Alien Resurrection

"Worse than the movie."

I have always loved the Alien franchise. Except for the movie Alien: Resurrection. The trilogy was great, but they had to extend it by cloning Ripley. The story of the movie was absolutely awful. The game....well, it's worse.

Graphics: 4/10
Maybe a step up from the graphics in Alien Trilogy. The Aliens don't quite look as much like cardboard cut outs anymore, but more like square-headed beasts that a ten-year-old drew. The environments are designed exceptionally well, but nothin' to get all googly-eyed over. The whole game just has a dark, damp, musty look and feel to it which isn't always good when playing in lighted areas.

Sound: 9/10
The sound is the only thing in this game that is good. The hiss of an Alien sounds very nice and the skittering of their feet are well done. The sound of your footsteps against the metal catwalk grounds is creepy. Not much music.

Control: 3/10
The control is definitely not very good at all. The buttons are oddly placed and weird combinations are used. No matter how long I played this game, I just couldn't get the hang of the controls. Actually controlling your character is much easier using the Analog control, but that just screws up the whole damn button system.

Gameplay: 2/10
Horrible. You play as four different characters throughout the game from the movie. It is in first person mode, and it's hard to navigate around the ship. Aliens and facehuggers pop out and are difficult as hell to kill, seeing as how the aiming system is terrible. If you do happen to get impregnated by a facehugger, there are little surgery kits lying around so you can "surgically remove" the chestbuster yourself. The Aliens jump on walls and ceilings and you just can't manage to follow them around with your little crosshairs no matter how hard you try. There are switches and buttons placed in certain spots to open certain doors, and sometimes are extremely hard to find. Iv'e always hated when they do that in video games. The end boss, the bad-ass "Newborn" is the hardest boss (or should I say the most annoying) boss I've ever fought. I pooped near two-hundred shotgun shells into his ass before he went down. Good luck..............

Overall: 3/10

Buy or Rent?
Leave it be.

Reviewer's Score: 3/10, Originally Posted: 08/18/05