What type is the alien

[Rejjie Sweet]

It has to be smarter than the warrior type seen in Aliens right? So with the Alien like in 1 and 3 are they a type as smart as a queen?

[Sloaks]

Its a scout.

[Safavi]

The alien is the same ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ alien from alien and aliens. The only diffirance is they look diffirent. You explain that by somethign called genetic variation Theyre are no "types". Plain and ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ simple.

[MI_Trooper0050]

i think its a drone, more of a worker, scouting for hosts, and helping maintain the hive. however the one we seem to run into wants to kill you rahter than use you as a host. there are warriors and preatoreans and such but all in all they do the same thing kill, defend, find hosts. xenomorph thats what we call them we can trash the variations from A:CM but the one in this game seems to resemble the lurker aswell which is basically the same thing, everyone just wants to call each one something different since its a fictional species with very little known and confirmed canon being that every single aliens film or game was made by someone else.

[Alston The Wolf]

Ignore everything but Alien and Aliens. The whole "what type is it" issue is moot considering the focus on source material this game emphasizes.

[Jonboy]

Havent we had this debate already? I seem to remember it was classified as a drone type. The warrior class were not introduced until .......ok, I'll stop myself there.

[Pocket Dog]

It's just an alien (or should I say Alien?). Technically there are different types (drones, warriors, queens, praetorians), but in AI it's just a plain ol' Alien. AI is based off of the first film, so there was only the one type of alien - the Alien.

[cobalt358]

Originally posted by Quantifix:

It's just an alien (or should I say Alien?). Technically there are different types (drones, warriors, queens, praetorians), but in AI it's just a plain ol' Alien. AI is based off of the first film, so there was only the one type of alien - the Alien.

pretty much this. it's "The Alien" from the first film.

the different types is mostly fan fic stuff.

[Mythic Voyager]

A xeno "type" was never mentioned in any of the Alien Trilogy. In fact it wasn't until Aliens, that they used the term Xenomorph. Let alone terms like Drone, Warrior, Spitter etc.

[Mythic Voyager]

all you need know is that it is the "Perfect Organism" and will kill you on sight, or host you for the queen

[Elensar]

The Alien is an Alien. Different variations of Xenomorph only happen when a different creature is impregnated such as the dog in Alien 3 (or OX if you saw the directors cut). The different images you see in the movies are just that movies variation of the same creature.

[Shadow]

Depends what biological entity the facehugger chooses to impregnate. if it's a human, then it will be like the Xeno you see in this game, walking on 2 legs and having a humanoid body appearance, arms, legs etc.

[Shadow]

btw did you know humans have tails? It was lost in the early stages of evolution. The tailbone pretty much exists! Touch your buttocks and the bone on the top, near the spinal cord is the tail.

[Berserk Slayer]

Originally posted by cobalt358:

Originally posted by Quantifix:

It's just an alien (or should I say Alien?). Technically there are different types (drones, warriors, queens, praetorians), but in AI it's just a plain ol' Alien. AI is based off of the first film, so there was only the one type of alien - the Alien.

pretty much this. it's "The Alien" from the first film.

the different types is mostly fan fic stuff.

+1. The treatment of the Alien as a creature, how it looks, stands, moves, behaves and the headspace the game seeks to put you in about it, it all has "Ridley Scott and Hans Rudolf Giger's Creature" written through it like the word "Blackpool" through a stick of rock.

Almost everything that is claimed as a complete certainty about the creature's life-cycle and physiology is fan fic, even if you take the whole movie-canon and the creatures that appear in it.

The creature you are facing has no defined limits to the ways it can breed, its life cycle is a mystery. There are no defined "types", but for all we know the number of "types" is infinite. You do not know how intelligent it is, how it sustains itself, what its senses are and how they work, how it can move, where it sleeps, when it sleeps, if it sleeps, or what its motivations and drives are, if it has them in any sense we would understand. Heck, unless we are talking about the facehugger, we have little idea what it is even made of.

[Krodge]

I prefer to ignore everything after the first film. Thats not to say I didnt like Aliens, But James Cameron turned them into ....Ants...With a Queen and everything. Thats not particularly mysterious or uncomfortable.
I prefer the weird S&M Penis head face raping bio-mechanical looking humaniod that mutates human corpses into eggs. Now thats way more "Alien" to me and it makes me feel gross.
And I dont want to know any more about it than that. The mystery made it great.

[Berserk Slayer]

Originally posted by Krodge:

I prefer to ignore everything after the first film. Thats not to say I didnt like Aliens, But James Cameron turned them into ....Ants...With a Queen and everything. Thats not particularly mysterious or uncomfortable.
I prefer the weird S&M Penis head face raping bio-mechanical looking humaniod that mutates human corpses into eggs. Now thats way more "Alien" to me and it makes me feel gross.
And I dont want to know any more about it than that. The mystery made it great.

Indeed. I love Aliens, but I prefer to treat Alien as if it were in a vacuum. There is literally nothing disturbing about the creature neatly fitting into the behaviour patterns of a common garden animal we have all stepped on at some point.

Funnily enough, when I watch Aliens or Alien³, I treat each as if it were the last Alien film, which works best since each subsequent film craps on the one(s) before a little bit.