Alien Resurrection

Overview

Alien Resurrection is a 2000 first-person shooter game developed by Argonaut Games and published by Fox Interactive for the PlayStation. Based on the 1997 film of the same name, the game was originally intended to coincide with the film's release, but was mired in development hell for a few years, finally being completed and released in 2000.

The game is a first person shooter (FPS) with survival horror elements. It consists of ten levels, the first nine taking place in the Xenomorph-infested USM Auriga, with the last aboard the mercenary ship Betty.

Following the same basic plot of the movie, the game takes place years after the events of Alien 3 and follows a cloned Lt. Ellen Ripley awaking aboard the USM Auriga and trying to escape from the xenomorph-infested research spaceship USM Auriga along with a crew of mercenaries.

Work on the game began in early 1996. Lacking any initial directive from Fox Interactive beyond that it be a game for the Alien franchise, Argonaut designed a game engine with an overhead shooter format inspired by the recent game Loaded. Pleased with the prototype, Fox Interactive green lit the project and further assigned the team to create a game which would appear in the film. Fox announced that Alien Resurrection would be released in late 1997 on the Sony PlayStation, Sega Saturn, and Microsoft Windows.

The video game received "mixed or average" reviews, as reported by the review aggregation website Metacritic. Critics praised the game's atmosphere and frequently scary gameplay. However, criticism was directed at the graphics, as well as the harsh difficulty level. Jeff Lundrigan of NextGen said that the game had "Nice atmosphere, but what starts out frustrating quickly becomes kinda slow and dull."

Official trailer

Trailer. Watch on YouTube

Screenshots

Game details

Genres

Shooter, Tactical, Adventure

Developer

Argonaut Games

Publisher

Fox Interactive

Series

Alien

Platforms

Windows, Sega Saturn, PlayStation, Sega Dreamcast

Age rating

ESRB M

Modes

Single player

Yes

Local multiplayer

No

Online multiplayer

No

Co op

No

Age ratings

USK

16

ACB

MA 15+

ESRB

M

Release dates

Playable today

Playable offline todayYes

Single-player only, with no online features.

Online

Plays offlineYes

Credits

Region

US