Born for Wii: Contra

just asking, not trying to be a jerk, but what would the difference be between the game you want and Gears of War (or The Conduit for that matter)? Dudes shooting aliens with over the shoulder or first person view? I actually have never played Gears of War so maybe I'm wrong.

Then whats the difference between Army of Two and Contra???

The thing between the conduit and Gears of War is that on GoW there is a Cover System, which I find quite awesome, while in The Conduit is just face to face combat and a cover system on Contra is like a ring made to match perfectly the size of a finger (like we say here in Mexico "Como anillo al dedo"), which, on a First Person Shooter can be achieved, while in a third person shooter (over the should camera) fits perfectly (as projected by Gears of War)

a few correction to my previous post

"First Person Shooter can be achieved" change it to "First Person Shooter can't be achieved" and "(over the should camera) " has to be "(over the shoulder camera)"

We need an edit button for those whose english is not their primary language!!!

I suppose the real question is...
If Contra had the same system as Gears of War (of which I have played), would you wish it to feel EXACTLY like GoW? Or tweaked for a "Contra-feel"?

Because if it's EXACTLY like GoW, then it's not much more different (other than enemies and storyline... but the only genre that can really get away with that is JRPGs).

The over-the-shoulder + cover system is great and awesome... but I wouldn't count on it being PERFECT for Contra.
Afterall, a lot of GoW cover system's appeal is from the cog uniforms... those huge metal bulking things smashing up against chewed-down cement while gunfire is coming from all directions makes your mouth taste like metal and gunk - the sort of "RAAAHHHH!!!"-kind that makes 14 year olds think they're the king of the world.

However, something like that for Contra would be great - but being exactly like GoW would make it kind of "meh"... it's like if you had a cat that killed rats the same way that lions killed water buffalos, the majesty and grace would be gone - and it'd just look amusingly kinda' cool.

Make it faster, a tad bit lighter, and change the total atmosphere into something that can almost make you feel like you really are playing Contra (aka: Stick to the original feel as much as you can... adding too much can make it gimmicky) - and you've got yourself a deal.

Afterall, we can't ask all games to follow the same system as other games. Otherwise, we'd just be changing the skins, voice-overs, and texts in every game and releasing it the next month.