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Alien Resurrection (video game)

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started. Frustrated at having a year's worth of work completely scrapped, a significant fraction of the development team quit the project. In November 1997, by which time the Sega Saturn version had been dropped, Fox announced a Spring 1998 release window for the title. After this release window was
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The player uses four different characters from the movie. Ripley is the main playable character for a majority of the game's levels, while Call, DiStephano, and Christie each get their own level as well. Each character has their own special equipment. Some players have different weapons. The
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criticised the then-uncommon dual analogue stick control scheme, describing the game as "almost unplayably difficult to control and unreasonably hard to enjoy". Despite this, the control scheme would soon become standard for first-person shooters on consoles.
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The game sold 250,000 units. It was ultimately a financial failure for Argonaut Games due to its lengthy development period, contributing to the studio's then-ongoing cash flow issues that culminated in its 2004 liquidation.
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When the Xenomorphs bred from the queen that was extracted from her cloned body escape containment and begin running rampant aboard the Auriga, Ripley must unite with a group of rag-tag mercenaries to escape the vessel.
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controller for simultaneous movement and aiming. According to Ben Broth, a tester at Fox Interactive, the game's twin stick control scheme immediately went down well with the game's QA team. The game also supports the
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Morale dropped further when the team were invited to a private screening of the film; they found it underwhelming at best, and were disappointed that the game they had made for the film,
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The game was finally released exclusively for the Sony PlayStation in 2000 (20 October in the US and 1 December in Europe), almost three years after the film ran its course in theaters.
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Fox weekly shipped the team boxes of scripts, storyboards, and raw footage from the film as reference material. After working on the game for a year, Argonaut Games decided that the
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The game is a first person shooter (FPS) with survival horror elements. It consists of ten levels, the first nine taking place in the Xenomorph-infested
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The player must complete different tasks to progress across the game. These include killing clones and ejecting overheating escape pods.
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said that the game was "a fine first-person shooter, but unless you're a big fan of the films, there are even better options (
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selection includes a laser rifle, double barrel shotgun, grenade launcher, Shock rifle, flamer-thrower and a rocket launcher.
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Work on the game began in early 1996. Lacking any initial directive from Fox Interactive beyond that it be a game for the
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said that the game had "Nice atmosphere, but what starts out frustrating quickly becomes kinda slow and dull."
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genre had become outdated, and restarted development as a 3D action-adventure in the vein of
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gave the game three 3.5/5 scores for graphics, sound, and fun factor, and 4.5/5 for control.
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s review of the game, one critic gave it 8/10, and the rest each gave it a score of 5.5/10.
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Following the same basic plot of the movie, the game takes place years after the events of
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for several years, finally being completed and released in 2000. The game was developed by
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Mylonas, Eric "ECM"; Weitzner, Jason "Fury"; Ngo, George "Eggo" (November 2000).
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s viewpoint of the game, three critics gave it each a score of 85, 78, and 73.
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In addition to traditional drone aliens, the player also faces marines and
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MacDonald, Mark; Kujawa, Kraig; Boyer, Crispin (November 2000).
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with an overhead shooter format inspired by the recent game
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awaking aboard the USM Auriga and trying to escape from the
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The video game received "mixed" reviews according to the
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missed, the game was announced for a Fall 1998 release.
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would be released in late 1997 on the Sony PlayStation,
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Developer(s)
Argonaut Games
Publisher(s)
Fox Interactive
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Designer(s)
Programmer(s)
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NA
EU
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First-person shooter
Single-player
first-person shooter
video game
film of the same name
development hell
Argonaut Games
Fox Interactive
PlayStation
Alien 3
Lt. Ellen Ripley
xenomorph
facehuggers
Alien
game engine
Loaded

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