Contra ReBirth for Nintendo Wii from Konami

Contra ReBirth is a 2D run and gun video game from Konami for Wii. Contra Rebirth is the twelth installment in Contra series. It was released in Japan on May 12, 2009, PAL regions on September 4, 2009, and North America on September 7, 2009.

Contra ReBirth was manufactured by Konami in 2009 and released same year for the Nintendo Wii, it's the last 2D game for the Contra series and official part of the canon. Unfortunately, this part of Contra has a very small choice of weapons, you have only standard rapid fire machine gun, spread, laser and homing missiles. As for the video I have to warn you about two things:
- video is montaged, I had to cut every continue to make it fluid
- there are several slowdowns (mostly third stage, 5th boss and final boss), but there is no video/audio desynch.
Have Fun!

Contra ReBirth retains the same sprite-based side-scrolling gameplay as the series' earlier installments. The game can be played with the standard Wii Remote, as well as with the Classic Controller or a Nintendo GameCube controller. As with most Contra games, up to two players can play simultaneously. The player initially has a choice between two different player characters: Bill Rizer, the traditional Contra hero, or Genbei Yagyu from Neo Contra. Two additional characters: Brownie (Tsugumin in the Japanese version), an android shaped like a small girl; and Pliskin, a tall lizard-like humanoid alien (whose name is a tribute to the Snake Plissken movie character), can also be selected once the player has completed the game on Easy (Brownie) and Normal (Pliskin).

The dual weapon system from Contra III: The Alien Wars returns and the player's normal gun can now shoot in autofire once again. The power-ups in this installment consists of a Spread Shot, a Laser Gun and a Homing Gun. The traditional flamethrower, however, is missing. Playing on the Easy setting will allow the player to always keep their current weapon after losing a life, a feature not available in any of the other settings.

The game consists of five stages. However, the final boss stage, along with the true ending, cannot be accessed when playing on the Easy setting.

In 2633, the Neo-Salamander Force, led by their mysterious leader Chief Salamander, travel back to 1973 to take out the Contra force, while the Earth defenses are still primitive. They end up setting base on the ruins of the Shizuoka temple at the Yucatán Peninsula in Central America. Bill Rizer and Genbei Yagyu, two members of the present day Contra team, are deployed by the Galactic President to travel back in time to stop them. With the help of Browny, the robot, Pliskin, a lizard-like alien, and the samurai, Genbei Yagyu, the Contra warriors manage to take down the Neo Salamander Force. However, Chief Salamander is nowhere to be seen. In the true ending of the game, it is revealed Chief Salamander is actually "Pliskin", who has infiltrated the Contra unit under an assumed name.