemented and the supposed new iOS7 joypad to be released.

4. It wouldnt hurt to put the Neo Geo logo when the game starts instead of that SNK Playmore which seems degrading. That Playmore should be placed somewhere else and less conspicous...not that the name is bad or anything...but Logo recognition is extremely important.

To everyone who has the same specs iPad as I...get this! Especially if you LOVE 16 bit console games with CRT scanlines.

Best games I have bought for iPad so far: King Of The Fighters 97 and Metal Slug 2.

leirbag28 about METAL SLUG 2