If you come to market promising to combine two much loved entities, you're going to have to be pretty sure of yourself. That's the case as Dogfight: A Sausage Bomber Story starts shooting 'em up on PC and console, as it looks to take the best bits of Metal Slug and the thrills of Top Gun as its own.
In a break from the old routine, the Xbox Games With Gold scheme saw the team at Xbox HQ push out no less than five free games to players through February, moving on up from the usual four titles that the programme has become synonymous with. But with March on the horizon it's time to start looking ahead once more, to the freebies given away through the Xbox Games With Gold scheme for March 2021. It's going to be a decent little month too. Possibly.
We've had numerous Metal Slug titles hit Xbox One over the last few months, with numbers 1 through to 4, X and XX all having previously dropped in on the library. Now though there's another and yet again the ACA Neogeo porting system is to blame as Metal Slug 5 launches on Xbox One.
If you like a bit of Metal Slug, then you have multiple options available on Xbox One thanks to the ports brought about via the ACA NEOGEO scheme. Now though another Metal Slug addition has arrived - ACA NEOGEO Metal Slug 4.
It may be fast approaching Christmas, but that doesn't mean the weekly NEOGEO additions to the Xbox One library are going to stop. Today we are seeing Metal Slug 3 fire into action.
You know how it works by now - every single week we seem to be seeing a new ACA NEOGEO title arrive on Xbox One. And this week is no different as another Metal Slug title hits the world's best console.
Back in the day, I was never allowed to have a Neo Geo console. The ridiculous cost of the unit itself (£399 at launch, equivalent to £700 now), added to the fact that the games used to regularly retail for over £100 a pop, made my Mum and Dad say "No!" and point out I still had a perfectly good Atari 2600 to play on. Parents eh? I think this is probably why my six year old son has a Wii U, 2DS and various other electronic devices to play with, if you'll forgive the amateur psychology. Anyway, moving on and as a result of this parental decision, I never got to play Metal Slug in the home until now, with the release of ACA NEO GEO Metal Slug for the Xbox One. So, has it been worth the 21 year wait?
We've recently seen NEOGEO World Heroes and NEOGEO Neo Turf Masters arrive on Xbox One - well, it seems those two titles have opened the floodgates for further Neogeo titles to arrive. And that's exactly what has happened today as two new, old, titles emerge onto the Xbox Games Store.
