Contra 4 . is a 2D action game for the Nintendo DS and the eleventh original installment in the Contra series. The plot is set in 2638, two years after the events of Contra III: The Alien Wars and three years before the events of Contra: Hard Corps. In the timeline presented in the manual and official...
Contra 4 . is a 2D action game for the Nintendo DS and the eleventh original installment in the Contra series. The plot is set in 2638, two years after the events of Contra III: The Alien Wars and three years before the events of Contra: Hard Corps. In the timeline presented in the manual and official website, the events of Operation C are interpreted as a previous mission of "Mad Dog" and "Scorpion" - two new characters created specifically for Contra 4, against the Black Viper. Contra 4 is based on the same 2D gameplay system featured in the series through Contra III: The Alien Wars, ignoring many of the game mechanics introduced in later games such as the fixed weapon configurations in Contra: Shattered Soldier and [game]Neo Contra[/game], returning to the old method of picking up power-up icons to obtain new weapons. The action in these stages is displayed solely on the upper screen, while the bottom screen is used to display the stage's map and the locations of power-ups. Arcade Mode is the main portion of the game, which is composed of six standard stages and three tunnel stages, for a total of nine stages.