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Alien Legacy is an RTS game that puts the player in the role of the commander of a colony ship as it arrives at a distant star and begins the process of building a series of functional settlements. As the play continues, it is learned that the previous colonists who had arrived before you were all mysteriously killed, and if you are not careful, the same could happen again. A game that, for the most part, was recommended to those who liked the Star Control games and one that I thought I would like much more than I did. I really, really wanted to love this game so much, but I just couldn't get past the infestation of bugs that littered this game. It was admitted by a Sierra On-Line developer for Alien Legacy during an interview in 1995 that the game was essentially unfinished at the time of release and was near unplayable. Yet an executive in the company wanted the game shipped no matter what. As such, when it was released, it was in such a terrible state that it made playing damned...

Alien Carnage, originally released as Halloween Harry, is a side-scrolling shooter/platformer that puts the player in the role of a soldier tasked with saving the world from aliens that want to turn all of Earth's population into zombies. This game features 256-color VGA graphics and background music in the MOD format. The plot is broken into four separate episodes, with the first being released to the public as a shareware version and the remaining episodes being available to buy. In 2007, John Passfield and 3D Realms released the game fully as freeware, and in 2014, the game was re-released with modern Windows support. In 1996, a sequel called Zombie Wars was released and did fairly well for itself, with a plot that follows three years after this game's story. Gee-Whiz Entertainment (formerly Interactive Binary Illusions) announced plans to make this game and Zombie Wars into an animated series, but nothing ever came of it. I found this game to be a nice, simple thing to play...

This is the third game in the series and one of the better ones in my mind, with better looks, gameplay, and enemy AI. The same top-down, run-and-gun action remains, and the overall premise is nearly exactly the same. The player is stranded on a planet infested with hostile alien lifeforms trying to kill them. The goal is to survive and force the facilities on the planet's surface to explode with enough force to cleanse the planet of the alien presence. This game was originally released for the Amiga, PC, and CD32 systems, with the Amiga version did the best out of the bunch. The CD32 version had full-motion, live-action cinematics and the occasional 3D FMV sequence that played at key points throughout the plot. While the others had lower-quality 3D FMVs only instead.   I liked this one and thought it was a fair step up from the last game. I did find that the AI could still be outsmarted with a trusty wall or level object, but this time they could unstick themselves and eventually...

Alien Trilogy is one of the first ever FPS games to have been developed and released for the home gaming market. Featuring the story from the Alien film trilogy, this game puts the player in the role of Ellen Ripley as she tries to survive and fight back against an infestation of hyper-aggressive aliens, known as Xenomorphs. Complete with voice lines from the film when you kill enemy creatures, this game is also the first title ever to use 3D motion-capturing technology for the Aliens in-game models. The sound effects and noises are also sampled directly from the film soundtracks. It was noted during an interview with the game development team that they did everything that they possibly could to keep this game as faithful as possible to the film's plot and settings. I played this game after reading some of the reviews from the time, and some of them were absolutely scathing too. Yet I'm not so sure that the heat was really warranted. For me, this is one of those games that fell...

Alien Breed II: The Horror Continues is the second game in the popular Alien Breed series and a direct sequel to the original, featuring new levels, improved visuals, and an updated AI. Released in 1993, this game was available for the Amiga and early DOS computers, with support for both the OCS/ECS and AGA operating systems. The whole game engine was mostly rewritten to allow for the game to be smoother between levels and to accommodate the newer AI and scripting that had come with recent technological advancements in gaming. It was this new code that was eventually used for the title Superfrog, another Team 17 game. This game also addressed some of the complaints from critics, with more levels overall and a harder difficulty curve. This was also the only Alien Breed game that allowed the player to choose one of four characters, each with their own strengths and weaknesses. I liked this game much more than its predecessor for a variety of reasons. The first and most obvious thing for ...

** THIS IS ABOUT AN ADULT GAME, PLEASE BE WARNED** A Zombie's Life is an adult RPG with survival and crafting elements developed and published by Nergal, an indie game developer funded by the subscription service Patreon. The game puts you in the role of a young boy as a virus runs rampant across the city that you and your family live in. After accidentally getting infected, you grow in various ways and must find a cure and provide for your family and other female survivors that can be found around the ruined city. As the game progresses, you get to collect a harem of beautiful women and find a way to stop the virus from spreading. Gameplay is mostly standard for the RPGM engine and plays much like an early JRPG game. I really enjoyed this game and thought that it was really good for what it was. I wanted to just love it and sing about the various aspects of my playthrough that I liked, but there is a big problem with A Zombie's Life. It was never finished. Despite the opposite...