Contra: Legacy of War

Intro

Main menu

Character selection

The level "Urban Warfare"

The first boss

Facing a tank.

Attacking a giant scorpion.

There are mini-games.

A shot from the mostly nonsensical intro

Another intro shot - this time featuring a spectacular explosion.

The main menu. Not shown - this game features a rather useless "3D mode" that presents the you with Contra in the eye-strain-o-vision.

Character select - not that it matters who you choose - they all look equally doofy, and play exactly the same.

A level 1 loading screen. You'll see this quite a bit.

Like in classic Contra games the player has to fight his way through a number of set-piece mid-boss battles in each level.

Fighting regular enemies - since the game is so hard and unfair, it's much easier to just dash past all the fluff between boss encounters.

Battling a crude polygonal tank.

Another mid-boss. This one has a predictable yet annoying attack pattern.

Yet another mid-boss. There is no strategy to kill this one - just point and shoot.

First level boss. Your biggest worry here is the camera position which fails to show all the enemies behind you.

Beginning level 2 - Jungle.

Fighting some sort of a flame-thrower-bot-thing.

Level 3 starts with a bunch of rocket-launching mechs.

The river battle

Auto-scrolling fight with a scorpion

Some kind of a pulsing scull-sphere mid-boss.

This is a very short stage where your player is in freefall, while fighting some sort of a large master-cylinder-looking robot.

Trapped inside the villain's brain, the player is forced to do some wholly impossible platform-jumping.

Battling a "virtual reality" tank.

Final level - move over Katamari Damacy and Psychonauts - this stage is spherical... though unlike the other games it features some truly terrible controls and camera.