Contra 4 Announced!

Contra III (SNES)

Konami, today, announced the arrival of the forth 'official' entry in their famous classic side-scrolling action arcade shooter, Contra. Contra 4 is slated for exclusive release on the Nintendo DS console sometime in the later half of 2007.

While Konami has published Contra games on various platforms since 'Contra III: The Alien Wars' on the SNES back in 1992, few have received outstanding reviews and/or have enjoyed the same degree of success as their Arcade, NES, GameBoy and SNES predecessors. In fact, the very fact that Konami has named this title 'Contra 4' seems to indicate that Konami will be returning to their roots with this title much in the same way Nintendo has with many of their recent releases ('New Super Mario Bros' being a big example).

I expect we will hear much more about this title come 'E3', 20 days from now. Somehow, I think I'll end up pre-ordering this one even before a single screen shot is released.