However, the ending received now depends on the player's performance rather than the path taken. Like the Sega Genesis game, Shattered Soldier has multiple endings. The game is known for being very difficult, arguably more than Contra: Hard Corps. The game achieves its goal in mimicking the gameplay that made the previous 8-bit and 16-bit titles so popular by essentially duplicating the same style boss fights and stages. With this information, Bill and Lucia have to confront the Triumvirate and uncover the secrets of the alien relic. After defeating Lance, it is revealed that the aliens from the past games attacked because the Triumvirate secretly stole a mysterious, powerful ' relic' from them. Geo Mandrake's research, is sent to accompany and assist Bill's endeavors.īill eventually finds out that Lance is still alive and is in fact the commander of Blood Falcon himself. Lucia, an advanced cyborg super soldier built by the government from Dr. The ruling government, referred to as the ' Triumvirate', decides to release Rizer prior to completing his sentence, in view of his previous successes in defending Earth, in hope of neutralizing Blood Falcon.

However, five years later (in the year 2647), Earth faces another threat as the terrorist organization ' Blood Falcon', led by a mysterious superhuman commander, spreads panic over the world.

He was given a sentence of 10,000 years in cryogenic prison. Bill Rizer, the hero of the Alien Wars, was held responsible for the incident, as well as for supposedly murdering his partner Lance Bean who reportedly tried to stop him. 80% of the planet's population was completely devastated by a malfunctioning hyper-magnetic weapons grid during development. In 2642 A.D., Earth remains scarred from previous alien conflicts as environmental problems grow beyond humanity's control.

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