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...
