Metal Slug in HD?

[Goemar]

SNK Playmore has revealed that it is looking into giving the aging Metal Slug series an HD refit, potentially taking the shooting franchise down the same path as the forthcoming King of Fighters XII.

"In order to meet our fans demands for an HD version of Metal Slug, we're considering bringing this series to the new generation of consoles in a similar way to KOF XII," said SNK Playmore in an interview with IGN to be published later today, continuing, "We look forward to announcing this someday soon."

Wow SNK actually making a good decision with Metal Slug for a change. Hopefully this will mean the new style of backgrounds will be no more! Now let us all pray the game doesn't suck.

[Comix]

As long as they don't make it 3D. I hate to see franchises so great move away from sprite based gameplay.

[LeleleleMAXIMUM]

Goodbye pixelart.

[Goemar]

Hopefully this just means some nice new HD sprites - I don't think SNK will be making Metal Slug 3D again anytime soon after the last "incident."
I mean King of the Fighters XII has some pretty awesome looking sprites.

[Alpha Six]

As long as they don't make it 3D. I hate to see franchises so great move away from sprite based gameplay.

The KOF series did, although it didn't exactly "move away" from 3D, especially considering KOF XII. The first 3D game, Maximum Impact, may have been bad, but 2006 (aka MI 2) ruled hard. It almost perfectly matched the old-school 2D gameplay while adding some new features.

regardless, i am super into SNK, and i can't wait to see what they do with this.
Although I have NEVER been good at Metal Slug

[Goemar]

'Tis all about practice.