Since the game takes place in three dimensions, enemies come from all angles. All characters start with a machine gun and flamethrower, but the remaining two slots are for character-specific weaponry. With it destroyed, the team is drifted in space, and a surviving small alien bug is seen hiding.Įach character plays exactly the same except for the type of weapons they wield and their movement speed. With Bassad defeated, they are teleported to the alien entity, which turns out to be a small living planet. After making the way to Bassad's Mountain Stronghold, the team defeats him in his armored pod, but is dragged into his mind for a final battle. Ray Poward (returning from 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. 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 cancelled.Ĭolonel Bassad, a dictator of a small country, has become a threat and is amassing an army of soldiers, robots, and 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 marks the series' shift to three-dimensional graphics and gameplay, the game was released packaged with a pair of 3D anaglyph glasses, which enables the player to view the 3D effects incorporated into the game's graphics. It is a follow-up to Contra: Hard Corps, and was the first of two games in the Contra series that were externally developed by Appaloosa the second game, C: The Contra Adventure, was released in 1998.

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.

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