Contra Hard Corps
Contra Hard Corps
Contra Hard Corps
Contra Hard Corps

Contra Hard Corps

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Four soldiers drop into a ruined city, and the first stage barely lets you find your footing before something enormous comes crashing through the scenery. That is the rhythm of Contra: Hard Corps, Konami's 1994 Genesis chapter of the series and the most relentless Contra had been up to that point. Set five years after the alien wars, it is packed with so many bosses and mid-bosses that it often plays like a boss rush with run-and-gun stretches in between, and every one of them seems designed to make you gasp before it kills you.

You pick from four very different members of the Hard Corps squad. Ray Poward and Sheena Etranzi are the classic commandos, Brad Fang is a wolfish cyborg, and Browny is a tiny combat robot whose presence gives the whole adventure a sillier edge. Each carries a personal arsenal in four weapon slots, A through D, with firepower like the homing gun, crush gun and needle laser, plus a supply of screen-clearing bombs. Losing a life costs whichever weapon you had equipped, so switching to the right gun before a risky moment becomes a skill of its own, and a second player can join in for simultaneous co-op.

What keeps Hard Corps fresh run after run is its branching story. After an early showdown with the mercenary Deadeye Joe, key decisions split the mission and send you down different stage sequences in pursuit of Colonel Bahamut, a former government scientist who has stolen an alien cell to breed bio-weapons. The endings range from heroic to bleak, one lets you throw in with Bahamut himself, and a secret arena battle leads somewhere stranger still. Hiroshi Kobayashi's pounding score keeps the adrenaline up the whole way.

The American cartridge carries a reputation of its own. Japan's Contra: The Hard Corps gave players a three-hit life gauge and unlimited continues, while the North American release keeps the series' classic one-hit deaths and caps you at five continues, making it one of the toughest action games on the console. Critics loved it anyway, Next Generation calling it the ultimate side-scrolling shooter, and its legacy reached as far as Arc System Works' prequel Hard Corps: Uprising. This is the Genesis Contra, harder-edged and stranger than its Nintendo cousins, and clearing it on the American settings is a badge worth earning.

Fast factsgame data via IGDB
Released
1994
Publisher
Konami
Players
Single player, Multiplayer, Co-op
About the game

Kickin' cyborg butt... That's what it's all about, dude. Jack into this game of genetic engineering gone bad. Real bad. It's five years after the mother of all wars ended - and things still aren't right. Your job is to fix it. The ever-popular Contra series makes its Sega Genesis debut with a pulse-pounding new storyline. At 16 megs, HARD CORPS pushes the technology to bring you over ten gut-wrenching levels with huge boss characters, great graphics and dynamic sound. Find high powered weapons such as the homing gun, crush gun, needle laser or mine setter. Do you think you can handle it? Trust me, you can't. You still here? Okay, then get ready for the fight of your life. Pick one of the four heroes and begin your search across many dark levels of doom. The ending changes, depending on the paths you choose - but every pass crosses boss characters that will blow you away. Literally!

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