Contra 3: The Alien Wars vs. Contra: Hardcorps

I was just wondering what are everyone's thoughts on these two games and how they compare to each other.

Personally, the first time I played Hardcorps I didn't much care for it. But then I gave it another shot and man... I was freaking hooked!

It has everything that was good about Contra 3 like the bike and hellicopter sections, removes the less than stellar portions of Contra 3 (the overhead levels) and add a TON of new content:

- 4 characters to choose from, all with different weapons

- 6 different endings (not counting when you finish said endings with different characters)

- Pseudo 3D graphical effects

- A robotical alien Simon Belmont

- A planet of the apes style ending where you marry a monkey

The game is so crazy and fast paced it's insane, but awesome. Really the only faults I have are the small character sprites and some of the sound effects are pretty weak when compared to the awesome sound effects from Contra 3

Thoughts?

[QUOTE="rilpas"][QUOTE="Stinger78"]I rented Contra III several times over a couple years, and didn't have a Sega Genesis until 1996, so that's probably why I prefer it over Hardcorps. Hardcorps isn't a bad game, and I didn't realize it had 6 different endings to it. Personally, I didn't really mind the overhead levels in III because they added variety. If you want a more modern Contra that has similarities to Harcorps, you'll have to check out Contra Rebirth for the Nintendo Wii.Stinger78

Ah I see. that's a shame :\

I don't own a Wii or a DS though

I was a nintendo fanboy, so I've sticked to the SNES, I didn't even know there was a contra for sega genesis until a few years ago when I started to play a lot of genesis games thanks to kegafusion. Ihave to say contra III was my favourite 16 bit contra until I found Hard Corps. 

Hard Corps is much faster, crazier and loud... It's probably my favourite contra (although I haven't played contra rebirth or contra 4 yet) 

I like Hard Corps more.Eikichi-Onizuka

I was a nintendo fanboy, so I've sticked to the SNES, I didn't even know there was a contra for sega genesis until a few years ago when I started to play a lot of genesis games thanks to kegafusion. Ihave to say contra III was my favourite 16 bit contra until I found Hard Corps. 

Hard Corps is much faster, crazier and loud... It's probably my favourite contra (although I haven't played contra rebirth or contra 4 yet) 

8-BitPenguin

Yeah,I´d say the Probotector is the best Contra game ever made,for sure.Nanomage

Hard Corps. It's just bigger and better. It also had one of my favorite Genesis' commercials ever. :D

Hard Corps is better, imo.

But Contra 3 is very good too.

the best contra game.AtariKidX

No, that's the NES Contra. ;)

[QUOTE="AtariKidX"]the best contra game.nameless12345

No, that's the NES Contra. ;)