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The fight for freedom continues in Super Contra! The alien menace, Red Falcon, has fought back and it's up to Lance and Bill to stop them. Play multiplayer over Xbox Live with upgraded graphics and sound. Do you have what it takes to save the world again?
In the early stages, you’re getting a lot of soldiers running at you—and all it takes is the slightest contact with a person, bullet or missile, and you’re toast. Later, it seems like everything but the kitchen sink is coming at you, including the oddest-looking alien creatures. Some levels are horizontal side scrollers, while others have you working your way vertically in a three-quarters overhead perspective.
The changes to the perspective provide enough challenge, but you also get different tiers of enemies, including some that are at ankle-level, such as gunmen lying prone behind sandbags or annoying turrets that pop out of the ground to fire knee-high at you. Just when you think you’re getting the hang of the foot soldiers running at you, Super Contra throws a miniboss at you. An example is the helicopter in Level 1, which has multiple guns that shoot a fan of bullets at you, as well as unloading a regular stream of soldiers leaping down at you.
Super Contra’s gameplay controls are simple: You move your character with the left stick or D-Pad, fire your weapon with the X Button and jump with the A Button (the button settings can be changed in the Options menu). Movement of your character consists of running left or right, or lying prone on the ground. When you hit the fire button, your gun shoots in whatever direction you’re headed (or up, down or a diagonal if you’re angling the stick/D-Pad that way).
It’s a simple control scheme…but the game is far from easy. Unlike most games, the faster you hit the fire button, the thicker your stream of bullets is, but the ratio of enemies to you is so dense that you’ll either need well-toned hands or a plan to pause regularly so you can shake them out.
One of the essentials is to keep an eye out for the enhanced-weapon pods that fly by, which when shot leave you a better gun to work with. You’ll need to keep that sucker firing, though, because if you die, you go back to your basic rifle. Enhanced weapons include a spread-fire gun and an automatic machine gun.
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Super Contra
- Published by: Konami
- Developed by: Konami
- Genre: Action
Release Date:
- North America (US): 7/25/2007
- Europe: Not Set
- Japan: 7/25/2007
- Australia: Not Set
* Author: vhayste
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