Contra 4 is awesome. And it is awesome in exactly the same ways as the classic games that bear the crest of Contra. Contra 4 is also mean. And it is mean in exactly the same ways as its forebears.

Contra games are hard. There’s no denying it. It’s hard to stay alive when alien beings are trying to gun you down, robots are trying to stomp you, and gruesome creatures want to devour you. Contra 4, ...

GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. Contra’s back, and this time it’s on the Nintendo DS. To celebrate ...

"Contra 4 takes place two years after the events of Contra III: The Alien Wars. After saving earth from invasion by Red Falcon, Bill Rizer and Lance Bean are confronted with a new extraterrestrial ...

Konami announced they are developing Contra 4 (working title) for the Nintendo DS. Contra 4 takes place after the events of Contra III: The Alien Wars and introduces a new alien force, the Black Viper ...

They just don't make them like this anymore. Contra 4 is a game about which that old cliche can be accurately put forth without coming off as selectively nostalgic. In this case, it is a simple ...

Contra 4 brings the Contra series back to its arcade roots with a long vertical screen and throws in a grappling hook with good measure. The E3 demo pushed players in a jungle level where alien troops ...

It's nostalgia that binds me to the Contra series. Since I first played "Gryzor" in a caravan park's amusement arcade in the late '80s I've been a fan of the series, enjoying a great Amstrad CPC port, ...

The Contra series, like any great and popular videogame franchise, has been spun-out into sequels almost at a bi-yearly rate since the creation in the arcade two decades ago. Contra games have been ...

Konami has decided to celebrate Contra's twentieth anniversary by making the best Contra yet. When I first heard that Contra 4 was being developed for the DS, I doubted that the game would be any good ...

Konami’s Contra (AKA Gryzor, Probotector) is one of those franchises that has struggled to make the transition from 2D to 3D. After the excellent arcade and 8-bit editions, lucky SNES and Megadrive ...

Contra 4 serves as an homage to the Contra franchise as a whole, as well as a reminder of a time when the difficulty of a game was borne more of memorization and reflexes than of complex control ...