You’ve got to conserve ammunition, and carefully creep around each corner to avoid even the simplest of enemies.ĭo you dare press the big red door opening button? The jolly, candy-like button? Oh, no, wait, wrong series… The limited draw distance works as a positive factor early on, because it allows the game to create its sense of gloom and doom quite well. In fact, the first level shows what Alien Trilogy can do well it’s a study in tense game design with a smattering of action thrown in after the fact.
You’re alone, not terribly well armed… and then the beeping starts. Alien 3 for either SNES or Megadrive is good (for its time), and I guess the never-converted Capcom arcade machine was OK, but other than that? Alien Trilogy: On the plus sideĪlien Trilogy at least grabs a whole lot of source material for its first person shooter antics, and although it had been a while since I’d dusted off my PSOne copy - probably well before it was the PSOne and was simply the “Playstation” - my initial reactions were mostly positive.Įxcept, perhaps, for my reaction to this logo. Let’s be completely honest here Alien/s has had some woeful spin-offs, be they films, comic books, but especially games. Do the classic Playstation games still hold up? To test that out, I grabbed a game at random from the shelf - and it happened to be Alien Trilogy. Hang on… yep, that’s my dusty brain processing that fact, and screaming in sheer terror at me. 18 years old on November 15th in Australia, if you want to be specific. The Playstation is 18 years old, and therefore comfortably a classic. This week: Is a game based on the Aliens Trilogy a glorious day in the Corps, or is it just GAME OVER, MAN?
Time once again to delve into the vaults for a Friday retro review.
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