This was an interesting little game. It was based on the horrible movie with the same name. While the movie had a slow and very boring plot, with just one alien, this game incarnation had enough action to keep me interested longer then the movie. The game designers added a big number of aliens, several hundred at least, which doesn’t have connection with the movie, but it gives a lot of fun to game. Really if Ripply just run around avoiding the one alien and never getting kill anything, this would have been a complete waste of designers.
But luck was in the side of game designers, not screen writers. It has made an enjoyable little distraction, even though I never finished this game, no big deal I haven’t even finished half of my two hundred and fifty games.
For the time it was produced, this game was pretty good. It may not hold a candle to anything made in the last five years, but it doesn’t fall short of the graphics for anything made around the same time. They were 2D but almost everything was then, other then first person shooters. Though they were 2D it was fine. In fact, I think this game would be really hard if it were done in 3D. It wasn’t a “walk
in the park” in 2D. As I remember, you really have only two or three weapons. I know, for sure, you have a pulse rifle and, attached to it, a grenade launcher, which you would have to switch between, depending on ammo and the situation. There was a lot of jumping between platforms, finding the convicts, who were glued to the walls by the aliens, fixing power conduits and just trying to find your objectives.
The sounds in this game reminded me very much all three movies. You always knew, when alien was really close, because they made that sound, they do in the movies. As for sound effects, they were what you would expect from a game in the early nineties. They did their job rather fine: the gun made sound like a gun, grenades made a real boom sound, the aliens made their classic squeals (if that word even comes close to describing it), a few other little effects that spice up the world (like opening doors and so on). Alien 3 was not a bad game for it’s time, so if you like sort of action, play this game, it may not be the greatest thing but it’s still fun.
