Alien Trilogy

Four years after the release of the third installment of the alien saga, Acclaim Entertainment, Inc. decided to produce a first-person shooter that would summarize the adventures of the brave Ellen Ripley. The Alien Trilogy PC and PS1 software was developed by Probe Entertainment studio. At the beginning of 1996 the game was ready and on the last day of February it finally reached the market.

The game was divided into three scripts, corresponding to specific episodes of the film trilogy. First we will visit the complex on the planet LV-426 (Aliens), then we will move to the prison on Fiorina 161 (Alien 3), and finally fight the final battle with the Xenomorphs on the spacecraft Nostromo (Alien). All missions have been divided into several smaller sections, where we have a specific task to perform. In addition to the extermination of all monsters typical of shooting, sometimes it is necessary to find an object or turn on the machinery that supplies power to the next section. At the end of each episode, Ripley must fight a duel with the alien queen. As you can easily guess, in total three such battles await us.

Among the handy arsenal of means of extermination we will find a gun, rifle, rifle, flame thrower and bombs. Ripley can also use other useful items, such as seismic charges, which exterminate enemies with a single stroke. If we are talking about opponents, let's list the beasts that will come to us in the next stages. Aliens occur in the form of eggs, facehuggers, undeveloped specimens (just after getting out of the chest) and ordinary Xenomorphs. In Alien Trilogy we will also see posterity monsters similar to dogs - a reference to the third part of the film trilogy.

Special attention in Alien Trilogy is paid to the display (HUD), which in addition to standard information about the vitality of our heroine and ammunition, also presents the location of opponents. A motion scanner known from the film has been used here - if the aliens are heading in our direction, we will hear an intense buzz and we will see a dot approaching on the screen.

From the technical point of view, Alien Trilogy does not impress. The levels are architecturally very simple, and all opponents are represented by two-dimensional sprites. What draws attention is the sound. In addition to the suspenseful music, we also hear various comments by Ellen Ripley.

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Last updated on 20 April 2017