Today I'm taking a look at Aliens 3 for Master System.
In Alien 3, you play as Ripley who like in the movie stranded on a prison planet full of aliens, but unlike the movie, you have weapons to fight off the alien hoard. Every level gives you the mission of saving all the prisoners in the stage and then making your way to the end of the level.
You see that clock at the bottom, well you have a time limit, take too long and more xenomorphs will show and that's instant death.
Now you have got quite a few armourments including the pulse rifle, a flamethrower and grenades. but remember: short, controlled bursts.
You can also find health power ups and of course ammo and you'll be looking for this stuff all the time as the aliens are vicious bastards. Especially since the camera is a cheap motherfucker, you can walking along with no enemies in sight when suddenly an alien leaps into the screen from nowhere and hits you like a fucking freight train. And just like the alien movies you end up crawling around in tight pipes meaning, these fuckers can leap from nowhere and you can't even react to avoid it.
And the jumping controls my god, you get buttfucked by trying to leap a gap and miss the ledge to either fall to your death or land on another ledge to get butt fucked by a fucking alien. Hey Game, I wanna introduce you to a personal friend of mine. This is an M41A pulse rifle.
Ten millimeter with over and under thirty millimeter pump action grenade launcher. Anyway the music in this game is okay for a Master System game and the sound effects are very generic and the graphics for a Master System game are good enough. But it's not a bad game, it's just average.
What the hell was that?
They're coming out of the walls! They're coming out of the goddamn walls! Come ! Come on! Come and get it, baby! Come on! I don't got all day! Come on! Come on! Come on you bastard! Come on, you too! Oh, you want some of this? Fuck You!
Aliens Vs Predator has 3 campaigns, one where you play as a marine, in Call of Aliens Duty, seriously not kidding, one of the few differences is that your health has 3 units and when 1 unit drains you need a health pack but if it doesn't fully drain it will regenerate. You also get a radar that keeps track of enemies, though that's new, it isn't in games like GOLDENEYE!
Now I bet you're thinking, the Aliens and Predators play better well, you'd be wrong. The predators are based around stealth, you do have some armourments but they aren't always usable due to reasons and you mostly have to go in for the kill bare handed, which would be great if your cloaking device actually made you invisible, seriously, it so doesn't work, the soldiers always seem to spot you immediately. You're meant to stick to treetops and roofs to take out your enemies, as well as leaping like a teenage superman, but comes off making you feel weak, when you're THE FUCKING PREDATOR!
Playing as the alien however means playing with speed and stealth as well as crawling on walls and ceilings, and taking out enemies in cool gruesome ways, but can be really disorienting.
So to put it shortly, the marine story is meant to be haunting but fails miserably, the predator story is a gruesome stealth game which sucks and the alien campaign is super short and despite it's disorientation could have been the best part of the game if it wasn't so goddamn short. Oh and I forgot we have the tagged on multiplayer, with all sorts of modes, like Aliens impregnating marines or predators hunting marines, and we have a survival mode where you team up with some buddies to survive wave after wave of Xenos, which is okay, it's just overall this game is nothing special, it could of been done a hell of a lot better. I- You know I expected more from you - I thought you'd be smarter than this.
And don't think I forgot about you Colonial Marines. That's it, man, game over man! Game Over! You remember what I said about Aliens Vs Predator's marine campaign, well apart from the fact you have to select the radar out which makes it tricker to shoot, the game plays the same. The only key differences are that you find audio logs and dog tags for achievements, and legendary weapons used by those guys in the movies. You also get to customise weapons by leveling up and gaining points, but if you find legendary weapons, this makes these upgrades one hundred percent POINTLESS!
The game is not even close to being scary with the exception of the one level where you have no weapons and oh yeah the A.I. is so stupid it gets caught on fucking walls.
Are you seeing this shit, and do you know what's worse, this isn't what Sega promised us, this is.
DO YOU SEE THE FUCKING DIFFERENCE! What the fuck, Sega knew their game was shit, so let's lie about what it looks like, this game plays just like the marine campaign in Aliens Vs. Predator except that didn't have as dumb A.I, oh and guess what you don't just kill aliens, oh no for about half the fucking game you fight other humans, because gee that's what I'm playing a FUCKING ALIENS GAME FOR!
Oh and once again we have a tagged on multiplayer where it's marines versus aliens and the aliens control WORSE than those in AVP.
And co-op mode survival returns and it's about the same as AVP. But overall this game sucks as a Aliens game and what's more, FUCKING SUCKS AS A FIRST PERSON FUCKING SHOOTER! This games needs to die! I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure! I'm The Joel MH signing off!
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