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[Blood-Pigggy]

You forgot Enforcer, I lawl at you.

[DeathDude]

Heh Karnov what memories that brings me back, such a quirky character, got to give another mention to Grim Fandango, one of the few 3-D adventure games that got the concept right and had an excellent story with superb voice acting.

[MdaG]

Mine, I consider some series as one long game.

• Revelation (Myst IV)
  
• Wing Commander series
  
• Fallout series
  
• The dig
  
• Homeworld series

[Sinke]

Oh yeah, "Enforcer". Did that thing got out at all?

[Blood-Pigggy]

Yeah it did.

[Sinke]

I guess one more to prove the point.

[Juni Ori]

Guess I'll have to add UFO to my list too. Surprisingly I never found TftD disappointment, though it obviously should be. It fixed those few little things I wanted and brought in - not too well done, admitted - new atmoshpere. One thing I especially loved were ships! That fear...

Another I must mention, missing from my list: Alien vs. Predator. Both ones. They both scared the guano out of me and I within few weeks reinstalled AvP2... Still scared of every shadow!

[Potatoe]

Juni Ori, on Sep 29 2006, 09:32 AM, said:

Guess I'll have to add UFO to my list too. Surprisingly I never found TftD disappointment, though it obviously should be. It fixed those few little things I wanted and brought in - not too well done, admitted - new atmoshpere. One thing I especially loved were ships! That fear...

Another I must mention, missing from my list: Alien vs. Predator. Both ones. They both scared the guano out of me and I within few weeks reinstalled AvP2... Still scared of every shadow!

AvP2 rules. Most terryfying was the part where you have to walk through the eggs that are active and the facehuggers are running after you. That really got me worked up.

[Sinke]

I think every game with "Aliens" was at least playable. The worst was probably Alien 3 for 16-bit consoles- because it had huge levels but you could access map only through terminals which were very rare.

AvP the movie was worst garbage. The guy probably played too much games and didn't read at all about directing , not to mention scriptwriting.

[DeathDude]

I don't know about that, Alien 3 was actually a pretty good all around action game, did come out a time when there was a lot of that sort of game, would nominate the nes version preferably of Alien 3 which wasn't that great.

[Sabreman]

Does anyone remember Alien on the Spectrum? Really basic-looking stuff, but a game that is right up there with the most atmospheric and tense things I've ever played. I remember not expecting much of it at all but becoming completely addicted - playing it over and over for hours.

Something else that's creeping it's way up my favourites is Space Rangers 2. All these years I've been looking for a great space combat game, since my childhood obsession with Elite I've needed something to fill the gap. I've been through the X games, Freespace 2, Freelancer, Darkstar One (very disappointing), and yet this wacky top-down, turn-based effort has completely won me over.

[Blood-Pigggy]

There was a really terrible Alien game released awhile ago, it was basicly Pac-Man with a little Ripley instead of the Pac, and a bunch of weird Aliens replacing the ghosts.

[Potatoe]

Sinke, on Sep 29 2006, 03:20 PM, said:

I think every game with "Aliens" was at least playable. The worst was probably Alien 3 for 16-bit consoles- because it had huge levels but you could access map only through terminals which were very rare.

AvP the movie was worst garbage. The guy probably played too much games and didn't read at all about directing , not to mention scriptwriting.

The horror continues: AvP2: Movie, seriously.. That ending was calling for a sequal and they released the script sometime ago, if I remember correctly the predetor ship drops into Texas..

[Sinke]

I remember C64 version of "Aliens" based on a movie ( which deserved a lot more awards then it got, as well as "Green mile" )

"Aliens" game was ahead of it's time concerning graphics, and it had such smooth animated soldiers that they seemed like cartoon characters.  The suspense was fantastic, and I dare to say it is one of the greatest games I played. The game could easly surpass many of today's titles and it is really a classic from the "era of the crash".  

Aliens had many games, and they had movies which survived four sequels without losing the touch. Even the worst movie ( III was considered worst "Alien" ) was better than many other alien-monster themed titles.

I consider AvP fanfiction.
A very bad fanfiction.

[Blood-Pigggy]

Ressurection was actually considered the worst

And if you ask most of the diehard Alien fans, they say number three is highly underrated, it just suffered from poor editing.