Alien Breed
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Alien Breed is a science fiction computer game played in the form of a top-down shooter. It was released in 1991 by MicroLeague and Team 17 for DOS and the Amiga.
Gameplay
The game was based heavily, and unofficially, on the Alien films, specificially Aliens. The game consisted of the player or players having to find the lift down the next level, occasionally setting the self destruct sequence to blow the level above them. The players collected a variety of weapons from the space station's computer terminals. Credits found on the ground would have to be saved for those weapons and other enhancements, each giving you an edge over the gradually more and more powerful Alien forces.
Alien Breed also stands, to this day, as one of the best cooperative two-player games made, providing an excellent level of tension, desperation and furious action
Alien Breed Special Edition '92 was an expanded version, sold at budget price, and was hugely popular, staying in the charts for more than a year. It also featured a movie trailer style advert for Team 17's upcoming Superfrog, which was unusual at the time.
In 1993, a fully fledged sequel, Alien Breed II was released and well received, followed by Alien Breed: Tower Assault in 1994. This last game was released with an extraordinarily long prerendered intro sequence on the AmigaCD32 version. It was blasted in magazines for being far too difficult.
Alien Breed 3D and Alien Breed 3D II: The Killing Grounds attempted to expand the franchise into the first person shooter genre, but both games were severely limited by the processing power of the Amigas available at the time, and bore little resemblance to the smooth-scrolling high resolution pixel art of their predecessors.
External Links
- An Alien Breed fan site (http://iwantfish.gazchap.com/)]
- Alien Breed Remake (http://www.mentalillusion.co.uk/alienbreed/)