Contra: Hard Corps.
SYSTEM
Sega Genesis
DEVELOPER
Konami
PUBLISHER
Konami
LOWDOWN
A buff dude, a barely dressed woman, a werewolf and a cute lil' robot go out to kick some ass and chew bubble gum.
...But they're all out of bubble gum.
I did have a SNES when it first came out with classics like Mega Man X, Super Castlevania IV and Contra III: The Alien Wars, but we moved to Georgia and that went into storage. So a wee bit later, I got a Sega Genesis because it was cheap I guess and my parents happen to be cheap themselves. And the rest is histroy.
The Genesis was just great. It had the best Jurassic Park games, the best Castlevania ever (Bloodlines), great action titles like Sonic the Hedgehog 2 and Rocket Knight Adventures, Phantasy Star, Golden Axe, Streets of Rage, Ecco, ect ect ect ect ect. And last but not least, the greatest Contra of all time, Contra: Hard Corps.
Contra: Hard Corps takes place five years after the third game, The Alien Wars. The Hard Corps. are called out to deal with rampaging robots in the city but that turns out just to be a distraction while a group of terrorists break into a lab complex to steal an alien egg from the last game.
You can play as one of four Contra's, Ray, you're standered Contra grunt who has the typical weapons like homing missils and spread shot. Sheena, a scantly cladded chick with quick but "ah im a girl"-stereotype weapons (i.e. weak), Brad, a badass wolf/human hybrid who's out to prove guns are for pussies and uses melee weapons. For skilled players, only. And my favorite, Browny, this munchin of a robot who has a double jump and some devistating weapons.
Right off the bat this game throws you into action. From the get go of stage one, your APC you're riding in comes plowing through the city streets that are on fire and crashes, sending the heroes fly out the windshield, guns a blazing. Explosions are everywhere and a spider-bot thing comes careening out of a building only to crash into another one, tumbeling that over which you use to climb to the roof tops where you fight a giant cyclops machine who likes to shoot you with hot death and then you have a showdown with a guy, about taller than you by five feet (the heroes are all about six feet) who happens to enjoy cutting sky scrapers down as a hobby.
That's all just in the first level. Other levels include running on foot down a freeway while being chased by a crazy-armed-dancing robot thing, fighting against a hologram that takes shapes of all the celestrial beings, motorcycle scenes that put Terminator 2: Judgment Day to shame, batteling a robot that takes pleasure in throwing the train you're riding on like a toy, being thrown into a arena where you fight a Simon Belmont-robot with a afro (and to top that off, a techno remix of "Vampire Killer" is in the background) and then one of the last bosses is fought on top of a missile that's flying into space.
If that all didn't make you yern to play this game, then something is wrong with you. So stop reading this and find anyway, ANY, to play Contra: Hard Corps.
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