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Neo Contra

Neo Contra is the sequel to Contra: Shattered Soldier. The game is a 3-D Shooter with lots of action and huge boss battles. Unlike Shattered Soldiers this game has a top-down perspective. The game is set in…

78 19 November 2004

Neo Contra is a shooter, released 19 November 2004 on PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 2.

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What Neo Contra is

Neo Contra was released in 2004. It was published by Konami. It is available on PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 2.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Contra is a 1987 run and gun video game developed and published by Konami for arcades. A home version was released for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1988, along with ports for various home computer formats, including the MSX2. The arcade and computer versions were localized as Gryzor in Europe, and the NES version as Probotector in the PAL region.
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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Contra series

Neo Contra is the 29th of 44 entries we hold in the Contra series. It arrived 2 years after Contra: Shattered Soldier. The next entry was Contra in 2006. Its critic score of 78 is 14 points above the series average of 64. The highest-rated entry is Vampire Survivors: Operation Guns at 95.

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How it was received

Neo Contra holds a critic score of 78 out of 100. That places it above 64% of the 3,305 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2004 averaged 70, so it scored 8 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Neo Contra launched on 19 November 2004, within three weeks of Half-Life 2, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II - The Sith Lords and World of Warcraft. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Half-Life 2, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II - The Sith Lords, World of Warcraft.

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When did Neo Contra come out?
Neo Contra was released on 19 November 2004 for PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 2.

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