The first is a dangerously addictive theme, featuring a catchy percussion, heroic melodies, and sweet guitar samples that have a "James Bond" influence. The only rocking compositions of the soundtrack are "The Scene of a Hard Battle", "Let's Run Through!" and "Furiously", and all of them are highlights of the album. The track instills fear and a sense of hidden danger, while still managing to be catchy in its minimalistic bliss. "Cadaverous" on the other hand creepily dwells into ambient territory, featuring terrifying sound effects, muddy rhythms, and eerie piano notes. The latter is particularly fantastic and memorable. This is very noticeable in "Go Ahead!", which is a dramatic militaristic anthem, and even more in "Show Spirit" that has heroic melodies, despite an almost upbeat rhythm. While older Metal Slug scores were generally over-the-top and hellishly fun, almost appropriate for the nature of shoot 'em ups, this time the compositions are slightly more edgy, mainly because the instruments sound more realistic and give to the music a more serious tone. I am mentioning this because I will use the "incorrect" titles for each composition when reviewing the soundtrack. The actual track list is OK, but the audio tracks themselves are not correct. Certain audio tracks are incorrectly ordered, like track 10 is actually track 4, and so on. Bodyīefore moving on with the actual music, there is a notable problem with the official track list that cannot be ignored. The soundtrack was packaged exclusively in the Metal Slug Complete Sound Box in 2006. The tone of the music is slightly more serious, without the over the top nature of the typical Metal Slug soundtrack, but still proves fairly charming and memorable. He also shited the musical style shifted towards rock and synth orchestral hybrids. He offered vastly superior audio quality, due to the new and improved hardware and samplers, with instruments sounding full and authentic (a far cry from the synthy sound of the previous entries). Toshikazu Tanaka, a veteran video game composer from SNK's assembly of musicians, composed the soundtrack for Metal Slug 4. The only redeeming quality of this installment was the music. Metal Slug 3 didn't make matters easier, since living up to its success was almost impossible, since the bar was raised so high. Technically, it wasn't an awful game, but the lack of originality and the recycled material made for a less than stellar title. It was developed by the Korean Mega Enterprise after the decline of the old SNK. Metal Slug 4 was, in the words of many fans, a disaster. Metal Slug 4 Complete Box Soundtrack :: Review by George
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