Video Games

Has there been another Alien game in this genre? Haven't they all previously been in the action/shoot-em-up style of James Cameron's Aliens as opposed to the original horror style of the first film?

Alien Trilogy on the Playstation
Aliens vs Predator on the PC
Aliens vs Predator 2 on the PC
Alien Resurrection on the Playstation
Alien vs Predator Extinction on the PS2

Aren't those all based on shooting shit up a lá Aliens? As opposed to running away and cowering like a little suit a lá Alien?

I've got Alien Trilogy, AvP and AvP2 and they all fit the bill.

Edited to correct auto-correct.

Also on a general note regarding game reviews, I find it pretty important to find a reviewer who wants similar things from a game as you do. It sounds obvious but I see very little evidence of it occurring in the video games industry. One of the reasons why review scores (hello there IGN) tend to be pretty inaccurate.

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Mick!!! :)

I did play Opposing Forces. It must have been 1999 because I played that expansion thing straight afterwards.

Is that what you mean by Black Mesa? Or was that another pack/game?

Black Mesa is a fan project of very high quality:

http://www.blackmesasource.com/

Oh wow, cheers for the link.

Seriously, get yourself the Half Life 2 series, we're still waiting for Episode 3 to come out...

Erm ... no, they really don't. :)

Let me tell you a thing, HL2 is now 10 years old.

I'm intrigued by Alien Isolation, doubt I'll buy it before it becomes cheap though.

Driveclub on Friday (£35 if you have PS+)

Whilst we are talking about HL2 mods, I mentioned Minerva to a friend last night. Well worth a playthrough if you haven't yet

http://store.steampowered.com/app/235780/

Just read some of the back-story; I'm pretty certain some of it is inspired by Marathon. Minerva's dialogue reminds me of Durandal a lot, and then there is this; https://hylobatidae.org/minerva/archive_4.shtml which seems to cement the tru7h

And I'm sad because someone has used my HL CD key to register it on Steam :(

Aren't those all based on shooting shit up a lá Aliens? As opposed to running away and cowering like a little suit a lá Alien?

I've got Alien Trilogy, AvP and AvP2 and they all fit the bill.

Edited to correct auto-correct.

Yeah, they're all shooters with a certain degree of horror and suspense but they all fail in that manner. The best Alien game by far recently is the latest Aliens vs Predators, and it is actually a very good game but not enough people play it online.

Was that the one where you could play as alien, predator or a marine?
It was average at best IMO.

Like he said, the best so far! I only remember playing the marine campaign and it decent. Good suspense building with the motion tracker but the ability to take down the aliens with relative ease ruins that quickly. Never got around to the multiplayer unfortunately. Alien Trilogy was basically just Doom with Aliens as far as I recall. Nothing spectacular really.

finished a firelight room / a dark room
quite addictive once you get going and explore the map

the new elite is supposed to be great
a friend has the beta version and has been playing for a few weeks now can't wait to get it
loved the original version on the spectrum

roll on fugitive status !

finished a firelight room / a dark room
quite addictive once you get going and explore the map

Yeah, I finished it this morning as well. Now on to the Kitten one.

link please

http://bloodrizer.ru/games/kittens/#

hmmm russian website
will they steal my personality and empty my bank accounts ?

Probably. But you get to play a video game in which you're the ruler of a kitten city.

fair do's my personality isn't that great and i have only £2.07

so tally ho to the catnip city

You alien computer game haters clearly don't remember alien breed. Which was awesome (in the early nineties :)

Oooh, I do! And quick google reveals I can buy it for my phone for 99p. Brilliant.