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alien review

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 04, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Loads of 2d fun!! With gadgets to use and lots of punches,any
fans of old school games should pick pick this up now.
One of the best 2d games I've enjoyed in years!
I hope people will continue to make games like this in
years to come. I had a blast playing this game.

Alien Hominid

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 01, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Still looking for awexome on your PS2 or GCN? Let me recommend Alien Hominid.

Originally released as a flash game on Newgrounds [...]

It's a cartoony, humor-oriented, gory, classic-styled, side-scrolling shooter, kind of what you'd get if you mixed Contra and Earthworm Jim.

Your character is a little alien dude who crash lands on Earth, and then the FBI comes after him. Because, y'know, it's the FBI's job to kill aliens. After that, you have the opportunity to face off with Soviet soldiers and Area 51 personnel!

Rest assured, the console version has a lot more added to it than the prototype flash version on the Newgrounds site, which is far more challenging than the console edition.

You've probably heard me say before, but the console version features:

-More power-ups: 5 more than the flash prototype version, 7 in all; Fire, Ice, Plasma, Needle, and Spread shots to name but the 5 I can off hand; and let's not forget grenades, and being able to blow up buildings and other background structures to reveal hidden secrets!

-More special moves: Right and left dodge rolling, picking up and throwing enemies, burrowing under the ground and killing enemies by dragging them down into the ground with you.

-Use of vehicles: Cars, trucks, tanks, and maybe some more others, for transport, offense, and batter ramming!

-Different and improved level design, music, and cut scenes.

These, of course, are not all of the improvements, just those I can name off the top of my head at this ridiculously late hour of the night.

Again, the prototype flash version of the game on the Newgrounds site DOES NOT EQUAL the console version of the game available for both the PS2 and GCN.

Fast-paced, easy-to-pick, difficult-to-master.

And remember, FAT KIDS give you POWER-UPs. Because they're awexome.

Everything Metal Slug should be.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 11, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is for Metal Slug and Contra fans. Basically, it takes everything great about those games, and adds an Itchy and Scratchy type cartoon violence art style to it.

Really, its better in a lot of ways than Metal Slug and Contra, its longer, just as hard, but it has a lot more bosses, and its pretty funny too. Also, you can do a bunch of funny things instead of just shooting people. And it has a few great Sinistar-ish spaceship levels, so I guess if you like the old school (I sure do), this game is like a dream come true.

In fact, I really only have two complaints:

1. The grenades don't seem to do any more damage than the shots from your gun.

2. Most of the power ups for your guns (except for the machine gun and the gas gun) don't really do anything other than change the look of whats going on (i.e. how the enemies die and how the gunfire looks).

But to be honest, I didn't notice either until my second time through the game, I was too busy having tons of crazy, fast, old-school-action-game fun.

Alien Hominid is a real treat. Highly recommended.

Demented fun, hardly like anything else you'll play

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 31, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Originally a smash hit flash game on the internet, Alien Hominid garnered such a following that it made it's way onto consoles; and those of us who never played it before can be glad that it did. A 2-D run and gun shooter (think old school Contra or Metal Slug, but with a more twisted sense of humor), you play as a homicidal, yellow alien dodging men in black and other hazards in an effort to find your crashed space ship and get back home. The first thing you'll notice is the game's eye bleeding art style, and for being on the PS2, there's no slowdown and the graphics don't ever get choppy. The next thing you'll notice is that Alien Hominid is incredibly hard: there are hordes of enemies attacking from all sides, and the boss battles aren't easy either, yet somehow the game is still a blast to play. The control is easy to pick up and the game sounds fantastic, rounding out the package for this surprisingly incredible and fun game that harkens back to the days of old school gaming with a serious charm. All in all, if you dig classic side scrolling shooters like Contra and Metal Slug, pick up Alien Hominid; it's cheap, twisted, and you'll likely not find many other games that have this much attitude to spare.

Hilarous, gory, game. AWSOME!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 20, 2006
Author: Amazon User

In most alien games, the aliens look hideous but not this little guy. I have rented this game 3 times, but I want to buy it! My brother had this game at a sleepover party and it was a hit! You play as a little alien with no name that shoots, slices, and bites the heads off of FBI agents. I love the level where you can drop FBI's into a wood chipper with your UFO:-) If don't own this game, BUY IT!

JUST GO OUT AND BUY IT!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: March 03, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Funnessity- 10
controls-10
Graphics- -10 (negative)

Besides the teribble graphics this game is amazing

Freaky Fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: November 10, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is so original it's not even funny. first off, the graphics are awsome and funny, not any of those pixels or anything, real art. the controls and such are so simple and easy, a 2 yr old could figure it out. i love the main character and arcade-like style of this game. awsome moves, fast paced, and it's actually pretty hard. its a sweet mindless fun game. the best move: FREAK OUT, he jumps on the guys' heads and bites it off, throws them, or rips/ cuts them in half. its so awsome.

How can you NOT buy this?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: September 18, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is excellent. From the gameplay to the way the controlls feel. It just works.

Plus it is only 20 bucks (the last i checked anyway)

JUST BUY IT!!!!

Any game where you can bite somebody's head off must be good

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 11, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Fun, fun, fun. But tough, tough, tough.

I won't bore you comparing this came to Contra like every other reviewer probably has. What I will say is that this game is action-packed. You shoot stuff. You shoot some more stuff. You avoid having stuff shoot you back. Then you do some more shooting.

It's a simple concept, but man, is it fun. The graphic presentation is a delight, and this game has so much personality. Just a shame everyone has to buy Resident Evil and Metal Gear (not that they're bad games) and just doesn't take the time to find a gem like this. Video games are like movies now. The smaller titles just get buried under an avalanche of hype for a handful of blockbusters.

Oh, well. Never mind my moment of melancholy. Just buy this game and enjoy shooting stuff and watching it blow up real good.

greatest 8-bit game ever

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: March 14, 2005
Author: Amazon User

it's got everything. sounds like contra, plays like mega man, metroid and zelda ii. he sounds similar to mario when he jumps. you blast a lot of stuff. music and stages are played like a cartoon show from about that era. oh yeah, and it's hard like that too. i died a lot.

i can't really complain, this is about as classic as it gets for me.

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