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In North America, Alien was declared the best new conversion kit at the ACME show by RePlay magazine and several distributors. [5] It went on to win a Silver award from the American Amusement Machine Association (AAMA) for sales achievement in 1990, making it Konami's second best-selling arcade game that year after Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. [13]
Alien: Isolation is a single-player action-adventure game with an emphasis on stealth and survival horror.The player controls Amanda Ripley from a first-person perspective, [1] [2] and must explore a space station and complete mission objectives to progress forward in the story while avoiding, outsmarting, and defeating enemies. [3]
Alien is a science fiction horror and action media franchise centered on the original film series which depicts warrant officer Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) and her battles with an extraterrestrial lifeform, commonly referred to as the Alien ("Xenomorph"), and the prequel series following the exploits of the David 8 android (Michael Fassbender) and the aliens referred to as the "Engineers".
According to Retro Gamer, "the game was praised by the computing press - Zzap!, Amstrad Action, and Sinclair User awarded it 81%, 90% and 5/5 respectively." [1] Crash gave it a score of 84%, with one reviewer declaring it "the best game-of-the-film to date," [3] and the review by Zzap!64 also opined it was "the best tie-in game to date, and a good game to boot."
Aliens: The Computer Game is a 1986 video game developed and published by Activision for the Commodore 64, Apple II based on the film of the same title.As Activision's UK subsidiary Electric Dreams Software had independently released their own version of the game with the same title, [1] the game was renamed for European release.
Aliens: Colonial Marines is a 2013 first-person shooter developed by Gearbox Software and published by Sega for PlayStation 3, Windows, and Xbox 360.Based on the Alien universe and set shortly after the 1986 film Aliens, the game follows a group of Colonial Marines, a fictional military unit, as they confront the Weyland-Yutani corporation in an effort to rescue survivors from the Sulaco ...
The main protagonist, Lt. Col. Henricksen, is a nod to famed sci-fi actor Lance Henriksen, who played the android Bishop in Aliens and Alien³, and Charles Bishop Weyland in Alien vs. Predator. Towards the end of the game, players encounter a "Space Jockey" like huge dead creature found in the spaceship in the first Alien movie.
The game mechanics use a simple system of rolling several six-sided dice to resolve actions. If the player rolls a six on any of the dice, the character is successful. [1] The more difficult the action, the fewer dice the player rolls, making rolling a six more unlikely. Panic and stress dice can modify possible successes or failures. [3]