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Alien
3
Year: 1992
Format: Megadrive/Genesis
The Alien challenges you (left) Ripley takes to the air vents (centre)
The results of missing the deadline! (right)
Comments:
You play as Ripley. You must find and free all the captives hidden around the levels while avoiding the nasty Alien and before the time runs out and aliens burst out. Nice graphics, lots of fire power, good music. Fun at first but long repetitive levels with no passwords or save positions ultimately mar this one i.e. you stop playing on level five and you have to start from level one again. Also not that close to the movie's plot. I remember the point of Alien 3 being that there was only one Alien and no guns...
Other versions of Alien 3:
Format: Super Nintendo
From: Acclaim
Year: 1993
Comments: Pretty much the same as the Sega one but with better graphics.
Format: Amiga
From: Acclaim
Year: 1992
Comments: Identical to the Megadrive/Genesis version but with no music.
Format: Sega Master System
From: Acclaim
Year: 1992
Comments: The same as the Megadrive/Genesis version just with less graphical and audio detail.
Format: NES
From: Acclaim
Year: 1992
Comments: Same as the other Acclaim versions with slight alterations so that it will fit the NES. Not as much fun as the other games.
Format: Nintendo Gameboy
From: LJN
Year: 1992
Comments: A top down action adventure game close to the film's plot. Quite good.
Format: Commodore 64
From: Acclaim
Year: 1992
Comments: Same as the Acclaim versions.
Format: Arcade
Title: Alien 3: The Gun
From: Sega
Year: 1993
Comments: Using cabinet mounted guns you and another player blast away the Aliens in an attempt to save the prison planet. You are also given a limited number of grenades to use when the going gets tough. The gameplay is very close to Sega's other lightgun games from the period such as Gunblade and Jurassic Park. Not very close to the movie's plot (there were no guns at all in the movie and only the one Alien) the graphics are good if a little out dated and the non-stop blasting gets a bit tiresome as the game runs on.
