Overall 9 Graphics 7 Sound 8 Addictive 5 Story 7 Depth 4 Difficulty 7
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A Good Doom Clone daryl96
Overall: 9
Hey
everyone. Today I will be reviewing Alien Trilogy For the Sega Saturn.
The game is based on the first 3 Alien movies and is a Doom clone, so how dose it
stand out? Is it the same as every other Doom clone? These question
will be answered, but first a quick History lesson.
When Doom was released in 1993 many game tried to copy the style of the game, and many failed, but not Alien Trilogy. It did rather well is pretty good.
Graphics: 7
For a clone of Doom, its very good but you can see Doom in it, 2D sprites in 3D levels. The enemies do look like the aliens in the movies and are creepy looking when the game was first released. The draw distance is poor as you can only see about 6ft so it can be hard to see what is coming and in five levels seeing what's far ahead is important as in 2 levels there bottomless pit and 3 are boss battles. When the bosses come into view, they have spotted you. The Last sector of the game is hard as every thing looks the same and it is the hardest sector with it being so easy to get lost. But it dose look better than the Saturn version of doom and the frame rate is a lot better than Doom's frame rate. For those of you who don't know the Doom frame rate on the Saturn was very poor and when loads of enemies are on screen, it can be unplayable. Alien Trilogy it not the same, the frame rate is really good. Note that Alien Trilogy was released in 1996 and Doom in 1997. When the cut scene and death scene well animated for the Saturn and for 1996.
Sound: 8
The sound track is brilliant and is very different, depending on the level. It can be slow and creepy to fast and intense. Although the first two sectors use almost the same tracks there are in a different order (Apart from the first level in the 2 sectors) The guns sound like the guns from the movie's and with the famous Pulse Rifle still sounding like it did from the movie Aliens it dose make you feel very powerful. But the boss level music is the best very fast and very creepy. A good track for a dark, cloudy room full of eggs and the queen. The Title music used to scare me a lot when I was young as I say it is the scariest soundtrack on the game.
Addictiveness: 5
The game is not very addictive like Doom. Doom you could play it over and over again but not Alien Trilogy. After you finished it like that's it there nothing to make it better. Yes you can make harder in the options menu but that is it, Doom has the fun, hardcore music and how big the game is, Alien Trilogy doesn't have that replay value. I think its due to the game being done within a few sittings.
Story: 7
You play as Ellen Ripley the main charter in the Alien movie's. Wayland Yutani has lost contact with colony on LV426 and you and your team have to investigate and you are the only one to survive so its basically the plot Aliens movie. After you leave LV462 (1st sector) you go to the prison (Sector 2) from Alien 3 which is wired as the Prison was on a different planet in the movie. You go into the Prison, kill the alien queen and come out. Then you go to the Derelict Spaceship from the first movie and blow up the planet. To make it easier it start and end of the aliens the 2nd movie with the 3rd and 1st movie's locations. I know confusing.
Depth: 4
There is no depth some of the levels look the same, the levels basic. Don't get me wrong it still good but depth it not one of its strong points.
Difficulty: 7
Only when the only weapon you have pistol it becomes hard some enemies take over a minute to kill and the humans take ten to eight shots to die. There 2 levels that have bottomless pits and if your not careful you will die, and sometimes you will backed into a corner and killed in a few seconds.
If you find this game cheap I would recommended it but if you have doom I would play that instead. But if you want a good movie based game then this one is okay.
Graphics 7 Sound 8 Addictive 5 Story 7 Depth 4 Difficulty 7
Review Rating: 4/5
Submitted: 04-27-15
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