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Since the game takes place in three dimensions, enemies come from all angles.

All characters start with a Machine Gun and Flame Thrower, but the remaining two slots are for character specific weaponry. Behind them, an arthropod-like alien is revealed to be hanging on the side of the rock.Įach character plays similarly except for the type of weapons they wield and their movement speed. The planet then explodes and the heroes are sent drifting in uncertainty on a broken piece of rock from the planet. Overcoming the mind games, the team is inexplicably teleported onto a satellite planet that houses the last of the alien threat, which is subsequently eliminated. Faced with several previously fought enemies, the four soldiers struggle to survive the onslaught of attacks in Bassad's degrading mind.

It is at this point that the plot takes a bizarre turn, where the team is absorbed into Bassad's brain as a last-ditch effort. Ray (returning from Contra: Hard Corps) is deployed to thwart Bassad's scheme along with three of the newest members of the Hard Corps team: Tasha, a female mercenary, CD-288, a robot, and Bubba, an alien.Īfter making their way from a city into a hidden mountain fortress, the Hard Corps subdues Colonel Bassad. Moreover, it is rumored that Bassad has allied himself with an unknown alien entity for his bid to world domination. The game was scheduled to be released in Japan as well, but was canceled.Ĭolonel Bassad, a dictator of a small Asian country, has managed to buy off a stolen alien embryo and is now using it to breed an army of fierce alien mutants. Legacy of War bears the distinction for being the first console game in the series to retain both the " Contra" title and human characters during its release in Europe and Australia (where the console series has been known as " Probotector" from the first NES game until Contra: Hard Corps). Legacy of War was released packaged with a pair of 3D anaglyph glasses, which the game supported. The game marks the series' jump to three-dimensional graphics and controversial changes in gameplay. It was the first of two Contra games that were externally developed by Appaloosa, followed by C: The Contra Adventure in 1998. A port was also planned for the Sega 32X, but was canceled due to the 32X's low popularity. Sega Saturn Controller Contra: Legacy of War is a 3D action game produced by Konami and developed by Appaloosa Interactive that was originally released in 1996 for the PlayStation and Sega Saturn.