Metal Slug: Awakening

Metal Slug: Awakening

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Tencent · Shoot 'Em Up · Jul 19, 2024

It depends on what you're after.

It's free to play.

68%
Mixed
4k player reviews
Medium confidence
Buy it if you like
  • Graphics: 36 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Gameplay: 33 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Multiplayer: 22 reviews raised it, mostly praise
Think twice if you dislike
  • Performance: 8 reviews raised it, mostly criticism

Based on 4k player reviews · updated 2 days ago

What players think

The recurring themes across 300 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.

Why players love itThings to know
46% of themes are praise45% are divided9% are caveats
Graphics
Players who bring up Graphics mostly praise it.
The art style isn't actually bad in-game, but again, I'm just wishing they kept pumping out even half-baked Metal Slug games instead of this.
36 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Gameplay
Players who bring up Gameplay mostly praise it.
Gameplay, outside of being entirely too easy, is pretty fun, but there are far too many hoops to jump through to get to it.
33 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Multiplayer
Players who bring up Multiplayer mostly praise it.
But flow of the single player game comes to a screeching halt when after a few bosses, you're whisked away to multiplayer land, because the next story mission is locked behind your player's level, which would take forever to increase without multiplayer.
22 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Co-op
Players who bring up Co-op mostly praise it.
The co-op experience and challenge modes make it engaging.
8 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Audio
Players who bring up Audio mostly praise it.
This is like a modern version of the old MS like Fortnite and Free Fire with cartoonish and childish graphics and voice acting, a nice distraction for 1 hour from time to time.
6 of 300 sampled reviews raised it

Theme by theme

Every theme is scored by what reviewers actually said about it, not just whether they recommended the game.

LovedMixedComplained about
Players love5 themes
Graphics36 reviews
Gameplay33 reviews
Multiplayer22 reviews
Co-op8 reviews
Audio6 reviews
Divided opinion% still recommend
Monetization84 reviews
35%
Story and characters51 reviews
47%
Combat28 reviews
39%
Difficulty8 reviews
13%
Controls7 reviews
43%
Players complain% still recommend
Performance8 reviews
50%

Ranked by how many sampled reviews mention each topic. A topic sits in a column by what reviewers said about that topic; the percentage beside it is how many of them recommended the game anyway. One more theme was raised by fewer than 6 sampled reviews and is not shown.

The data behind the verdict

For the players who want the receipts.

Player review score
68%
Mixed
Playing right now
Achievements
0
total to unlock
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Average playtime
Not tracked yet

We’ll surface hours-played once playtime ingestion ships.