Recent reviews by chris_bryer

With the right people it's fun, but past that is honestly a very basic game with little to it.

Really hope the second one has better gameplay and is more stable and does not lean so much on the players to make it run.

6 out of 10

Only game i know here you can die of botulism... AND I LOVE IT!

Its a good game... When it works and when it is modded...

Geat fps with rpg'like elements. In short, good game but not a good Fallout.

Good thing i got this for more then half price C:

Alright, i think i need to make some disclaimers befor i go on.
1-Im a huge fan of the Alien films (yes, all of them)
2-I have never been a fan of games like Slenderman (Although i am interested in checking out Outlast and the first Amnesia)
3 And this is my first review.

Now as a fan of the Alien films i ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ loved this game. Also i think i should warn people before playing this game that it is not for everyone. I have seen some reviews (on some gaming sites) that have slammed this game and i'm seeing a trend for why some dislike it. Now like the original film its all about the atmosfera, musical score and the building of tension. If you need instant gratification then this game is not for you. This game will require patience and time like the original film. Also even though there are guns and you can shoot stuff this is NOT a action "shoot'em up" game. Actually unless you're surrounded by upgraded Working Joes and you have the shotgun or the built gun and you haven't saved in like an hour just... Dont even bother. DAMN IT! The revolver looks so cool but it's a trap, A TRAP I TELL YOU! Oh, and did i already say there will be spoilers in this? Well... TOO LATE!

As i said before as a fan of the films i think this game is fantastic. The atmosphere, the lighting, the overall retro 70's future look are all just perfect. Plus i can run this baby on max setting without much of a problem and my computer is not worth 2000$ so crank them graphics up. And overall i enjoyed the story and the acting (even though outside of cutscenes the lip syncing is not so good) very much. What this game add to the mythos of the Alien universe is quite allot and i thank them for it. And all of the little touches here and there for fans such as myself was a huge plus. Such as later on in the game the Working Joes don't just go berserk they start actively hunting and killing people. So in that level you find a man that was killed by one of the androids with a rolled up magazine shoved down his throat which anyone the remembers the first Alien film will knows what that is directly referencing.

Overall the gameplay is good but like i said BEWARE OF TRAPS! and what i mean by that is you are given a revolver(which looks awesome by the way) but using it almost always gets you killed. I only found about a handful of times where i was forced to us stuff like the revolver, shotgun and the built gun So you can most of the time either try to avoid conflict with the humans that are scared ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ and willing to let off some bullets your way if it will make sure they live a second longer (which most of the time it won't). Or the psychopathic Working Joes that want to "help you" by either choking you to death or smashing your skull in. Or you can do what i did many times was let the Alien deal with some of the problems such as them pesky humans. Although it never so well with the andrians but hey, a man can dream. Wait... Have i written this much and never even talked about the Alien yet?

I'll say this. From the first moment i saw the damn thing come out of a vent my palms get right sweaty and my anus closed like a cigar cutter. Playing this game can be ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ stressful so i personally played this game in two to three hour spurts. But hey, maybe i'm just a ♥♥♥♥♥ but thats how i did it. But to the Alien, it is truly phenomenal. Not just how it looks but how it acts. I had the damn thing more than once outright trick me or flank me but later on you can get into a rhythm where you can sometimes get an idea of what it will do next (sometimes anyways). It sometimes can truly feel alive and like its messing with you. Now one thing about it is that you CAN NOT KILL IT! At all. Only fire will make it run and hide for a short time. So when you first get the Flamethrower you feel some damn empowered but ill tell you that feeling do last for long. Also one of the few problems i had with the game is that latter on you do come across MORE THAN ONE ALINE! YA! I know. So it bothered me that even though it's way later on in the game and you have some ballin' weapons you still can't kill any of them. Now i can understand that you would need an high powered rifle to kill one of those thing and how lower caliber weapons would just piss it off. But i'm damn sure the shotgun or the built gun should do SOME damage or at least make the damn beat run off for a bit but it never worked for me. If it is possible to make one of them run with something besides fire then im sorry i inserted this part then. Although i was a little disappointed that the alien does not climb on the walls after you like something's out of the second film Aliens but thats just a silly little thing i realised. But when you do see that thing scandal after you're in a vent im damn sure you will ♥♥♥♥ your pants. OH! And do you like to watch yourself die? Do you enjoy being ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ by a xenomorphing 8 foot tall alien with either its tale or tung? Oh glob! I hope those are its tale and tung... Anyways, ya... Get used to dying cuz it's gonna happen and happen often.

How reading some other stuff people have done about this game is you hear the same to things. Save all the time and do not run ever. Now for the first part i for sure agree. Save and do it often. But remember you are not save when saving. Hell, you have to wait some time for the save console to even be usable again so that can make some tension. For the second part i have to pertest. There has been about three or four situation where running saved my ass. Now i do not recommend it for everyone but if you want to be a rebel like me then i say go for it.

Now going back to the gameplay and the character you play as, i actually like how you're not some awesome ninja or some badass space marine but just some mechanic. Ripply is no hero and i like how some of the mechanics reflect who she is. Like how you can just build random but useful stuff on the fly since she is an engineer. I like it how she can't run that fast or parcore over stuff or even use guns that will. I think the mechanics directly demonstrate her character. Not a warrior, not a ninja but just some woman in a really bad situation. So to me even though i found some of the stealth mechanic to be lacking compared to other fps/stealth games i can see how it was done for a reason. And the stealth mechanics that are there seem to be there just to build even more tension and suspense. Such as poking your head around the corner or trying to get a better view when you're hiding in a locker. And the beeping of your tracker as the thing gets closer and closer. All of it is done for a reason and i see why. Now i'm not say the game mechanically or otherwise is perfect, nothing is. I found that sometimes it would just randomly crash or just after loading a game i was unable to interact with any object (which only happened once but still). Or like i said before about the lipsyncing being kind of off almost all of the time when someone talked. And also as i already said, this game is not for everyone and i think some of the "personal" review should be taken with a grain of salt since they say the acting thing i have said and even point out the same problems yet give it a lower score.

Also i think i should talk about how i really disliked the ending. To me it was very unsatisfying and almost anticlimactic. And it just felt like sequel bait to me. But everything leading up to it was really ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ awesome. So if you cant tell i really did like this game and i am glad i grabbed it. If you are a fan of Aliens and don't want to play a "shootem up" game and i think this will be for you.