Contra Force is an action shooting game released by Konami for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1992 in North America. It is a spinoff of the Contra series, being the third game in the series released for the NES following the original Contra and Super Contra, although the game's plot and setting are unrelated to previous entries, as the villains in the game are human terrorists instead of an alien menace In 1992, C-Force, a task force composed of former military professionals, is formed to protect Neocity from terrorism. One day, the team's leader, Burns, receives a phone call from their informant Fox, who tells him that the Head of Intelligence is being threatened by a criminal organization known as D.N.M.E. Burns arranges a meeting at the Harbor with Fox to learn more about the situation, only to find out Fox's corpse when he arrives at the destination.Now it is up to C-Force to save Neocity from D.N.M.E.
ShooterArcadeActionScience fictionmodern warfaremurderdeathrun and gunside-scrollinghigh scoreexplosionmodern militarycheat codeNintendo Entertainment System
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Character
Plot-driven, grave, unpretentious and earnest.
- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
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- Platforms
- Nintendo Entertainment System
- Developer
- Konami
- Publisher
- Konami
- Released
- September 30, 1992
- Modes
- Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
- Perspective
- Side view
IGDB rating 7.1/10 from 48 ratings.
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