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2003 · Arcade · Indie
Alien Shooter
PlayStation console exclusive
Alien Shooter is an top-down shooter video game from Sigma Team created in 2003. It is the first title in the Alien Shooter series to be followed by Alien Shooter: Vengeance. Alien Shooter has two expansions, Fight for Life and The Experiment. They each contain five new levels, including the conclusion to the alien shooter story.
- Released
- 14 September 2003
- Platforms
- AndroidPlayStation 3PlayStation 4PlayStation VitaWindowsiOS
- Genres
- ArcadeIndieRole-playingScienceShooter
- Developers
- —
- Publishers
- —
- Modes
- Single-player
- Perspective
- Bird view / Isometric
- Themes
- ActionScience fictionHorror
- Country
- Russia
- Age ratings
- ESRB MPEGI 16
- Languages
- English, Russian
- Time to beat
- 2hmain story6hcompletionist
About
Alien Shooter (Russian: Alien Shooter: Начало Вторжения) is an isometric, top-down shooter video game developed and released by Sigma Team, a Russian game development studio. Released on May 18, 2003, it was initially available on Microsoft Windows. The game's conclusion was realized in two expansion packs, both consisting of five-levels and released in 2004: Fight for Life, released on June 14, and The Experiment, released on September 22.
The sequel, Alien Shooter: Vengeance, was released in 2006. In June 2015, Sigma Team and co-developer 8floor released a PlayStation Vita port of the game.
›Story
The player plays as a marine tasked to clear out an experimental laboratory where teleportation devices have allowed legions of aliens to pour into the world. The player has been given explosives to open up the sealed doors into these top secret areas; they had security measures in place so there will be stationery mini-gun turrets available to take them out. The government has given access to all the most advanced weaponry available in hopes of ridding the problem after receiving too many casualties of the previous military assault. A heavy burden is placed on one man.
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Gameplay
Alien Shooter is presented in a top-down, third-person view (3/4 perspective), and takes place across nine levels of increasing difficulty. The main objective of each level is to eliminate all the aliens. To do so, players must access all of the areas that the level has to offer (by completing tasks such as reactivating power generators, destroying walls, and disabling force fields, etc.) and removing the alien threats within. Later levels feature teleportation devices, which spawn enemies indefinitely, and can only be destroyed by special explosives scattered throughout the level.
Characters have four stats: Strength, Accuracy, Health, and Speed, and players have the option to play as either a male or a female character. Male characters have higher strength, and higher health stats, whereas female characters have improved accuracy and higher speed.
Story
In the early year 2030, scientists from M.A.G.M.A Energy Corporation created the bio-engineering creatures by mixing both animal DNA and alien cells from a meteorite they had found. Those creatures have been successfully created, such as mutant frogs/spawn frogs, multi-armed bipeds/raptors, giant spiders, and tank rhinos. However, something bad happens, the aliens plan to escape from their cage while using a teleporter device as their escape plan. The Protagonist's task is to eliminate the aliens inside the abandoned experiment labs.
As the protagonist explores the lab, the root of the problem is revealed to be a malfunction with an experimental teleportation device. Somehow, the aliens have managed to flood through en masse, killing the scientists and guards who were working in the lab. Delving deeper into the complex, the protagonist encounters ever more powerful aliens and realizes that all the teleporters must be destroyed. The game reaches its conclusion when the protagonist has eliminated all of the aliens and destroyed all the teleporters in the laboratory.
Reception
In 2012, GameSpot gave Alien Shooter a 6.4 out of 10 rating, writing, "While the game makes good on its promise of giving you aliens to shoot, the result is very repetitive."
Releases by platformdates and regions as published
Editions and related releases
- Included in
- Doodle Devil & Alien Shooter
- Expanded editions
- Alien Shooter: Last Hope
- Expansions
- Alien Shooter: Fight for LifeAlien Shooter: The Experiment
- Followed by
- Q4051397
- Remade as
- Alien Shooter World
- Built on it
- Alien Shooter: Fight for LifeAlien Shooter: The ExperimentAlien Shooter WorldAlien Shooter - Last Hope
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