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One of the best games available for the Super Nintendo.
5
Rating: 5,
Useful: 7 / 7
Date: February 05, 2003
Author: Amazon User
Let's be clear: Alien 3 for the Super Nintendo is not the same Alien 3 available for the Sega Genesis, or for any other platform. This is a unique game with some of the system's most amazing graphic effects, ranging from swirling mist to pouring rain. The sounds for the aliens are perfect, the control is tight, Ripley's character animation is wonderful, and the music is the most driving and memorable stuff you will find anywhere on the SNES. Alien 3 is a definition of perfection.
It may look like a side-scrolling action game, but this is anything but. Each stage has you checking in with the Fiorina 161 computers and reading about your objectives. You may need to weld a door shut, replace a missing part for a necessarily machine, rescue some prisoners, repair fuse boxes, or destroy a nest of alien eggs. Each stage offers you around six objectives, and you can complete them in any order. You must journey around the stage's map to get to where you need to be, racing through locations ripped straight out of the films and recreated as beautiful, multi-scrolling backgrounds. Once you complete all the objectives and return to the computer terminal for the last time, you're done... until the next level.
With a game this huge, you'll be happy to have a simple password system to back you up every time you complete a stage. You'll start memorizing where every medpack and weapons store is and rationing more and more desperately as the stages get mroe intense. Ripley has a pulse rifle, grenade launcher and flamethrower at her disposal, and a motion tracker aids her progress to boot. All of these weapons are used with the touch of a button; there is no need to cycle through your inventory.
Alien fans - do not hesitate, this is the best game incarnation of the franchise ever created. SNES owners - again, do not hestitate, this is one of the best games for the system regardless of its movie license.
An ok game
3
Rating: 3,
Useful: 2 / 2
Date: October 12, 2001
Author: Amazon User
This game is VERY difficult, not only because you get one life, and have to fight thousands of aliens, but each of the five levels you must go through takes an hour to three hours to complete. It is an intensely tedious game, but there are some nice animations. You play Lt. Ripley and must complete six tasks for each level to complete it. These tasks can be to save prisoners from the alien captures, fry some alien eggs, seal doors and fix piping or any other amount of tasks. There are only three weapons (flamethrower, machine gun and grenade launcher), so not much gameplay there. Bottom line is there are 10 types of aliens and 5000 of them each.
Excellent
4
Rating: 4,
Useful: 2 / 3
Date: October 20, 2001
Author: Amazon User
As far a super nintento games go, this one is awesome. You charge headfirst into a massive, winding complex of tunnels and corridors that are inhabitied by about a million aliens. You must complete missions that take you to the bowels of the facility. It is wisely accompanied by renditions of James Horner's excellent score for ALIENS. It creates a truly unique gaming experience
An Excellent Game,
5
Rating: 5,
Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 26, 2006
Author: Amazon User
i very well enjoyed this game it is alot funner than Alien trilogy for ps1. In this game you actually play the character and the graphics are awesome. This game was loades of fun and action packed.
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