Contra: Rogue Corps
CONTRA: ROGUE CORPS is a twin stick, third-person action game drawing upon its roots in fast and focused combat developed for the Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, and PC (STEAM). From the director of…
Contra: Rogue Corps is an arcade, released 24 September 2019 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Contra: Rogue Corps is
Contra: Rogue Corps was released in 2019. It was published by Konami. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
CONTRA: ROGUE CORPS is a twin stick, third-person action game drawing upon its roots in fast and focused combat developed for the Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, and PC (STEAM). From the director of CONTRA III: THE ALIEN WARS and CONTRA: HARD CORPS, Nobuya Nakazato instills more than 25 years of franchise pedigree into CONTRA: ROGUE CORPS with enormous crazed enemies, over-the-top violence, and a cast of diverse playable characters that add to the irreverent tone of the game. Several years after the events of the Alien Wars, CONTRA: ROGUE CORPS follows a former military group living on the fringes as bounty hunters and treasure finders in the Damned City. Survival requires fast…
How it plays
Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the Contra series
Contra: Rogue Corps is the 42nd of 44 entries we hold in the Contra series. The next entry was Contra: Operation Galuga in 2024. Its critic score of 47 is 17 points below the series average of 64. The highest-rated entry is Vampire Survivors: Operation Guns at 95.
How it was received
Contra: Rogue Corps holds a critic score of 47 out of 100. That places it above 8% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2019 averaged 69, so it scored 22 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Contra: Rogue Corps launched on 24 September 2019, within three weeks of Disco Elysium, Borderlands 3, GreedFall and The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (2019). All of them reviewed better. It arrived 6 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Disco Elysium, Borderlands 3, GreedFall, The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (2019).
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