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Coded Arms: Contagion

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Coded Arms: Contagion
56
7.0 User Score:

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Game Info

Publisher: Konami

Developer: Konami

Genre(s): First-Person Shooter

Players: 8

ESRB Rating: T (Teen)

Release Date: September 18, 2007

Summary

Coded Arms: Contagion thrusts players into a new cybernetic crisis where they must use their hacking abilities and an arsenal of high-powered weaponry to survive. As a lone security agent players will return to A.I.D.A., a virtual reality military training program, to prevent cyber-terrorists from taking control of the program and gaining access to classified military information. The hackers believe that AIDA shouldn't be restricted for only government use. The agent must use his abilities and combat skills to disinfect AIDA from the hacker-introduced virus so he can escape the system. Across a variety of enclosed and open-air levels, players will take on original enemies with an all-new selection of firearms and explosives that lets them counter the terrorist menace with more firepower than ever before. Up to eight players can go head-to-head in the game's new online multiplayer modes. [Konami]

What The Critics Said

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79

Worth Playing

It seems that the developers at Creat have gotten the balance just right with Contagion and served up a slice of fun pie. It may be a small slice, but it's a tasty one nonetheless.

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70

Playstation Official Magazine UK

This looks sharp and, most importantly, feels good as you pull the trigger. [May 2008, p.115]

70

Play Magazine

If you can appreciate old-school first person shooters, where enemies weren't expected to have the best survival instincts, then the single player mode is still worth the time it takes to play through it. [May 2007, p.66]

68

Game Informer

This is nothing more than a cobbled together batch of decade-old FPS conventions and cliches. There's just not much heart and soul in this game, and the stiff mechanics don't work well enough to make you overlook its weakness. [May 2007, p.96]

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60

GamePro

The game works and I got a minor amount of satisfaction completing higher level missions in the story mode. However, The clunky menus, gun fire that sounds like a woodpecker trapped in a metal trash can, and freeze-framing of the character in the middle enemy assaults are just more examples in which there just wasn't enough effort put into Contagion.

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60

GameSpot

Coded Arms: Contagion is a by-the-numbers first-person shooter that does nothing poorly, but nothing particularly well, either.

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60

GameZone

Sadly, the uninspiring action, lack of story and scantily designed levels will leave you wishing there was more to this game that isn’t horrible but not great either.

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60

GameDaily

Get ready to live the glamorous life of a military security agent, with great benefits, adventure, l33t hacking and rote levels and enemies that leave you stumbling around with a profound sense of deja vu.

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60

Official Playstation 2 Magazine UK

Simple, repetitive gaming, that offers immediate fun, but little real substance. [June 2008, p.91]

58

Cheat Code Central

Coded Arms: Contagion just doesn't do enough from its predecessors to really stand out. From the awkward control scheme to the lack of diversity among stages and adversaries, there isn't really anything extraordinary to take out of the experience.

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58

IGN

Just wholly uninspired. You'll never feel connected to the major (Does he die when he dies in A.I.D.A.?), the enemies (Are these real people or AI like Agent Smith?) or the game (Why am I playing this?).

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53

Electronic Gaming Monthly

And I'm somewhere in the middle, because even though Contagion does have an interesting techno facade and a completely tolerable control scheme, it still feels like every shooter I've ever played. [June 2007, p.95]

53

Da Gameboyz

The dull gameplay and generic storyline is not enough to save this falling franchise.

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52

PSM3 Magazine UK

The random levels are gone, but the blandness remains. [June 2008, p.84]

50

Pocket Gamer UK

Do your part to stop the spread of Coded Arms Contagion and its uninspired strain of first-person action. Crippled controls and multiplayer malaise prove far too potent against its beautiful looks.

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50

Games Radar (in-house)

Unfortunately, in a genre where players expect the newest games to completely blow them away (pun intended), Coded Arms: Contagion's run-of-the-mill FPS action just doesn't impress.

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45

PTGamers

Contagion is further proof that Coded Arms is a shallow series.

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40

GameSpy

Coded Arms: Contagion might stave off boredom for a while with its relatively attractive engine, recycled hacking mechanics and obsessive upgrading, but its virtually pointless encounters and drab, forgettable air conspire to make it little more than fodder for buyer's remorse.

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40

PSM Magazine

At this rate, Konami should just delete the series and hope that whatever's wrong with Contagion isn't actually contagious. [June 2007, p.82]

40

Eurogamer

There is nothing to set this apart from every other mediocre first-person shooter you've ever played, and nothing to make it worth recommending.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this game is 7.0 (out of 10) based on 24 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Gio D. gave it a6:
The 1st Coded Arms was merely meh. For Contagion, new developer Creat Stuido definately improved on it, but its still not as good as they hoped it would be. I know that FPS's are very difficult to pull off on the psp because of the limited control scheme but in that aspect, i think Creat Studio did an admirabal job. Out of the FPS's that i've played on psp Contagion has a decent control set-up. The game also runs on a pretty good engine, the graphics while not great, are cool. I would say the main problem with the game would be gameplay. Mind you, its DEFINATELY not great, but it ISNT horrible either, it's just servicable. If ur a FPS fan and are looking for a great FPS for the psp then Contagion is not it. But if ur looking for AT LEAST a decent/passable FPS then u can do worse than Contagion.

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