Me and my little brother began playing it at around 2:40pm, and by around 3:10pm we beat the game on normal difficulty setting. My thoughts....I loved it!!! Contra games aren't supposed to be long, they are however supposed to be hard. I found that playing it with a partner the game was pretty easy, however if you want a real challenge, I'd set the difficulty to hard and play alone (with a friend jeering/cheering in the background). So, did anyone else buy this game today?

I bought it and yeah, it's an awesome game, this is the Contra game I've been waiting for on home consoles since Contra III. Took me about a couple hours playing through on normal, difficulty was about what I expected, I'll be getting my ass handed to me when I'm playing it on hard mode.

I downloaded it earlier today too...but only had time to play it a little bit. The only complaint I have so far is that you can't run while you're shooting anymore. If you start shooting, your character comes to a complete stop.

what platforms is it on?only Wii?

Right now it's only on Wii.

I love contra,sadly I don't own a wii though. Guess I'll settle for getting the one on ds. Megamanfan1500 what do you mean contra isn't supposed to be long? The majority of then have have at least 8 stages except for contra three and hardcorps for genesis was very long with multiple paths. How many stages does this game have? I've never heard of anybody beating any of the older contra games in 30 minutes as they were hard ass hell.

thanx dude

About the length...well it's only five levels. I can't speak about "Hard Corps" because I still haven't beaten it. But, I have beaten Contra 3 on the normal setting, and it's about 6 stages long. Super C is about the same. In my opinion, the newer Contras aren't really that long because they are built around the premise of beating it multiple times on the different difficulty levels. With that being said, It is a *tad* easy on the 2-player mode, however this is just one man's opinion...

I take back what I said earlier...about not being able to shoot while you're running. When I first played it, I was playing with the WiiMote, and the default controls had it set so the same button controlled fire and position hold. I played it with the classic controller earlier, and realized the default controls needed to be changed.

Anyway, it's a pretty good game...but I feel a little bit more could have been done to make it better. It should have had more then only 4 weapons (standard, spread, homing, and laser), it should have more stages then just 5, and it should have had the bombs from Contra III.

Man only 5 stages,that soounds really short. Have any of you guys played contra 4 for the ds? I'm play this now and it rocks. It has at least 8 stages and is two players. You guys should also ckeck out contra hardcorps for genesis if you haven't played it yet. Greta game and has the best game play of any of the contra games imo. I sure hope they have this available for download at some point.