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Contra III: The Alien Wars

Contra 3: The Alien Wars, Contra Spirits, Contra III, Contra 3

Summary:

This game is action from beginning to end, do not think that you will have a moment of peace, even because Aliens are at war with planet earth, and resting will be your least concern.

Storyline:

Set in the futuristic year 2636, two years after the events of Super Contra (Previous version released for the NES). The protagonists Bill Rizer and Lance Bean are called once again, against an alien invasion. Taking advantage of Super NES technology, in this game the graphics are improved compared to previous games. It is considered by many the best game of the Contra series. This game offers a lot of weapons, at first you have a precise but very weak machine gun, some of the weapons are: missiles, flamethrowers, laser, shot that reaches a wide area, extremely strong missile, among others, each with Their advantage and disadvantage. The game bosses are a strong point of Contra III, they are very scary, big and well made, each with a different skill and different ways to be defeated, which leaves the game very unpredictable, you never know how to defeat that boss , And dying in them is almost certain. In most phases there is also a mini-bosses, this is very easy to defeat. The gameplay is excellent, the joystick commands respond perfectly, the characters shoot in any direction, lay on the floor, jump, scale the wall, do almost everything. The graphics are great and original and the Aliens are different from what we are used to seeing and have a horrifying look.

Ratings:

IGDB

8

HowLongToBeat

7.7

HowLongToBeat:

Main story
2h
Main + extra
2h
Completionist
4h
Co-op
1h

Achievements:

RA
RetroAchievementsSNES/Super Famicom
30

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Release dates

Feb 28, 1992: Unknown platform (Japan)

Apr 06, 1992: Unknown platform (North America)

1992: Unknown platform (Korea)

1992: Unknown platform (North America)

Jan 16, 2007: Unknown platform (Japan)

Jan 19, 2007: Unknown platform (Australia)

Jan 19, 2007: Unknown platform (Europe)

Jan 29, 2007: Unknown platform (North America)

Apr 26, 2008: Unknown platform (Korea)

Nov 27, 2013: Unknown platform (Japan)

Nov 28, 2013: Unknown platform (North America)

Jan 07, 2014: Unknown platform (Europe)

May 09, 2016: Unknown platform (Japan)

May 12, 2016: Unknown platform (Europe)

May 19, 2016: Unknown platform (North America)

Multiplayer

Campaign Co-op, Offline Co-op (up to 2), Splitscreen, Offline players: 2