Anyone who actually bought this game deserved to have wasted their money, but the low quality seems unfair even to the unwitting customers. Predator: Requiem was a shameless cash-in that sought to take advantage of fans. Was anyone actually surprised that this game turned out to be awful? Based on a terrible film and made for a mediocre portable console, Alien vs. The first-person view adds to the horror as you’ll never know what’s around the next corner, and the game is definitely best played alone in a dark room with headphones.ĭLC that allows you to play scenes from the first Alien film make the entire experience even more authentic, highlighting just how much effort was put into re-creating the atmosphere of the original and most terrifying film.īAD: Alien vs. Hiding in lockers, under tables and in ventilation ducts will never make you feel truly safe, and while you can fight off androids and other humans, the xenomorph is always the hunter, never the prey. Without effective weapons with which to fight the xenomorph, you have to run and hide whenever it shows up (and it can show up at almost any time), meaning fear and tension are your constant companions as you play. You take on the role of Ripley’s daughter as she searches for her mother (chronologically between the first and second films), but inevitably runs into a xenomorph as well as a whole space station full of crazed androids. GOOD: Alien: Isolation (Windows, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One)Īrguably the best Alien game made to date, Alien: Isolation managed to capture the atmosphere of the films better than any other attempt. There have now been over 40 Alien games on various platforms, so let’s load up our pulse rifles, prepare the dropship and strap on our motion detectors to find the best and worst of the bunch. Clearly this wasn’t the most auspicious start for the digital arm of Alien, but it didn’t stop people trying. The first Alien game was released in 1982 for the Atari 2600, and there’s a good reason you don’t remember it it was a Pac-Man clone with xenomorphs (as the aliens are known in the franchise) taking the place of the ghosts, and a generic human replacing Pac-Man himself.

With the newly released Alien: Covenant chilling audiences in cinemas today, I thought it was time to take a look at some of the best and worst games based on the franchise. While the quality hasn’t always been constant (I’m trying hard to forget Alien: Resurrection), the highs of the series have given us some of the best films and games of all time. The Alien franchise has now been running for nearly 40 years, with the first film having been released in 1979, and has stretched its scaly talons out into many media including books, video games and pinball.

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