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The fight for freedom continues! Reprise your role as either Bill Rizer or Lance Bean in this follow-up to the arcade classic Contra. The nefarious forces of Red Falcon have been wounded but they are far from defeated! The alien menace has taken control of a military installation in South America and they must be defeated for the sake of humanity. Experience the authentic gameplay of Super Contra with an updated look and feel by battling through several risky missions either solo or in two player co-op mode, just like in the original.

Genre: Action

Publisher: Konami

Developer: Konami

Online Play: 2 Co-op

Local Play: 2 Co-op

July 26, 2007 –
Before you even begin playing Super Contra, you can see the low level job that was done porting it to XBLA by Digital Eclipse. When you start up the “Arcade Game” mode, you are treated to the original opening story sequence. Digital Eclipse slapped a bar on top of this that tells you to press the A Button to begin, making it impossible to read the last few lines of the text introduction. We are not off to a good start here.

But then the game starts and it is the Super Contra you know and perhaps have fond memories of. The original arcade game was not exactly easy and the difficult task of beating the brief game holds to this day. On the standard XBLA settings, you’re afforded three lives and a limited number of continues. Take things online and you’re given eight lives, but no continues. For a short game, this might seem like enough. With the side scrolling, shooting madness that is Super Contra, only the skilled will make it through alive. It was designed to be a quarter-muncher, after all, so the level of difficulty is no joke.

Things are made more difficult yet when you factor in the Xbox 360 controller. The analog stick is unwieldy for games designed around old-school arcade sticks such as Super Contra. The d-pad