Contra games. Now, he has become the commander of "Blood Falcon" terrorist organization and has merged himself with an alien cell. Triumvirate - Three "hundreds-of-years-old" men who have prolonged their lives using cybernetic implants, which also combined their minds together. They are the high government of Earth in 2647 and they were the ones who framed Bill for the accident that killed four fifths of Earth's population and for the murder of Lance. Their names are Gaius, Nero, and Commodus. Relic of Moirai - A mysterious force that the alien attackers were trying to recover. Development After commissioning Appaloosa Interactive for the development of Contra: Legacy of War and C: The Contra Adventure, Konami assigned their internal Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo team to work on the next installment in the franchise. Nobuya Nakazato, (the director of Alien Wars and Hard Corps) was in charge of the game's direction, design and scenario. A few years prior to the announcement of Shattered Soldier, Konami had plans for a Nintendo 64 installment in the series titled Contra Spirits 64 that would've been handled by Konami Computer Entertainment Osaka, but those plans were aborted. Soundtrack The soundtrack was composed by Akira Yamaoka and Sota Fujimori. In 2002, Konami Music Entertainment released a printed album for it, catalog number KOLA-016. It is known that some tracks are missing or incomplete. Reception Contra: Shattered Soldier received "generally favorable reviews" according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. In Japan, Famitsu gave it a score of 30 out of 40. References External links Official website 2002 video games PlayStation 2 games PlayStation Network games Post-apocalyptic video games Contra (series) Video games about terrorism Video games scored by Akira Yamaoka Video games developed in Japan Video games featuring female protagonists Video games with 2.5D graphics Video games with alternate endings Cooperative video games Video games set in the 27th century