Alien Resurrection

Alien Resurrection
by Fox Interactive

Alien Resurrection
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Product Summary

Platform: PlayStation
Publisher: Fox Interactive

Video Game Reviews of Alien Resurrection

Customer Review: much like the movie
Summary: 5 Stars

somehow, just like the movie, Alien the game has managed to remain relevent years after it was relaced. i think this is because they both use the same philosophy when it comes to horror. both the game and the movie are striped down to the basics of what makes a situation scary, no BFGs or ghosts or long complicated plots, just you, alone, in the dark. but just how alone are you?

(when i say Alien the movie, i dont mean Alien Resurection, whoever dirrected that movie should be shot)

In Alien Resurection (the game) you play as Ripply, you must work your way through the environments of Alien Resurection (the movie) and eventualy escape. the envronments arnt to creative, but their filled with the two scaryest things in existace, monsters, and dark. Amo is scarce and enemies are not, you must get the most out of what you have or die.
this game is insanly hard though, dont expect to beat it in a day.

its so cheap anyway, what do you have to lose?



Description of Alien Resurrection

Take two parts weak plot, a hint of bad controls and crummy auto aiming, add a dash of overdone stretches of boredom amidst short stretches of rather fierce action, and you've got Alien: Resurrection's downside. But here's the upside: these are Ridley Scott's aliens, and they're coming for you relentlessly. The game gives you the heebie-jeebies when you're playing it all alone with the lights turned low. The tension often can become palpable as you reload your weapon, administer a health pack, and pray that the beasts don't hit you from a direction that you hadn't anticipated.

The premise of the game is pretty standard Alien fare: you, as Ripley, are locked in a life-or-death outer-space struggle to keep the devious Dr. Wren from bringing alien samples to earth. What more is there to know?

The atmosphere that's created by Alien: Resurrection's various environments, animations, and sounds is the primary reason to purchase this game. Because it relies heavily on suspense (the sense that these adversaries can be nowhere and everywhere at the same time has never been more real in a game), Alien: Resurrection sometimes can go even beyond what you'd consider merely scary to an entirely new terrorizing experience. The game engine supports all of this with atmospherics like lighting effects, fogging, dripping water (and blood?), and other particle effects, without causing you to endure much--if any--slowdown.

But suspense can go only so far. As in the movies, if the actual confrontations with the aliens don't live up to expectations, the whole game suffers. Even as they start off with a bang, the alien encounters follow a script. After making a dramatic entrance, they mostly just give you the bum's rush without any thought for using available cover, or even jogging from side to side as they advance. With their plodding movements, it's no surprise, when you actually get into the alien firefight that you've been expecting and craving, that the tension completely disappears. --Todd Mowatt

Pros:

  • Genuinely suspenseful
  • Great graphics and atmospherics
Cons:
  • Weak plot, with boring stretches
  • Predictable alien encounters

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