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[IbizaPocholo]

Join us as we guide you through the history of all Alien games, stretching back over 40 years from early Alien video games like Alien (Atari 2600) all the way to Alien Isolation!

Alien (1979), written by Dan O'Bannon and directed by Sir Ridley Scott, is a sci-fi masterpiece which should need little introduction. A part sci-fi, part slasher smash hit of absolutely soaring standards, Alien is broadly regarded as one of the most important and influential science fiction and horror movies ever made – and deservedly so. It’s also a member of an elite list of fabulous film series that really should’ve stopped at just the one sequel. What you may not know, however, is that Alien was already an established multimedia franchise well before its first theatrical sequel arrived in 1986. Here's the history of every Alien video game.

 

[West Texas CEO]

 

[CoreyFlawless]

That’s why. If there any game I’m interested in. I look and read different reviewers and user reviews.

 

[drganon]

 

[ZehDon]

Today's controversial opinion: Alien Trilogy is an absolutely terrific game and I'd pay an un-Godly amount of money for a remaster from Night Dive.

 

[RagnarokIV]

My grandmother understands more about games than IGN - and she’s been dead for 15 fucken years.

 

[Goliath77]

They have a nerve even talking about Alien games after the butcher job they did on the Alien Isolation review.

That game was fantastic and they must have cost the devs sales. 5.9 score and mediocre rating still makes me annoyed to this day

 

[The_Observer]

I wanted to post that the most terrible thing by far about this franchise is the Alien Isolation review score by that IGN “journalist” but the OP is already satisfying in this sense. Noice

 

[T-0800]

My grandmother understands more about games than IGN - and she’s been dead for 15 fucken years.

So has IGN.

 

[Ben87fr]

Haha fuck ign

 

[SHA]

No, I like them, I fancy their art design, their philosophy, who doesn't like aliens?

 

[peek]

Naaah some of yall delusional. Alien Isolation WAS trash. Trash when it released, slighter better trash today if you compare it to modern titles. Still trash xD

 

[Doczu]

Today's controversial opinion: Alien Trilogy is an absolutely terrific game and I'd pay an un-Godly amount of money for a remaster from Night Dive.

My brother in Christ, you and me.
Best Doom clone, amazing on the PS1

 

[IbizaPocholo]

ALIENS: ERADICATION TC mod for Doom II

A GZDoom MOD using Kontra Kommando's Aliens: Trilolgy/Ultimate Doom mod as it's base. Play as four unique classes against the power of the Xenomorphs, all while battling with Weyland/Yutani Company forces, opportunistic mercenaries, and malfunctioning...

www.moddb.com

 

[The_Observer]

ALIENS: ERADICATION TC mod for Doom II

A GZDoom MOD using Kontra Kommando's Aliens: Trilolgy/Ultimate Doom mod as it's base. Play as four unique classes against the power of the Xenomorphs, all while battling with Weyland/Yutani Company forces, opportunistic mercenaries, and malfunctioning...

www.moddb.com

Looks better than Gearbox’s Colonial Marines

 

[skit_data]

ALIENS: ERADICATION TC mod for Doom II

A GZDoom MOD using Kontra Kommando's Aliens: Trilolgy/Ultimate Doom mod as it's base. Play as four unique classes against the power of the Xenomorphs, all while battling with Weyland/Yutani Company forces, opportunistic mercenaries, and malfunctioning...

www.moddb.com

What is this? A fan remake of Alien Trilogy? Never seen it before

 

[Vick]

I wanted to post that the most terrible thing by far about this franchise is the Alien Isolation review score by that IGN “journalist” but the OP is already satisfying in this sense. Noice

Same. Won't even give them the view.

Naaah some of yall delusional. Alien Isolation WAS trash. Trash when it released, slighter better trash today if you compare it to modern titles. Still trash xD

 

[RetroGamingUK]

Alien Resurrectionon PS1 is well worth checking out.

It was overlooked due to coming out late in the console’s lifespan and being notoriously difficult. Thankfully the Infinite Health cheat makes it quite enjoyable.

First console game to implement the modern console FPS control scheme by default too

 

[YeulEmeralda]

Turning Alien into a shooter never made sense to me.

That's why Isolation was so good: it was a horror game.

 

[mitch1971]

Were IGN the guys who in their review criticised the control scheme for one of the Alien games, which pretty much became the standard for FPS shooters?

 

[RetroGamingUK]

Were IGN the guys who in their review criticised the control scheme for one of the Alien games, which pretty much became the standard for FPS shooters?

Was GameSpot, by the time TimeSplitters (PS2) and Halo (original Xbone) arrived everyone had accepted them

 

[nial]

Using the Xbox 360 cover of Alien: Isolation is slightly bothering me. Just, why?

 

[bundylove]

Today's controversial opinion: Alien Trilogy is an absolutely terrific game and I'd pay an un-Godly amount of money for a remaster from Night Dive.

Funny you say this as this was thought a few months ago.

What a fantastic game.

This and alien isolation are amongs my top 20 games.

 

[bundylove]

Was GameSpot, by the time TimeSplitters (PS2) and Halo (original Xbone) arrived everyone had accepted them

Lets be frank. This game was so hard i had to use god mode to even make it past the first section.

The controls just added to the difficulty and mind you back then this was a real a struggle. It took me some time to get use to this mechanic.

 

[peek]

Same. Won't even give them the view.

Yeaaah, yeaah
The game was absolute trash and no one can convince me otherwise. Its a hallway walking simulator with an alien they just put in your face without any thought, forcing you to use the half baked "stealth" mechanics... all the while you get to play wariorware at each door between zones.

4/10

 

[Werewolf Jones]

I'll need to replay Alien: Isolation but I'm still confident it's not good. It has the vibe but the way it's designed is EXTREMELY against replay value like other survival horror games.

 

[bundylove]

Yeaaah, yeaah
The game was absolute trash and no one can convince me otherwise. Its a hallway walking simulator with an alien they just put in your face without any thought, forcing you to use the half baked "stealth" mechanics... all the while you get to play wariorware at each door between zones.

4/10

Boy you are wrong. And lame

 

[R6Rider]

Excited for Rogue Incursion in a few months.

 

[peek]

Boy you are wrong. And lame

I am sorry you are emotionally attached to said game. I apologize. I mean no disrespect.

 

[bundylove]

I am sorry you are emotionally attached to said game. I apologize. I mean no disrespect.

Ok

 

[rodrigolfp]

ALIENS: ERADICATION TC mod for Doom II

A GZDoom MOD using Kontra Kommando's Aliens: Trilolgy/Ultimate Doom mod as it's base. Play as four unique classes against the power of the Xenomorphs, all while battling with Weyland/Yutani Company forces, opportunistic mercenaries, and malfunctioning...

www.moddb.com

Nice, but too much walking simulation.

 

[GymWolf]

Is their review of isolation one of those terrible things by any chance?

 

[Josemayuste]

Is that the new hybrid Xenomorph?

 

[Senua]

 

[RCX]

Isolation was good.

10 hours too long, but still good.

 

[nkarafo]

That would be an interesting video to watch if it wasn't by IGN.

Imagine watching or reading anything by IGN.

 

[Paasei]

IGN gave Alien Isolation a 5.9 and gave Concord a 7. Remember this next time you watch or read a review from them

Spoiler: Spoiler

to be fair, IGN was never a good source for reviews. There’s completely random reviewers every day of the week.

 

[nkarafo]

First console game to implement the modern console FPS control scheme by default too

Well, Turok 1 had the same scheme basically by default. Except for a D-pad instead of a second analog. But it was the same design otherwise.

 

[IDKFA]

Today's controversial opinion: Alien Trilogy is an absolutely terrific game and I'd pay an un-Godly amount of money for a remaster from Night Dive.

That's not controversial at all.

I'd also kill for a Alien Trilogy remaster.

Probably my 2nd favourite Alien game, just behind Capcom's Alien Vs Predator (which also needs to be ported to consoles and PC)

 

[SportsFan581]

Was GameSpot, by the time TimeSplitters (PS2) and Halo (original Xbone) arrived everyone had accepted them

I wonder what this reviewer thinks of 99% of games today.

 

[IbizaPocholo]

1 Month 17 days after the destruction of Hadley's Hope, a rescue team of Colonial Marines are deployed to investigate the planet LV-426. As the Marines continue on their mission, they soon discover a xenomorph infestation has survived. As the situation escalates, the Colonial Marines find themselves in a war between the xenomorphs and Weyland Yutani secret bio-soldiers.