Webgame Wednesday : Commando

Via Wikipedia

Metal Slug is a series of run and gun video games first released on Neo-Geo arcade machines and game consoles created by SNK. It was also ported to other consoles, such as the Sega Saturn, the PlayStation, the Neo-Geo Pocket Color and more recently, the Game Boy Advance, PlayStation 2 and Xbox. There is also an anthology of the first 7 games in the main series (including Metal Slug X) available for the Wii, PlayStation Portable, and PlayStation 2.

Metal Slug is a massively popular series so it was only a matter of time before someone created a web version.

Commando is it!

Commando is set in a different universe to Metal Slug. The setting is World War II and you have to "Defend the Allies from the scourge of Europe".

The default controls are pretty awful but once you change to Keyboard controls the game changes entirely. Now you can shoot your way through 4 missions eventually arriving at the biggest baddest boss in the world (maybe not the world - but this game for certain).

Graphically the game lives up to it's inspiration very well - it uses a similar stylised pixellated aesthetic to great effect - and that adds immensely to the charm game.

Below is a movie of one of the Miniclip forum goers completing the game in the quickest time he can. Don't watch it if you don't want the game spoiled!

Personally I've sunk a fair few hours into playing Commando, I highly recommend it.