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Game Information
- Platform: PlayStation
- ELSPA Minimum Age: 15
- Media: Video Game
Product Features
- Four playable characters, with different skills, abilities and weapons.
- Challenging puzzle elements.
- Environmantal audio presented in Dolby Surround.
- Ten colossal levels
- All of the legendary weapons from the Alien world
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Product Description
Amazon.co.uk Review
Take two parts weak plot, a hint of bad controls and crummy auto aiming, add a dash of overdone stretches of boredom amid short stretches of rather fierce action, and you've got Alien: Resurrection's downside. But here is the upside: these are Ridley Scott's Aliens-they are coming for you relentlessly. The game gives you the heebie-jeebies when you're playing it all alone with the lights turned down low. The tension can often become palpable as you reload your weapon, administer a health pack and pray that the beasts don't hit you from a direction 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.
The atmosphere created by Alien: Resurrection's various environments, animation 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 can sometimes go even beyond what you would consider merely scary to an entirely new terrorising experience. The game engine supports all this with atmospherics like lighting effects, fogging, water (and blood?) dripping and other particle effects.
But suspense can only go so far. As in the movies, if the actual confrontations with the aliens don't live up to expectations, the whole game can suffer. --Todd Mowatt
Manufacturer's Description
Cutting-edge technology: A fully 360-degree first-person 3-D polygonal engine with real-time lighting, stunning visual effects and a destructible environment unlike anything seen before delivers next-generation graphics technology on the PlayStation!
Varied character play: Alien Resurrection provides four playable characters, with different skills, abilities and weapons. Take on the role of Ripley, Call, DiStephano and Christie.
Challenging puzzle elements: Fast-paced action and adventure is meshed with various problem-solving, or strategy elements to provide more intelligent challenge than most action/adventures. Puzzle elements are object oriented, search and destroy and search and rescue.
Terrorizing environmental audio: The game's digital sound effects and ambient background audio created by the movie's Oscar-nominated sound design team, and presented in Dolby Surround for a totally immersive aural experience.
Depth of play: Ten colossal levels stream seamlessly from the CD in the background as you play to provide an immense explorable environment featuring multiple stories, walkways, galleries, rooms, underwater areas and more.
Deadly weapons: All of the legendary weapons from the Alien world including: Pulse Rifle, Shotgun, Flamethrower, Pistol, Electric Gun (Burner), Grenade Launcher, Laser Gun and Rocket Launcher, and Christie's surgically attached dual wrist Pistols.
Alien Artificial Intelligence: Alien Warriors move fluidly between floors, walls, ceilings and vents, communicating telepathically in order to stalk, swarm and decimate their prey using multiple attacks.
Alien Life Cycle: Alien Queens lay eggs. Eggs hatch Face-Huggers, face-hugged humans chest burst, and Chest-Bursters grow into Alien Warriors, who collect human hosts--the horrific life cycle continues...
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Serious terror fans only need apply.,
By A Customer
This review is from: Alien Resurrection (Video Game)
There is no scarier game on the PSone. Period. The most frightening parts of Resident Evil are pedestrian in comparison to an empty room in Alien Res. It's such a tense experience that you'll probably have to take breaks just to pluck up the nerve to go around the next corner. And don't forget to reload... The film was laughable, but fortunately the game doesn't bother with anything from the film, save a few character names and locations. The graphics and sound are amazing; some of the best crafted you will ever see or hear on the PSone. Here's the down side: it's Hard. Very, very Hard. There is no 'easy' setting (actually, there is, but it isn't). You need a mouse (PSX mice are cheap). You need patience, and a good memory for where the alien that killed you last time came from. The characters aren't allowed to run, which is irritating but adds to the suspense; dodging or running away is never an option. One final warning: if you don't save every last bullet on the Ripley levels, you will probably find yourself without ammunition on level 7, and faced with the choice of replaying from the beginning or cheating. Alien Res should have been more accessible, no doubt about it. But it's still fantastic. Buy it and play it with the lights down and the sound up. Or stick with your cosy, safe 'Aliens' DVD...
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A CHALLENGE, DONT BUY IF YOUR RUBBISH AT GAMES,
By chris.spelman@talk21.com (Maidstone, Kent) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Alien Resurrection (Video Game)
Alien Resurrection is the SCARIEST and HARDEST game I have played. If your RUBBISH dont buy, if like me you got bored of spending £30 on a game just 2 complete it quickly (ie: Medal Of Honour, World is Not Enough) then this is a game you want to buy. Possibly the most atmospheric game I have played, Alien Res brings the suspense of the films to a game like no previous effort. The problem which takes away the fifth star is the simple fact that it is so draining to play. You often just want to relax with a game but with Alien its hard to bring the game to the machine. This is because the game is so intense. I wish there was more game options which would offer different experiences. But if you buy an alien game then you obviously want to be scared and this game does that mercilessly. Stay with the game and you will find a real under-rated gem.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
In space, no-one can hear you scream.....,
By A Customer
This review is from: Alien Resurrection (Video Game)
The Playstation has serious lack of first-person shooters, and when a new one comes along I always check it out to see if it's worthy of my collection. When I first played Alien Resurrection, I didn't like it. It's a very tough game and is the sort you need to sit down and concentrate on, not the sort for quick blast. But as you get into it, you will see a clever and manipulative first-person shooter, which is perhaps the scariest game on Playstation. One of the first things you will notice is the sheer atmosphere oozing from the TV. Although this game is based on the mediocre fourth film, in terms of style and content it resides somewhere between the first and second films. It is not your typical shoot-em up, as there are many puzzles to complete and ammo is scarce. The developers have gone all-out to make this game frightening, and that it achieves incredibly well. You will hear a hiss, then a bleep on your motion tracker, you spin around, trying to locate the xenomorph - then the attack comes - it jumps off the wall to your side and runs for you, you fumble and panic, then lay it to rest with a well-aimed shotgun shell. And so it continues - constant fear and tension all the time, waiting for the next attack (and the Face Huggers are even worse!). And this is what makes the game so good - like Silent Hill it scares the pants off you to keep playing, but you want to 'cause it's such a good game. Admittedly, it's not without it's faults though. As aforementioned, this game is very tough - sometimes ridiculously so. Time and time again you will die by something to which you had no warning, and save points are nowhere near frequent enough. Another fault is the controls - I have no problem with them myself (I think they're as compulsive and fluent as they could have been), but I'm aware of others having trouble with them. Both analogue sticks are used for movement, with the shoulder buttons to fire. It takes a while to get used to, but works as well as could be expected for a console shooter. The graphics are moody and atmospheric and do their job perfectly well. This is not a game I'd recommend for people to run out and buy, but instead try it first, in a darkened room with the sound turned up high. Give it a little while to get used to the controls, try to explore every corner of the big, empty USS Auriga, and see what you think. Scared yet....?
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