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2010 · Team17 · Adventure · Arcade

Alien Breed 2: Assault

Can you survive the alien onslaught? Alien Breed 2: Assault is the second chapter in the Alien Breed series, and is an explosive science fiction arcade-shooter with an epic story, swarms of highly intelligent alien enemies, high-impact weaponry, highly detailed and rich environments, developed using Epic Games' Unreal Engine 3. Take control of the hero, Conrad, the ship’s Chief Engineer, and continue your fight for survival across the fatally damaged space vessel, against a ruthless assault by an alien horde. Your only hope relies on reigniting the alien space craft’s monstrous engines to rescue you from impending annihilation.

Released
22 September 2010
Platforms
LinuxPlayStation 3WindowsXbox 360
Genres
AdventureArcadeScienceShoot 'em upShooter
Developers
Team17
Publishers
Team17
Series
Alien Breed
Modes
Single-player
Perspective
Bird view / Isometric
Themes
ActionScience fiction
Engine
Unreal Engine 3
Country
United KingdomEngland
Age ratings
ESRB TUSK 16PEGI 16
Languages
English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish (Spain)
Time to beat
5.5hmain story12hwith extras9hcompletionist

About

Alien Breed 2: Assault is a video game in Team17's Alien Breed series and is the second new title in the series since 1996 after Alien Breed Evolution. It was released on Steam, Xbox Live Arcade, and PlayStation Network in 2010. The follow-up Alien Breed 3: Descent was released on 17 November 2010.

The game continues the story of Alien Breed Evolution (and consequently, Alien Breed: Impact) of engineer Theodore J. Conrad fighting against aliens on the Leopold spaceship.

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Gameplay

Alien Breed 2: Assault is a third-person shooter set in a futuristic spacecraft and played from an isometric perspective. The player controls the main character Conrad across a series of levels and is tasked with a series of missions to progress in the story, and finish each level. Whilst accomplishing these missions, the player will find a variety of alien enemies who will attack on sight. To fight these aliens, the player is provided with a set of different weapons and tools, which can be improved. Ammunition and items such as med kits can only be obtained through computer terminals, which also serve as save points.

Conrad can move freely in all directions; the camera can also be rotated at will by the player. Conrad can be affected by the environment, and he will receive damage if hit by explosions, fires, electrical disturbances, and enemy turrets. Every level has an amount of data pads, which contain relevant information about the game's story. Assault includes a survival mode that puts the player to fight as much aliens as possible before being taken down. It can be played in both single and multiplayer modes.

Story

Assault is an immediate sequel to Alien Breed: Evolution. Conrad, Chief Engineer of the starship Leopold, attempts to restart the engines of a hostile, alien-infested ghost ship that has crashed into his ship dragging them both towards the planet's surface. When this fails, the android Mia boards the ghost ship, and Conrad must escort her to the bridge where she can hack into the ship's computers and restart the engines. Upon arrival, Mia finds that she must connect herself to the ship's main computer.

The ships artificial intelligence then kills Mia and possesses her corpse. It reveals itself to be the ship's chief science officer, who became an AI to achieve immortality. It then reveals that the ship is a 300-year-old scientific research vessel from Earth that went missing and that the chief science officer is responsible for the creation of the aliens. Conrad then sets out to destroy the AI in order to restart the engines.

Reception

Alien Breed 2: Assault received "mixed or average reviews" on all platforms according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.

IGN gave a very positive review of the game, saying that "It's a small game that feels big while you are playing it, a laudable accomplishment for a $10 title."

Releases by platformdates and regions as published

PlatformReleasedRegions
Windows22 September 2010Worldwide
Xbox 36022 September 2010Worldwide
Linux22 September 2010Worldwide
PlayStation 322 September 2010Worldwide

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