METAL SLUG 3

◇Normal Gun	◇The Special Weapons
◇BIG SHOT ITEM	◇JUMBO CHARACTER
◇Changing Projectile Items	◇Etcetera Items

　The character is equipped with a hand-gun at first, and will be able to get strong weapons by getting various items during the stages.

　There is no limitation of ammunition to the normal hund-gun, though the other weapons have limitation of ammunition.

◇ Normal Gun（Standard equipment）

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◎ HUND-GUN

Standard equipment of the player.
Man characters are equipped with a automatic hand-gun and female characters with a revolver.

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◇ The Special Weapons

◎ HEAVY MACHINE-GUN

High firing rate machine gun.
Concentrated one-point shooting or scattering shooting is possible. Very useful weapon.

◎ ROCKET LAUNCHER

Launches guided missiles.
Missiles explode when they hit the target and their blast is also effective against enemies.

◎ SHOT GUN

Powerful weapon for approaching attack.
Effective range is very short but the power is the strongest.

◎ FLAME SHOT

Flame thrower against human
Throws many fire bolls by one shot and burns up all enemies in your way.

◎ LASER SHOT

Lauches laser beam against tanks.
The beam penetrates human enemies and give continuous hits to tanks.

◎ ENEMY CHASER

Lauches homing missiles. The power is a little weaker than Rocket Launcher but it has the high accuracy.

◎ SUPER GRENADE

Launches grenades against tanks.
Though ammunition is small, the power is awful.

◎ IRON LIZARD

Lauches the self-creeping missiles.
When they are launched, the missiles advance climbing over any obstacle on the way.

◎ DROP SHOT

Lauches the bounding bullets.
They don't go straight but they go ahead bounding.

◎ THUNDERCLOUD

Meteorological small weapon that makes thundercloud.
The thunder cloud is made of micro machines and searches enemies automatically and give a thunder from the sky.

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◇ BIG SHOT ITEM

Get Power Up Items to activate technology that electronically changes the shape of your memory-alloy rifle, allowing you to use high-caliber bullets.
Packs more destructive punch than the regular Power Up Gun.

◎ BIG HEAVY MACHINE GUN

Lets you fire large caliber machine gun rounds.
Reduces those annoying holes in your barrages with the ability to fire high-caliber bullets automatically.

◎ BIG ROCKET LAUNCHER

Fires a big, bad ballistic missile.
Increase your blast range to wipe out hordes of enemy soldiers in a flash.

◎ BIG LASER SHOT

Fire a wide-bore laser.
This little honey gets rid of all your aiming worries and makes you invincible.
CHANGING PROJECTILE ITEM (C Button Attack while Unarmed)
Push the C Button when your not riding a vehicle to attack enemies with lobbed objects.
Projectiles are limited. And when these items are all used up, you have to go find a new supply.

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◇ JUMBO CHARACTER

Pick up too much food items in special stages, and your character
will blow up like a beach ball.

But this means the power of normal attacks,Power Up Gun attacks and thrown-item attacks increases, and they can be combined in a wealth of variations. To get back to fighting fitness, try dieting or wait until the Jumbo time limit runs out.


Normal Character	Chow down on too much food...	and turn into a JUMBO Character!

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◇ Push the C Button to use Changing Projectile Items.

Pick these items up while riding a vehicle to change weapons
activated by the C Button.

◎ ARMOR PIERCER (For Metal Slug Only)

A metal-plate-piercing shell for use against armored vehicles.
These are fired in a straight line at terrifying speed to slice through enemy personnel and severely damage vehicles.