To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Metal Slug Franchise, the Anthology was released on the PS2. It contains 7 different Metal Slug games. Metal Slug, Metal Slug 2, Metal Slug X, Metal Slug 3, Metal Slug 4, Metal Slug 5 and the creatively titled Metal Slug 6, a brand new version for the PS2.

For those of you who have been living under a rock for a decade or who have never ventured into an arcade or run an emulator here is a quick summary; The Metal Slug games are a series of 2D (yes you heard right, good old two dimensional), sprite-based games developed by SNK. I would go as far to say that, along with the Streetfighter series, Metal Slug elevated pixels to the level of an art form. These are beautifully drawn games, oozing with humour in the animations and ladled lovingly with detail. Considering Metal Slug is knocking on for 10 years old and only runs at about 320 x 240 res it is still a good looking game (albeit a bit fuzzy on today's hardware).

You are met by wave upon wave of heavily armed soldiers with a variety of weapons, guns, grenades, flamethrowers, tanks, camels, planes etc. Throw into the mix the occasional Metal Slug armoured bosses, (think Metal Gear in cartoon form) and you get the picture.