![]() Its suped-up, realistically detailed graphics that capture the feel of each area very successfully most definitely help immerse you in the experience. Contra offers a wide variety of areas for mayhem. Dark, demolished and dirty cities to run through, snowy hills to slide down and complicated bridges over a blue lake of water to travel upon. Each gun has a unique rate of fire the Fire Whip, for example, works much like a flamethrower, whereas the Heavy Machine gun works as a typical rapid-fire weapon.Īccompanying the guns are the beautiful graphics which present them. Oddly missing is the series favorite spread gun, which fires bullets that spread much like a shotgun’s. Available is the Heavy Machinegun, the Fire Whip and the Diver Mine using Normal Shot, or Round Sweep, Energy Shot and Homing Missile using Charge Shot. The game’s three weapons come in two fire modes, and all must be used in order to conquer the game (realistically speaking for the average gamer I’m sure a hard-core Contra nut could beat the game with a single gun). However, it’s not so much how you control yourself and utilize these abilities that makes the game fun rather, it’s dodging the enemy’s bullets with your twitch reflexes without realizing what you’re utilizing. Your options as to what to do are limited: shoot, jump, crouch to the ground, lie flat. You move immediately to your right - the same direction you’ll be following throughout the vast majority of the game - and you’ll quickly come into contact with a seemingly endless swarm of bad guy after bad guy after bad guy. Once you select your level, you’ll be thrown right into the action. You’re immediately given four levels to select from, and it doesn’t really matter as to which one you do first, though they are numbered, so you can follow that if you insist. Shattered Soldier will be instantly familiar with Contra veterans as the menus share a resemblance to the menus of yore, as do the sounds and feel. It’s this old-school shooter gameplay that fuels Shattered Soldier and allows it to succeed. It also gives you no health to speak of take one shot, and you bite the dirt. The Contra games run on a relatively simple concept: shoot everything that’s bad and don’t get shot yourself. Ladies and gentlemen, our bad boy is back. Taking notes from Contra on the NES, Super C and other 2D Contra games, Shattered Soldier also hits the nail on the head, with a wide array of weapons and controller throwing difficulty. After making an attempt at 3D gaming (and failing horribly), Contra returns to form in Shattered Soldier. In a generation where 2D games belong to Gameboys, DSs and PSPs, it’s always nice and refreshing to see a 2D game on a home console. Ladies and gentlemen, our bad boy is back." ![]() ![]() "In a generation where 2D games belong to Gameboys, DSs and PSPs, it’s always nice and refreshing to see a 2D game on a home console. Contra: Shattered Soldier (PlayStation 2) review
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