Alien resurrection on the ps1 had a message pop up saying “this game is best played in the dark” and I remember it been freaky as a kid. Good game otherwise
@@Detective_L resurrection was very jumpy. Loved that more as the aliens would creep up walls and jump you during strobe lights and come out of Shadows.
I remember picking up Alien Trilogy and Guardian Heroes from Babbage's when they were closing down for $9.99 each. Still have the price stickers on them to prove it!
I got it disc only (and winning post :) at a disorganized retro store in the bay area about 10 years ago. Got about 12 disc only Saturn games for $50 out of a binder since almost nobody cared about Saturn back then.
That really goes for a lot of more modern FPS (post-Doom games, though in Doom the chain-gun made a decent semi-auto sniper - if you did a two round burst both shots were always accurate), you only want to "spray and pray" when a single/several fast targets are in your face and you have no other choice
You forgot the biggest thing - *The Soundtrack* I got tired of playing the game, because it was difficult. I just put this disc inside my CD player and enjoyed the tracks.
I once heard one track of the Soundtrack in a promo for one of their travel documentaries on the german TV Station VOX, back in 2000 / 2002 or so. It was really weird. But it shows how popular Alien Trilogy was over here.
I love this game. The soundtrack alone is worthy of admission, making everything super creepy. Good job bringing up the awesome sound design, SEGA Lord X. Great review too.
I had an amazing time playing this on Saturn. Going into the last level. No health. No ammo. Dropping into the tunnels when my motion detector suddenly starts going wild. I beat it but it was a hell of a last level.
The PS1 lighting just makes the game too dark IMO, the Saturn version looks a lot better. That said, even nowadays this game is terrifying! Like legitimately I had to turn the console off during that final mission.
Yeah i too prefer the Saturn version over the PS1 version. Also the Saturn Version doesn't suffer from the typical Playstation bug which is the inability to show straight lines but instead turning everything into zig zags.
I absolutely adore this game. I still own the same copy I bought brand new in my teens, and played through it last year. I was surprised by how well it held up and how much fun it still was.
@@howiegruwitz3173 It never was, I had both systems and played the Saturn more due to all the arcade ports and 2d fighters. PS1 was good for the big exclusives.
I remember renting this game in the 90s, like you said, incredible atmosphere from a game of that era. In an interview (can't remember the source) a Probe directive said that in the past they were having lots of multiple games/ports being developed at once and in this game they learned from their mistakes, shifting all the studio efforts in order to make the best possible experiece for one game
Paid off, everyone I know at the time who had ps had this in their collection. It was also pretty cheap talking £5-10 2nd hand eventually. The platinum release halved the price was £20 in the UK.
I'm actually frankly surprised at the numerous bits on the video where Probe is referred to, quite matter-of-factly as if there was a general consensus about it, as a crappy developer. Honestly, both their original ip games for 8 bit computers, like Trantor and Savage, and also their works based on licences, like Out Run Europa, were widely loved and renowned amongst fans and critics alike. Even their work during the 90s, after their acquisition by Acclaim, was way more hit than miss, with many huge hits, both commercial and critic-wise, - T2, Alien3, Alien Trilogy, Die Hard Trilogy, Extreme G, to name a few - making up for the misses - which could be blamed, more often than not, on poor upper management and rushed development cycles more than a lack of talent.
I had this game on PS1 as a teenager, I didn't have a Memory card and I remember having to write down these long ass passwords for each stage, I'm talking like, 20-25 characters per password.
Probe Entertainment actually did a really good job with Alien Trilogy (along with Die Hard Trilogy) and it still holds up pretty well today. Probe also did solid job with the Alien 3 game.
Did anyone else experience a glitch that caused all data in your external memory cart to be wiped/corrupted when playing this game? Or was that just an issue with certain PAL versions of the game?
I only know of such glitch when passing fighting Vipers in the Japanese version. (It instantly deleted all saved games in the memory, damn was I pissed seeing all my TA times in Rally and Daytona gone)
I had a saving issue with it too and was unable to beat the game as a result. I wasn't tech-savy yet, so I could never figure out what was going on with that game. However I could never put that game down and it was still my favorite, even managed to get a couple jump scares out of me. Wasn't till I started collecting for it recently that I was able to close that chapter (Action Replay, son!) . But I know exactly what you're talking about, this was on NTSC as well.
I was utterly obsessed with this game for about 5 months from the time it launched. I must have played theough it somewhere in the triple digits, no joke. I wanted nothing but MORE.
Being a big fan of the Aliens movies, I was so excited about playing this one, and although I liked it in many ways, I preferred Aliens Vs Predator on the Atari Jaguar, simply because of the atmosphere of the game. The soundtrack on Alien trilogy simply takes the tension out of it, as opposed to the Atari game, where you only hear the humming of the power generators throughout the game. I also prefer the Atari version where you can roam freely on the entire base instead of this level to level design. I almost crapped my pants a thousand times while playing AvP on the Jaguar, whereas Alien Trilogy was more like a river cruise, where you don't really feel nervous about what's coming around the corner.
@@foch3 exactly, the sound from the motion tracker, constant humming from power generator, and and sound of doors opening somewhere, knowing you were about to be attacked sometime very soon.
@@Gatorade69 AVP2 certainly looked brilliant. But nothing before or after has made me sit on the edge of my seat for hours and hours like AVP on the Jaguar.
I recently became a Saturn owner and soon after discovered your channel, and I’ve been binging your videos nonstop since then. It feels like if there’s any game/genre/publisher on the Saturn I’d want to learn more about, Sega Lord X has a video covering the topic.
The reason Doom looked like crap was because the software engineer was forced to make it look as close to PC as possible and use the CPU, not the GPU for rendering.
@@KRAFTWERK2K6 The 3DO version was a whole other level of incompetence because the guy who bought the rights to make the 3DO version thought he knew how to make games, but had no clue and the programmer brought in had a very short time to make it because 3DO wanted Doom in time for Christmas. The Saturn port was Carmack's fault and has even said himself he made a mistake. John Romero was on vacation and usually would have been the one to make the decision and would have given the okay to how it was being made for Saturn at that point.
I owned the Saturn version back in high school and played the living shit out of it. Didn’t play the PS1 version until a few years ago and was surprised how much the lighting improved things. Better atmosphere and the sections where you needed your shoulder lamp to see we’re very tense.
I played it a lot on the Saturn back in the 90's. I also played the PS1 and even checked the DOS versions, they are similar enough with one another, even being clunky sometimes, I really enjoy the atmosphere and the overall gameplay, it still gives me chills when a scary alien monster appears silently from nowhere.
Holy shit, these games honestly look really cool. I've always loved the aesthetic of the early 3D graphics era of PC and console games. I think they look just as cool, if not cooler than modern games. I kind of see them as having a different artstyle, like Impressionist or Minimalist or something. They're much more interesting looking than hyper-realistic games.
Most copies in my area come pretty cheap, so with some luck you can pick this up for a few bucks, And its still suprisingly playable today! Only recently i had allot of fun with a friend who happens to be a classic DOOM enthousiast & an Alien movie fan, he had no idea this even existed so its fair to say he was super excited once i pulled it out, I have the PS1 version though.
I mean you're wrong, but feel free to have that opinion lol. I played this game when it was new and I didn't find the graphics anything better than "good enough." Great sound design for the time, though. Graphics don't make up for bad gameplay, but modern games are absolutely better in just about every aspect, in addition to their graphics. This is just objectively true.
You mentioned the Saturn’s poor conversion of Doom. Saturn Doom was programmed by veteran programmer Jim Bagley. I attended a question and answer session with him presenting. He explained that he had Saturn Doom running brilliantly. My memory is hazy at this point but if I recall Jim was told by John Romero that he had to code the engine a specific way. Jim explained that he wouldn’t be able to get the performance that way but was told it was that or nothing. Totally bonkers.
Two Things: 1) Seeming that this game was released a month after Duke Nukem 3D Episode I, I wonder if 3D Realms were influenced by Alien Trilogy to create Lunar Apocalypse as a shout out; coincidently, both the facehugger and Protozoid Slimer attack design obstructs the field of view. Full version of Duke 3D was not completed until May 1996. 2) I still miss Acclaim Entertainment, Inc.
It’s super fun! I remember getting it as a kiddo and it scared the dookie outta me but it was so fun. My friend came over and had a list of codes one day and I got my sweet revenge on the xeno scum by equippin myself to the teeth and cleaning house baby Rambo-style
@@jonbourgoin182 I bought Street Fighter Alpha 1 and 2, Darkstalkers Revenge and Guardian Heroes around the same time. Never got around to it. Also, it was about 12 years ago, just before the boom in game prices - the thing probably cost me all of five bucks. Hell, it might have come in a lot with a bunch of other games.
This is the only FPS game in my life, where I hated the extremely low FOV (field of vision) so much to the point where I couldn't play it, no matter how much I tried - it was THAT annoying. Usually narrow FOV is not a problem for me, in fact I don't like to play with horizontal FOV's wider than 90 degrees ("Doom standard" as I call it) even in widescreen. But, man, this game had like a 45 degrees horizontal FOV if not even less. It was like looking at the world through a keyhole. I felt it was unacceptable even at the time it came out. I always loved the Aliens franchise and the dark gritty atmosphere in this game was top notch. Hell, I wanted to play it and enjoy it so much, but this FOV aspect f..ked everything up for me, I just couldn't play it. And it was the only game in my life where I actually hated the FOV. I feel I need to stress this point, because I am actually not that choosey about this aspect, but Alien Trilogy's FOV is unreasonably low, I'd call it unplayable tbh. Basically it is so ridiculously narrow, it eclipses all the good stuff in the game.
Looks like more fun than Fallout 76 which I am playing right now. (F76 isn't that bad, but it's just so slow. All the faffing about with inventory brings gameplay to a halt far too often. Like after almost every mission, I have to rearrange stuff in stash, sell or scrap weapons, compare weapons, upgrade, repair weapons and armour. Make food. Oh *expletives*, it just goes on and on.
I hear the Alien Trilogy theme, I subscribe... XD You:"Not a horror game" My 9 year old self: "The most terrifying thing I have ever seen on a screen."
For an early 5th generation game it was very good, especially the soundtrack, but the difficulty and length of the game was a it much, lucky for the infinite life and ammo cheats
I played the PS1 version and loved it. Didn't have the chance to try it on Saturn but it looks like a solid port. After seeing comparisons, I prefer the PS1 version however.
I'm such a huge Sega fan, having unique and special affinities for the Genesis, the Saturn, and the Dreamcast. I've been binging your channel for 2 days now. Kudos
It Sucks, way too hard and the only way to make it fair is to use the unlimited ammo and invincibility password cheats and even then it's still impossible to get past section 1 level 7 because when you try to activate some switches it says Battery Required but you can't find the battery. I spent over an hour on section 1 level 7 and gave up because I could not find a battery to activate a switch, I had found one earlier in the stage but it for some reason was no longer in my inventory so I assume it annoyingly makes it so batteries have limited capacity making the game impossible for the non super skilled game player because even if you don't have to worry about running out of life or ammo you still have to figure out where switches are and what they activate and not waste the battery on them more than necessary because you have to conserve their power for other switches that you need to flip in order to complete the level and if you don't perfectly conserve their power you have to get killed and start the level all over again.
I remember Turok being ripped apart for it's fog. Even today it's the first thing someone will say about that game. But games like Alien Trilogy and plenty of other FPS on PS1/SAT get a pass. Nobody mentions the pop-up or limited draw distance in these games. I wonder why the double standards. Not to mention how Turok features huge outdoor areas and fully 3D enemies, so it would be impossible for it having unlimited draw distance on the N64. But what;s Alien's excuse for this kind of pop-up?
It's precisely because Turok was outdoors that the fog became more of a sticking point. You expect something like Alien to be dark and foreboding so most people probably didn't think anything of it. Alien Resurrection is still probably the best looking shooter on the PS1.
Yeah but technically, rendering big, outdoor areas is far more demanding for the console, compared to indoor corridors. So maybe thematically it made more sense for Turok to not have fog and Alien Trilogy to have limited view, but technically it was the opposite. So i think it was unfair for Turok to be criticized so heavily for it. Besides, there wasn't a single fully 3D FPS game (that also had 3D enemies and models) with outdoor areas that didn't have some kind of pop-up. Ok maybe Quake 1 but the 3D models in Turok were far superior and way ahead anything at the time.
This and Alien Resurrection for a long were the best alien games out there, it took until Alien Isolation to come out till we had a truly well made alien game all the others in between were mid at best or just right awful cough Alien Colonel Marines Cough
what do you mean "despite who made it" bro, probe handled all the mortal kombat ports, made the extreme g series, die hard trilogy, alien 3... they were more than capable of doing a simple fps like this
When you vs the queens you can use a pulse rifle with max ammo and it does enough damage consistently to push the queen back over and over and she never reaches you and you kill her before you run out of ammo.
*Another fun fact: depending on what enemy deals you the final blow, you see different death animations of Riplay, giving you a reason to let every enemy kill you at least once!*
...How does this 3D engine work? It looks sector/portal based like Idtech 2 or BUILD. But I see some polyobjects in the scene ala Dark Forces/Chasm: The Rift, and some GZDoom style 3D floors. What's going on under the hood?
I picked up that Scooby Doo game and was pleasantly suprised, it's basically a SCUMM style game crammed onto a catridge. Kinda short and a bit slow but if you wanted to feel like you were taking part in an episode of the show it does that well enough.
I wonder if anyone made an enhanced version of this into a .wad to run in something like GZDOOM? Dual analogue aiming, improved resolution and lighting, improved enemy animations and frame rates, etc? That would be awesome!!
I remember renting this game for the PS1 at our local VHS rental/Tanning store and I stayed up almost all night playing it, but i remember being pretty scared of this as a kid lol. Great memories!
I got the big box copy of this for my PS1 I still need to play it. I wanted this game so bad as a kid. Not sure why I never tried to rent it. I remember getting Alien 3 for SEGA, maybe that had me hesitant. I was such a fan of the films as a kid in the 90s. I remember really wanting to play AvP on whatever a Jaguar was when I saw it in my Gamepro magazine.
Sega was great no doubt about it. I would’ve loved for us to get phantasy star collection and suikoden over here in the states instead of them just staying in Japan for the Saturn but still the Saturn is an all time great console
In my experience the PS1 version is definitely the better version, for me the Saturn port had a lot fps drops/slowdown and also a weird issue were the pistol didn't always make a sound when firing. I was playing the PAL version at 60hz so it's possible that could have been causing issues, but regardless I sold the Saturn version and bought the PS1 version instead.
"Short controlled bursts!" - Cpl D. Hicks. I really enjoyed Alien Trilogy. Plus I played it on the Saturn first so don't really care if the PS1 (and PC) versions are a little more polished, the Saturn version is still enjoyable.
So good to see Alien Trilogy get more and more respect. Currently playing the Saturn port and it's a blast. Nice graphics, sound design and silky smooth performance.
Finished the game on the Saturn about a month ago (I replay it every once in a while) and it still holds up really well. Fantastic, underrated FPS on the system. Nails the Alien atmosphere really well in my opinion.
I loved this game back in the day! Saw it on my friend's SEGA Saturn, and had to get it. Even back then as kids, he would remark how the game looked a little better on my PlayStation. Specifically, he felt the flames looked better. Great times.
I got the ps 1 edition not long ago and I ended up rage quitting because of the darkness. I tried everything to make it brighter on my t.v. and nothing worked. I don't understand how people can say they like the ps 1 version.
Had the ps1 version and it was amazing at the time. What stood out to me was the atmosphere and sound design.
You HAD to play that game in the dark. If I remember correctly it was in surround sound too.
Alien resurrection on the ps1 had a message pop up saying “this game is best played in the dark” and I remember it been freaky as a kid. Good game otherwise
@@Detective_L resurrection was very jumpy. Loved that more as the aliens would creep up walls and jump you during strobe lights and come out of Shadows.
@@Detective_L yes that game pushed the ps1 to absolute limit
I remember picking up Alien Trilogy and Guardian Heroes from Babbage's when they were closing down for $9.99 each.
Still have the price stickers on them to prove it!
pics or lie
@@pickleeggs3340 shaddup
I got it disc only (and winning post :) at a disorganized retro store in the bay area about 10 years ago. Got about 12 disc only Saturn games for $50 out of a binder since almost nobody cared about Saturn back then.
Guardian Heroes is so good!
Played the playstation version I enjoyed it
Accurate to the movie! “Remember, short controlled bursts” 😂
Yep, I was looking for this.
Got to admit that's a level of capturing the movie I have to find truly impressive. Not 100% sure it was intentional but still.
I think it was the same with the PC AvP one aswell🤔
Stay Frosty
That really goes for a lot of more modern FPS (post-Doom games, though in Doom the chain-gun made a decent semi-auto sniper - if you did a two round burst both shots were always accurate), you only want to "spray and pray" when a single/several fast targets are in your face and you have no other choice
You forgot the biggest thing - *The Soundtrack*
I got tired of playing the game, because it was difficult. I just put this disc inside my CD player and enjoyed the tracks.
I forgot about that! I used to play my brother's PS1 games in my 1987 Camaro for the sweet sounds. Those were the times.
@@BeB02090 - UMK 3 and Trilogy soundtracks
@@BeB02090 awesome
I once heard one track of the Soundtrack in a promo for one of their travel documentaries on the german TV Station VOX, back in 2000 / 2002 or so. It was really weird. But it shows how popular Alien Trilogy was over here.
the soundtrack is fuckin GODLIKE
I have been very sick lately and these videos get me through the day. I watch them over and over 😃
I'm sorry you are ill. I hope you get better soon. Sega Lord X is awesome. What an awesome channel.
Get well dude! Until then this is indeed a great channel to watch.
Get well soon!
I LOVED this game. It was in my Saturn more than 70% of the time. I'm a huge Alien fan and this game didn't disappoint
This was one of my favorite games back in the day
I love this game. The soundtrack alone is worthy of admission, making everything super creepy. Good job bringing up the awesome sound design, SEGA Lord X. Great review too.
I had an amazing time playing this on Saturn.
Going into the last level.
No health.
No ammo.
Dropping into the tunnels when my motion detector suddenly starts going wild.
I beat it but it was a hell of a last level.
The PS1 lighting just makes the game too dark IMO, the Saturn version looks a lot better.
That said, even nowadays this game is terrifying! Like legitimately I had to turn the console off during that final mission.
Honestly, its second only to Alien Isolation in terms of feeling like the source material.
Yeah i too prefer the Saturn version over the PS1 version. Also the Saturn Version doesn't suffer from the typical Playstation bug which is the inability to show straight lines but instead turning everything into zig zags.
I've played the Playstation version of this game. What a gem. I strongly recommend to anyone to play it. Thanks for the video.👍
Used to watch my Dad play it on my PlayStation - I used to write down the end of level codes for him lol
Big nostalgia
Same
At the time it was one of dopest games out. Felt like you was in the movie 🎥 lol.
I played this game so much on my Saturn. It was the first FPS I ever played. I memorized the whole thing.
I absolutely adore this game. I still own the same copy I bought brand new in my teens, and played through it last year. I was surprised by how well it held up and how much fun it still was.
Damn... Now thats a good game!!! The music was also perfect!
I liked it and was surprised at how well in ran back in the day.
"I promise, mom, the Saturn isn't a waste of money"
@@howiegruwitz3173 It never was, I had both systems and played the Saturn more due to all the arcade ports and 2d fighters. PS1 was good for the big exclusives.
I love Sega game consols!.
Me too. Watashi também
This is a fantastic game!!! I would have loved an upgraded avp Jaguar port to the Saturn...
I remember playing this game and loving it:) Die hard trilogy too
Awesome soundtrack too.. from the composer of Die Hard trilogy.
Also a classic!
Die hard was waaaay better
That airport tune was amazing
There were 4 great FPS games on the Saturn: this game, and the 3 Lobotomy games.
What about the Quake port?
@@JGD185 Lobotomy did the quake port
Doom port with both doom 1 and 2 levels was pretty good too.
@@madpossum24 ahh ok
Hexen was amazing
If ever I wanted to see a 60min runtime... it was now 😔
Frikkin _loved_ this game
I remember renting this game in the 90s, like you said, incredible atmosphere from a game of that era. In an interview (can't remember the source) a Probe directive said that in the past they were having lots of multiple games/ports being developed at once and in this game they learned from their mistakes, shifting all the studio efforts in order to make the best possible experiece for one game
Paid off, everyone I know at the time who had ps had this in their collection. It was also pretty cheap talking £5-10 2nd hand eventually. The platinum release halved the price was £20 in the UK.
I'm actually frankly surprised at the numerous bits on the video where Probe is referred to, quite matter-of-factly as if there was a general consensus about it, as a crappy developer. Honestly, both their original ip games for 8 bit computers, like Trantor and Savage, and also their works based on licences, like Out Run Europa, were widely loved and renowned amongst fans and critics alike. Even their work during the 90s, after their acquisition by Acclaim, was way more hit than miss, with many huge hits, both commercial and critic-wise, - T2, Alien3, Alien Trilogy, Die Hard Trilogy, Extreme G, to name a few - making up for the misses - which could be blamed, more often than not, on poor upper management and rushed development cycles more than a lack of talent.
@@jackmullin9247 Yea exactly, I'm in UK as well!
Whereabouts in UK are you from?
I had this game on PS1 as a teenager, I didn't have a Memory card and I remember having to write down these long ass passwords for each stage, I'm talking like, 20-25 characters per password.
Love this game, will never sell it, got it when it launched.
Probe Entertainment actually did a really good job with Alien Trilogy (along with Die Hard Trilogy) and it still holds up pretty well today. Probe also did solid job with the Alien 3 game.
Yeah I enjoyed all of those. I wish a developer could make a modern single player Aliens experience like Trilogy
Did anyone else experience a glitch that caused all data in your external memory cart to be wiped/corrupted when playing this game? Or was that just an issue with certain PAL versions of the game?
I only know of such glitch when passing fighting Vipers in the Japanese version. (It instantly deleted all saved games in the memory, damn was I pissed seeing all my TA times in Rally and Daytona gone)
I had a saving issue with it too and was unable to beat the game as a result. I wasn't tech-savy yet, so I could never figure out what was going on with that game. However I could never put that game down and it was still my favorite, even managed to get a couple jump scares out of me. Wasn't till I started collecting for it recently that I was able to close that chapter (Action Replay, son!) . But I know exactly what you're talking about, this was on NTSC as well.
Did you have a legit ps memory card? The non oem cards were crap and always corrupted failed. Same with PS2 knock offs.
@@jackmullin9247 I don't think PS memory cards works with a Saturn. 😬
@@jackmullin9247 It was an official Sega memory cart for the Saturn, yes.
I was utterly obsessed with this game for about 5 months from the time it launched. I must have played theough it somewhere in the triple digits, no joke. I wanted nothing but MORE.
This game is fantastic regardless of the platform you play it on. Its a miracle when you consider Acclaim and Probe were involved.
Being a big fan of the Aliens movies, I was so excited about playing this one, and although I liked it in many ways, I preferred Aliens Vs Predator on the Atari Jaguar, simply because of the atmosphere of the game. The soundtrack on Alien trilogy simply takes the tension out of it, as opposed to the Atari game, where you only hear the humming of the power generators throughout the game. I also prefer the Atari version where you can roam freely on the entire base instead of this level to level design. I almost crapped my pants a thousand times while playing AvP on the Jaguar, whereas Alien Trilogy was more like a river cruise, where you don't really feel nervous about what's coming around the corner.
Best game for the Atari jaguar. Atmosphere was incredible. That motion tracker sound was so good.
@@foch3 exactly, the sound from the motion tracker, constant humming from power generator, and and sound of doors opening somewhere, knowing you were about to be attacked sometime very soon.
I only played AVP2 on the PC. Seems like a lot of people forgot about it. It was a pretty good game too.
@@Gatorade69 AVP2 certainly looked brilliant. But nothing before or after has made me sit on the edge of my seat for hours and hours like AVP on the Jaguar.
I love this game! Very few good shooters on the Saturn. It was actually pretty creepy with how sneaky the face huggers were
I recently became a Saturn owner and soon after discovered your channel, and I’ve been binging your videos nonstop since then. It feels like if there’s any game/genre/publisher on the Saturn I’d want to learn more about, Sega Lord X has a video covering the topic.
This was the first FPS I owned on my 486 DX4 100. Special place in my heart..
I loved this game. I dont normally like FPS but I played the hell outta this one.
The reason Doom looked like crap was because the software engineer was forced to make it look as close to PC as possible and use the CPU, not the GPU for rendering.
Well Carmack insisted that Doom ran on CPU power alone. Plus the porting time was VERY short as well. Same with the 3DO version.
@@KRAFTWERK2K6 The 3DO version was a whole other level of incompetence because the guy who bought the rights to make the 3DO version thought he knew how to make games, but had no clue and the programmer brought in had a very short time to make it because 3DO wanted Doom in time for Christmas.
The Saturn port was Carmack's fault and has even said himself he made a mistake. John Romero was on vacation and usually would have been the one to make the decision and would have given the okay to how it was being made for Saturn at that point.
I rented this at launch, and it was sooooo difficult
Same here, I'll admit I used cheat codes to beat it 😅
@@realevostevo It's not that hard. I know because I beat it lol You just have to not waste your ammo and progress carefully.
@@Shyning77 Very carefully. Run through at your peril.
I still come back to the soundtrack for this one, very atmospheric 👍
The Sega Saturn had so much potential, they should have pushed the hardware more......
I owned the Saturn version back in high school and played the living shit out of it. Didn’t play the PS1 version until a few years ago and was surprised how much the lighting improved things. Better atmosphere and the sections where you needed your shoulder lamp to see we’re very tense.
Can't believe I was playing Duke Nukem in 98 when I could have been playing this bad ass game!
I played it a lot on the Saturn back in the 90's. I also played the PS1 and even checked the DOS versions, they are similar enough with one another, even being clunky sometimes, I really enjoy the atmosphere and the overall gameplay, it still gives me chills when a scary alien monster appears silently from nowhere.
Holy shit, these games honestly look really cool. I've always loved the aesthetic of the early 3D graphics era of PC and console games. I think they look just as cool, if not cooler than modern games. I kind of see them as having a different artstyle, like Impressionist or Minimalist or something. They're much more interesting looking than hyper-realistic games.
Most copies in my area come pretty cheap, so with some luck you can pick this up for a few bucks, And its still suprisingly playable today! Only recently i had allot of fun with a friend who happens to be a classic DOOM enthousiast & an Alien movie fan, he had no idea this even existed so its fair to say he was super excited once i pulled it out, I have the PS1 version though.
I mean you're wrong, but feel free to have that opinion lol. I played this game when it was new and I didn't find the graphics anything better than "good enough." Great sound design for the time, though. Graphics don't make up for bad gameplay, but modern games are absolutely better in just about every aspect, in addition to their graphics. This is just objectively true.
You mentioned the Saturn’s poor conversion of Doom. Saturn Doom was programmed by veteran programmer Jim Bagley. I attended a question and answer session with him presenting. He explained that he had Saturn Doom running brilliantly. My memory is hazy at this point but if I recall Jim was told by John Romero that he had to code the engine a specific way. Jim explained that he wouldn’t be able to get the performance that way but was told it was that or nothing. Totally bonkers.
One of the creepiest sounds from Aliens was the beeping of the radar. That always puts me on edge in Alien games.
True 🙂
Two Things:
1) Seeming that this game was released a month after Duke Nukem 3D Episode I, I wonder if 3D Realms were influenced by Alien Trilogy to create Lunar Apocalypse as a shout out; coincidently, both the facehugger and Protozoid Slimer attack design obstructs the field of view. Full version of Duke 3D was not completed until May 1996.
2) I still miss Acclaim Entertainment, Inc.
"Use short bursts". Isn't that the way Hicks told Ripley to fire the pulse rifle?
Still have my Saturn and games including this and Powerslave. Will keep them forever.
You are close to 100k awesome. Well deserved.
I bought a Saturn copy of this about 12 years ago. Still have it, but I have not tried it yet. Seeing this, I really should get around to it.
It’s super fun! I remember getting it as a kiddo and it scared the dookie outta me but it was so fun. My friend came over and had a list of codes one day and I got my sweet revenge on the xeno scum by equippin myself to the teeth and cleaning house baby Rambo-style
Why would you buy a game and never play it?
@@jonbourgoin182 I bought Street Fighter Alpha 1 and 2, Darkstalkers Revenge and Guardian Heroes around the same time. Never got around to it.
Also, it was about 12 years ago, just before the boom in game prices - the thing probably cost me all of five bucks. Hell, it might have come in a lot with a bunch of other games.
@@jonbourgoin182 Play it. 😎
@@LorenHelgeson SF Alpha is dope! 👍
This is the only FPS game in my life, where I hated the extremely low FOV (field of vision) so much to the point where I couldn't play it, no matter how much I tried - it was THAT annoying. Usually narrow FOV is not a problem for me, in fact I don't like to play with horizontal FOV's wider than 90 degrees ("Doom standard" as I call it) even in widescreen. But, man, this game had like a 45 degrees horizontal FOV if not even less. It was like looking at the world through a keyhole. I felt it was unacceptable even at the time it came out. I always loved the Aliens franchise and the dark gritty atmosphere in this game was top notch. Hell, I wanted to play it and enjoy it so much, but this FOV aspect f..ked everything up for me, I just couldn't play it. And it was the only game in my life where I actually hated the FOV. I feel I need to stress this point, because I am actually not that choosey about this aspect, but Alien Trilogy's FOV is unreasonably low, I'd call it unplayable tbh. Basically it is so ridiculously narrow, it eclipses all the good stuff in the game.
Had it on PSX. Loved it 👍
Looks like more fun than Fallout 76 which I am playing right now. (F76 isn't that bad, but it's just so slow. All the faffing about with inventory brings gameplay to a halt far too often. Like after almost every mission, I have to rearrange stuff in stash, sell or scrap weapons, compare weapons, upgrade, repair weapons and armour. Make food. Oh *expletives*, it just goes on and on.
Thanks for the video SLX. Keep up the great work!!
That's a lot of grenades. I wish I could hold 96 objects
I hear the Alien Trilogy theme, I subscribe... XD
You:"Not a horror game"
My 9 year old self: "The most terrifying thing I have ever seen on a screen."
For an early 5th generation game it was very good, especially the soundtrack, but the difficulty and length of the game was a it much, lucky for the infinite life and ammo cheats
I played the PS1 version and loved it. Didn't have the chance to try it on Saturn but it looks like a solid port. After seeing comparisons, I prefer the PS1 version however.
I remember putting the PlayStation disc in my cars CD player because.. reasons.. Anyway it played some stuff and music tracks!
I'm such a huge Sega fan, having unique and special affinities for the Genesis, the Saturn, and the Dreamcast. I've been binging your channel for 2 days now. Kudos
It Sucks, way too hard and the only way to make it fair is to use the unlimited ammo and invincibility password cheats and even then it's still impossible to get past section 1 level 7 because when you try to activate some switches it says Battery Required but you can't find the battery. I spent over an hour on section 1 level 7 and gave up because I could not find a battery to activate a switch, I had found one earlier in the stage but it for some reason was no longer in my inventory so I assume it annoyingly makes it so batteries have limited capacity making the game impossible for the non super skilled game player because even if you don't have to worry about running out of life or ammo you still have to figure out where switches are and what they activate and not waste the battery on them more than necessary because you have to conserve their power for other switches that you need to flip in order to complete the level and if you don't perfectly conserve their power you have to get killed and start the level all over again.
I remember Turok being ripped apart for it's fog. Even today it's the first thing someone will say about that game. But games like Alien Trilogy and plenty of other FPS on PS1/SAT get a pass. Nobody mentions the pop-up or limited draw distance in these games. I wonder why the double standards. Not to mention how Turok features huge outdoor areas and fully 3D enemies, so it would be impossible for it having unlimited draw distance on the N64. But what;s Alien's excuse for this kind of pop-up?
It's precisely because Turok was outdoors that the fog became more of a sticking point. You expect something like Alien to be dark and foreboding so most people probably didn't think anything of it. Alien Resurrection is still probably the best looking shooter on the PS1.
Yeah but technically, rendering big, outdoor areas is far more demanding for the console, compared to indoor corridors. So maybe thematically it made more sense for Turok to not have fog and Alien Trilogy to have limited view, but technically it was the opposite. So i think it was unfair for Turok to be criticized so heavily for it. Besides, there wasn't a single fully 3D FPS game (that also had 3D enemies and models) with outdoor areas that didn't have some kind of pop-up. Ok maybe Quake 1 but the 3D models in Turok were far superior and way ahead anything at the time.
This and Alien Resurrection for a long were the best alien games out there, it took until Alien Isolation to come out till we had a truly well made alien game all the others in between were mid at best or just right awful cough Alien Colonel Marines Cough
what do you mean "despite who made it"
bro, probe handled all the mortal kombat ports, made the extreme g series, die hard trilogy, alien 3... they were more than capable of doing a simple fps like this
Oh how I miss the days these games were simple yet sooo fun 😔
When you vs the queens you can use a pulse rifle with max ammo and it does enough damage consistently to push the queen back over and over and she never reaches you and you kill her before you run out of ammo.
*Another fun fact: depending on what enemy deals you the final blow, you see different death animations of Riplay, giving you a reason to let every enemy kill you at least once!*
Nice didn't know that!
love this game it is a must have for the saturn in my opinion
A company named Probe developing an Alien game...
Sounds about right, 😆
...How does this 3D engine work? It looks sector/portal based like Idtech 2 or BUILD. But I see some polyobjects in the scene ala Dark Forces/Chasm: The Rift, and some GZDoom style 3D floors. What's going on under the hood?
I got pink acid boots on. I never would have beaten the game without that code. Still play it on my pspgo.
I picked up that Scooby Doo game and was pleasantly suprised, it's basically a SCUMM style game crammed onto a catridge. Kinda short and a bit slow but if you wanted to feel like you were taking part in an episode of the show it does that well enough.
I enjoyed all the alien arcade games. I was happy to see that we also got a nice home console FPS alien game as well
Probe did good with 1 2 punch. Alien 3 on snes then alien trilogy on PlayStation
I wonder if anyone made an enhanced version of this into a .wad to run in something like GZDOOM? Dual analogue aiming, improved resolution and lighting, improved enemy animations and frame rates, etc? That would be awesome!!
Goodness. I played this on PC, and I want to say there was some sort hack/command line edit magic that could be done.
I still go back to this one from time to time. The atmosphere and sound are still gripping as hell despite the dated graphics.
I was just playing this the other day. I think it's only limited by the control scheme. Other than that it's pretty fun.
That main theme song playing throughout the game reminds me of Snatcher so much.
Completed this on PS1 just over a year ago and it is still a very good game. Aged nicely.
This reminds me of Playing Alien versus Predator on the Jaguar back in the day. Amazing game for the time
I remember renting this game for the PS1 at our local VHS rental/Tanning store and I stayed up almost all night playing it, but i remember being pretty scared of this as a kid lol. Great memories!
I got the big box copy of this for my PS1 I still need to play it. I wanted this game so bad as a kid. Not sure why I never tried to rent it. I remember getting Alien 3 for SEGA, maybe that had me hesitant. I was such a fan of the films as a kid in the 90s. I remember really wanting to play AvP on whatever a Jaguar was when I saw it in my Gamepro magazine.
Sega was great no doubt about it. I would’ve loved for us to get phantasy star collection and suikoden over here in the states instead of them just staying in Japan for the Saturn but still the Saturn is an all time great console
This is an underated fps. It would be nice to see an alien games classics compilation.
In my experience the PS1 version is definitely the better version, for me the Saturn port had a lot fps drops/slowdown and also a weird issue were the pistol didn't always make a sound when firing. I was playing the PAL version at 60hz so it's possible that could have been causing issues, but regardless I sold the Saturn version and bought the PS1 version instead.
Also, I think the darker graphics on PS1 fit the mood better, as well as helping (a bit) to hide the short draw distance.
Ooh I had this one! Fond memories
"Short controlled bursts!"
- Cpl D. Hicks.
I really enjoyed Alien Trilogy. Plus I played it on the Saturn first so don't really care if the PS1 (and PC) versions are a little more polished, the Saturn version is still enjoyable.
Great game and one of the best OST of the fifth generation
God that in-game music you have in the background at the start is so nostalgic
Yep, actually forgot how good it was until I heard it again in this video. Good times...
I still play it from time to time
Good review but one question: Why does some of footage have English text and some not? Why would you capture footage from two different regions?
I own both versions and have capture video from both.
I played this on saturn and was fcking awesome. Hey but i'm pretty sure you can't kill humans in first level. WTF?
I got this with my PS1.... And I thought it was AMAZING!
So good to see Alien Trilogy get more and more respect. Currently playing the Saturn port and it's a blast. Nice graphics, sound design and silky smooth performance.
@Fernando Dantas that was mega drive/genesis lol
Finished the game on the Saturn about a month ago (I replay it every once in a while) and it still holds up really well. Fantastic, underrated FPS on the system. Nails the Alien atmosphere really well in my opinion.
Sega.. Just Do It... Right...?
The gun sounds are messy as hell.
Considering it used only one CPU it is an impressive port!
I thought doom 2’s TC was better. Not bad though. TC was free though.
This, Exhumed and Hexen were the only FPS I ever enjoyed. Super atmosphere and easy gameplay. Love it.
I loved this game back in the day! Saw it on my friend's SEGA Saturn, and had to get it. Even back then as kids, he would remark how the game looked a little better on my PlayStation. Specifically, he felt the flames looked better. Great times.
Glad I still have my copy of this gem on SS!
I remember seeing this game all over the place back in the day and had no idea it was even decent... Nice video...
I got the ps 1 edition not long ago and I ended up rage quitting because of the darkness. I tried everything to make it brighter on my t.v. and nothing worked. I don't understand how people can say they like the ps 1 version.
That and the terrible Xeno A. I that had them running around like sheep, made it a crushing disappointment
The work on the atmosphere in this game (sound effects and soundtrack) was really amazing : creepy and stressful as it should.