Alien Breed: Tower Assault

In the depths of space a holocaust has occured. Intelligent and hostile alien life-forms have taken over the Military Research Unit in the planet Azarin 2E. Chaos and destruction have been wrought on the innocent colonists.

Released: 1994
Platforms: Amiga Amiga 1200 Amiga CD32 MS-DOS
Genres: Action Horror Science Shooter
Developers: Team17
Publishers: Team17
Series: Alien Breed
Modes: Co-op Single-player
Perspective: Bird view / Isometric
Themes: Action Science fiction
Country: United Kingdom England
Languages: English
Composers: Allister Brimble

About

Alien Breed: Tower Assault is a run and gun video game released in 1994 by Team17 for the Amiga, MS-DOS and the Amiga CD32. It is the third in the Alien Breed franchise, and like the first two games in the series, it is a science fiction-themed, top-down shooter.

Keywords

aliens
bloody
corpse

Media

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Gameplay

The game engine is a modified version of that used in Alien Breed II: The Horror Continues. One significant change is the inclusion of multiple exits for each level, making Alien Breed: Tower Assault much less linear than its predecessors—the blurb on the back of the box boasts more than 276 possible ways of completing the game.

Other improvements include Retreat Mode, which allows the player to shoot one's weapon and walk backwards at the same time, although at a slightly slower speed.

Story

A deep space barracks receives a distress signal from a science facility on an otherwise uninhabited planet. With no idea what to expect, a small troop of soldiers are sent to search the planet for survivors and neutralize any threat.

Once the ships near the facility, however, automated security lasers begin attacking, picking the ships off one by one. Only two soldiers survive, crash-landing in the outer perimeter of the facility. The player takes control of the characters there as the game begins.