Alien 3 Longplay (Mega Drive/Genesis) [60 FPS]
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For today's video, I decided to play through the Sega Mega Drive version of Alien 3, a run 'n gun shooter that's based (very) loosely on the third film in the Alien franchise.
Considering that both Alien and it's sequel were such massive hits, Alien 3 always felt like something of a backward step. With almost none of the suspense of the first film and lacking the adrenaline-packed action of the second, David Fincher's follow-up seemed like a wearisome drama by comparison.
Following Ellen Ripley's escape from the doomed colony on LV-426 and battle with the Alien queen, she enters cryo-stasis aboard the marine transport Sulaco for the long journey home. The Sulaco's emergency systems detect a fire on board, jettisoning the escape pod containing Ripley into space, only for it to crash-land on Fiorina "Fury" 161 - a penal colony that also plays home to a large foundry.
The game is based in and around the foundry, requiring Ripley to secure and rescue a group of prisoners in each of the various levels before the time limit expires. Once all of the prisoners have been rescued, the level's exit door opens and Ripley must find it in order to escape to the next level. Occasionally, the game mixes things up by featuring levels where there are no prisoners to rescue and lots more aliens to kill, or to defeat a boss, but the main bulk of the levels are of the search and rescue variety.
Each level features a series of rooms and chambers, interconnected by corridors and air shafts and actually finding all of the prisoners in a level is no small undertaking, particularly in later levels where the design becomes more meandering and more maze-like. Extra ammunition and power-ups can be found in secret rooms hidden throughout each level, but finding them is difficult and time pressures usually force you to prioritise finding prisoners, rather than hunting for loot.
Given the problems with the source material on which it's based, it's not too surprising to find that the developers took some liberties in order to create a title that gamers would actually want to play. The most significant difference between the game and film is that Ripley is given access to an extensive arsenal of weapons, including the iconic M41A pulse rifle; a stark contrast to the movie script where, ironically, Ripley and the prisoners have little else but harsh language to combat the alien menace.
You're certainly going to need this arsenal since each of the game's levels is infested with Xenomorphs, compared to the solitary alien that appears in the film. The shooting is surprisingly satisfying, with the Xenos exploding in a acid-spraying collection of body parts, accompanied by an agonising scream.
However, the one problem I have with the game is the sheer speed it runs at, coupled with the limited time you get to react to an enemy when it appears. You really do have a little more than a split second to aim and get some lead in the air before the alien reaches you and takes a chunk of health away, knocking you over in the process. I appreciate that fighting the aliens is meant to be filled with suspense, but I think it can be particularly unforgiving at times and results in unwanted frustration.
The game boasts some impressive visuals and animation for the time and features some extremely smooth scrolling. The main Ripley sprite is pretty faithful to her depiction in the film and runs around in realistic fashion. Being an Alien game, one can't ignore H.R. Geiger's iconic designs, which are recreated here in all their chitinous, extendo-mandible repulsiveness - a special mention must go to the great pre-level graphic showing a Xenomorph in all it's horrific glory, complete with viscous droop running down it's jaws!
As for audio, Matt Furniss is on top form with a range of thumping audio tracks and excellent sound effects. I particularly enjoyed the background music that accompanies the Hive levels, featuring a slower-paced, more ambient affair with catchy synth lead. In fact, my only disappointment was the lack of effects for the motion tracker display when active, but I guess we can't have everything.
If the game didn't require super-human reflexes then Alien 3 might have qualified as one of the top-tier shooters for the platform. As it stands, it 's still a very good game, although the occasional frustrations I experienced meant I'm reluctant to describe it as a great one. In any case, Alien 3 is still a satisfyingly good shoot 'em up experience that comes much more highly recommended than the film it's based on!
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Alien 3 Longplay (Mega Drive/Genesis) [60 FPS]: Help Ripley battle the Xenomorph hordes in this top shooter based on the decidedly average film!
Read the video description for my review!
I didn't know your could kill the 1st alien from stage 14 by using the door. Best run ever, probably.
i remember play this game in easy mode
the music in world 4 is amazing
This game scared me as a child. Never was able to beat it.
Same, I was so scared as an 8/9 year old.
Me too
See I wasn't the only one. The hand reaching up when you died. Made it scary too lol.
X2
Bueno yo también me asuste un poco al jugar el juego por primera vez y que no sabías que hacer, pero admitamos que fue un buen juego
Music in stage 2 is so good!! The sound of the pulse rifle and the aliens exploding is so satisfying.
Yes , is very nice , for me the best in the game.
Same. Best track of all.
yeah that song is amazing.. and very 80s even tho this game came out in the 90s
I also love the footstep sound when Ripley lands on the metal platform. It's just a small detail, but it's so nice...
@@Robahuetambém gosto amigão
An underrated gem. Sure a lot of it is trial and error along with memorization but I find it very fun
This game was a megadrive classic, music was 👏🏼
The only thing that ever really bothered me was the game speed. I felt like if they had just slowed the whole thing down a touch, like maybe 10-15%, it would have been a much more tense and enjoyable game. But other than that, it was still good fun
@@CopiousDoinksLLC the super nintendo versions blows this out of the water
It really doesn't @@torquetheprisoner
This game is so gorgeous imo. Im in my 40s. My best friend in middle school had a Genesis and this game and I loved ALIENS so much. This game is still minty fresh in my old head memories.
It's a pity it can't get a re-release
Such good memories . . . . hence my avatar
I remember sitting cross-legged on the floor for hours, & the satisfaction of finishing a level - then the fear/excitement of entering into a new level, with this great soundtrack & exciting movie inspired imagery.
Dated looking now, but very cutting-edge back then
As someone with both mild-OCD, and a very good memory, the repetition, and ability to remember certain actions & sequences, suited me well, and complimented my gaming ability
At the time, i had a job, and easily worked 60-70+ hours a week - then played this at home for hours too . . . WoW!
My then girlfriend Jane, was ever so tolerant
i so miss everything 90s I go through fazes where i just want to live i the past, am going to get a decent CRT VCR megadrive maybe a saturn and a mini disc, cant get a game gear (i would end up in tears, when i was just an innocent boy, never been though anything, great times!)
@@johanpeiper5908The 90s were infinitely better than we have it now
Jesus Christ, the kind of memory you need to traverse these stages is insane. It was a magnificent watch, thanks!
Everything about this game is great, the fluid animation, graphics, sound effects and music are all brilliant!
Grandes recuerdos cuando mi padre alquilaba este y otros juegos en los 90
My first nightmares, and then came resident evil 3....
STARS...
Exactly the same..
A good little glitch just for the fun of it, I don't see anyone else doing, is that when you are exiting any stage if you jump as you go through the exit, Ripley will walk on air. Not useful but cool to see.
Yes! I remember doing that! haha....
@@Robahue Me too!
Les bugs d'époque 😂
Yo lo hacia!
i played this game in 1993-1994 with 2 years, and take 10 years (12 years old) to beat this game without my father's help in 4th level, now he's dead since 1 month ago, and i come here to remember that glorious days♥
sorry for your loss.
U should play it again in honor to him.
@@Jennifahh yeah i will start again in sega emulator. maybe i can try in normal or hard
@@Klosthwould you buy a CRT and buy the console and game. Am thinking the old skool CRT experience would be worth it
Gotta love Ripley’s running animation, it’s pretty hilarious.
I found it funny when Ripley was standing still (i.e. no control input), after one or two seconds she changed stance, her boobs were visible under her tanktop.
One of my all time favorite games that i still havnt beat haha its awesome seeing a full playthrough ill be watching this to relax lol, thanks for showing this awesome title
Glad you enjoyed it :)
I never went beyond stage 5 haha
E eu nunca sai da primeira parte mais via os meus irmãos jogando era legal vê esses quartinhos parecia um labirinto e a música q tocava tudo mi lembra o tempo muito legal
So many memories, this game was HARD
What a game! What a soundtrack!
Thats right bro!
The music is the best part of the game. The game itself is pretty scary, but fun.
The OST is so god damn good. Way, way better than the SNES version. A lot of the time the soundtracks seem to favor SNES more, but this one was so very clearly genesis dominance.
SNES is a overrated pile of crap, Sega always had the better versions of all the games that were on both systems. People only make that horsecrap claim about the SNES being better is because it had better graphical quality than the Genesis for SOME GAMES but not all of them. Sega still killed it with the music though, literately every game for the Geneses had the best songs. Streets Of rage literately ate Final Fight alive with it's GOD awful garbage repetitive soundtrack and weak sound effects. Just look at how bad the music was in Contra 3 compared to how great it was in Hardcorps on the Genesis, lol the SNES didn't stand a chance, everytime someone says it had the better quality music than the Genesis I straight up laugh at them.
The music was better on the SNES as sampled real music off the film but I still love the music on this version.
@@raijinthemaster88 it's not a matter of the system. Both are great. It's a matter of the developers and what they do.
@@Robahue BOTH games, and even the NES version were done by the same developer. The Super NES version has tons of suspense and a LOT more scarier, and of course, you GOTTA love that Game Over screen along with the "Game Over, man!" line from Aliens. The NES version is more or less patterned from the Genesis version, and the music in that one kicks ass!!
@@raijinthemaster88the genesis is a pile of 🦔💩 compared to the snes it sounds like an old speak and spell in comparison lol
Nostalgia 😆
I was so scared of this game as a Kid. So scared.
Шедевр игровой индустрии тех лет
Истинный страх от "Кат-сцен", высокая сложность, красивая графика, и офигенная музыка что по сей день прослушивается мною.
it's hilarious how all these games bearing the name 'Alien 3' are actually heavily inspired by the second movie lol
Yup, especially referring to the Game Over screen in the Super NES version with the "Game Over man" catchphrase.
Boy, can wait talk about Matt Furniss and his music for this game? He really knows how to get best out of the Genesis! That bass and those drums!
Almost every genesis game furniss worked on had a stellar soundtrack. He really understood what the gens sound card could do and do well. The bass and drums in his games kick so much ass
@@TheMovieHowze One fun fact: The Genesis has 10 sound channels (6 FM + 4 PSG). It just so happens that Furniss made no usage of the PSG channels. While he preferred not to, the sound driver he used while at Krysalis didn't support it.
No need for talking. His tracks are self-explanatory competence.
this game sums up my childhood.
Con este juego me topé por primera vez con la saga de Alien 👏👍
Still have my trusted little mega drive. A good friend to have. Managed to beat this once.Might give it a go again.
I must say, Ripley's sprites are pretty well animated! Very fluid and life-like!
Intro song was scariest shit that time. Even these days, listening to it its like a nightmare somehow.
I played this game as a kid years before I could watch the movie, then I found hillarious that Ripley NEVER uses a gun or other weapon in the movie
4:55 this scared me as a kid lol
I can't believe this game was 4Mbit. It really got the most out of the hardware with such limited memory used.
I loved this game and still own it today!
If I Get This Game For My Mini Sega Would I Enjoy Playing It?
@@vinceniederman well it is fun, so I'd say YES.
@@dak2327 Nice and The First Alien Movie is a Horror Classic!
This game terrified me as a kid
i always wondered what those things hanging on chains were at 12:50 with blood spilling out. like a giant bird's head or something. there's a deleted scene in the movie of an alien bursting out of the stomach of an ox and thats what they are. they're hanging upside down and you can see the head and the two horns at the bottom right.
Can’t wait to try this game again on an emulator someday. Used to scare the crap out of me when I was younger
Good luck to you on your adventure😎👍👍
As a lifelong Alien fan this was one of my absolute favourite games back in the day
So many long and boring Sundays with me and my Mega Drive
It's a pity it can't get a re-release
Played this a lot in Sega GENESIS during the old sweet 1990s... and it's truly amazing how you play it skillfully, without taking a single damage the whole video!
Curious detail: the stages are divided into 3 distinct "categories": Mission (save prisoners + kill aliens); Mayhem (no prisoners, only aliens) and Rescue (no aliens, only prisoners)... stages 05 and 08 are the only stages respectively in Mayhem and Rescue categories while all other ones are Mission category.
not sure why you capitalised Genesis.
@@RWL2012, i wanted to do it inversely, but missed it.
The soundtrack is 🔥
the most game i played when i was kid,, action shoot and jump scare combined the best in it's time. but still interesting to play again now
I would never have thought that the Genesis port was actually a clone of the Amiga version (or vice versa) albeit smoother, which is also unexpected as the Amiga was considered the superior hardware at the time. The assets seem near-identical and only the SFX are lower-grade (but still completely decent). Good find ! thanks for the video !
Recuerdo que este era uno de mis primeros juegos y otros que jugué de niño pero no en la consola sino en una computadora que tenía mi tío, en eso tiempos fue que ví y use una compu por primera vez pero solo para jugar
X2, mi tío tenia en su computadora un emulador de sega y me dejaba jugar este y otros juegos más, que buenos tiempos.
Just got it today. Thanks for the video. Now I know its 🔥
Wow she lives in this version. Also this seems more based on aliens than alien
Alien 3 u mean .
Ben Smith no I mean aliens. The guns et all
Yeah good point. The levels appear to be based on Alien 3 but the weapons, proximity scanner and overall action aspect comes from Aliens.
@@GarwoodNick It's funny because I remember seeing Alien 3 in the cinemas as a kid and laughing to myself later on about how they basically had no choice but to abandon the plot entirely to make this game and the one on SNES. Alien 3 was _not_ an action movie, it was a ponderous study on human frailty set against the backdrop of a horror/drama; so making a platformer on a 16 bit console out of it was a ... puzzling decision, to say the least.
But this was the time when Hollywood was first starting to notice they had a video game market so they were really just throwing shit against the wall to see what sticks with this one.
@@CopiousDoinksLLC yeah it was just a marketing tie-in. If the game had actually been based on alien 3, it would have involved running from a single alien, trying not to get raped, then jumping into molten lead. Pretty lame lol.
I completed this game back in the 90's, took me a whole winter of dark nights to master untill i could play it start to finish with no lives lost, Very satisfying!! Brilliant game! I did video the whole thing but gave the video to a friend who was struggling with it, Doh!!
You gotta love stage 4 meat hanging above the abyss in the background
I love how both the SNES and Genesis games follow the same format but are very different - the SNES one is more like a survival horror and the Genesis one is more of an arcade run and gun... if you had both consoles back in the day you were getting 2 awesome games from the same film.
El miedo que me daba este juego de chico... lo deje en el nivel 2 jajajaj
If only this game wasn't time based, it could've been a masterpiece.
I remember when this game came out. It was one of the games my Dad played a lot back when I was a kid unfortunately it was also the last game he ever played
Blowing up these aliens in that game is so satisfying.
Pretty good graphics for a 1992 game.
I was 8 years old in 1992. What I wouldn't give to have those days back. The Mega Drive and the upcoming PlayStation, school and my friends. The best days are truly far behind me. Shit
@@SamuelBlack84 damn 30 years ago
@@saulgoodmansfingerr8527 A lifetime
Here Ripley reminds me Shwarzenegger from Commandos mostly.
Funny how the the aliens scream AFTER they've already been blasted in half.
Good night everyone. Time to go to sleep listening to this.
You have done a superb gameplay video here. Mind if I
link it in the Gaming Leaderboards discord I created with some friends?
I never noticed how this soundtrack has quite the Trent Reznor vibe about it
2:19 starts here
Acclaim were one of the best game Devs back then
I always remember seeing the guide to this game in SEGA Power magazine, god I miss those gaming days. I preferred the SNES version to the many different missions and no timer lol but this was a right challenge I could never finish it
Love it! ❤️. Me and my two brothers use to set for Hours and play this. My brother still has the system and games. A fun time was had by all!
I rented this a few times. Liked the mechanics and soundtrack.
God, that music is great
To me, this is the real Alien 3, not the movie, where Ripley and Newt are alive.
Este juego era de mis favoritos, me daba miedo y creo que eso lo hacía mas emocionante. 😅
I remember how lost i was. I couldnt find the exit!!
Cuántos recuerdos❤❤❤. Me daba un miedo de chica😅, igual logré pasarlo todo y en ese entonces no existian las memorias para guardar, si perdias una partida, empezabas a jugar desde el inicio 😢😅😅. Era imposible no ser vicio de los vídeos juegos después de eso 😅😅😅. Hoy tengo 29 años y no me arrepiento de nada ✌️😅😅❤❤❤
the music in world 4 is amazing
They did such a great job with the graphics, music, it is a shame the the ending is so shitty... One image and a phrase, fuck...
The best of sega!!! 🖒🖒🖒
The bgm is so great
30:40 So that's where he is... Thanks.
3 Times The Suspense!
3 Times The Danger!
3 Times The Terror!
3 Times For Ripley!
ALIEN 3!
For Your Sega Genesis!
From Acclaim And LJN!
Excellent !!! love watching this video ;)))))
Never got to play this on Genesis but this looks more like Aliens than Alien 3 lol. Of course I dig the pulse rifle but there was no weapons whatsoever in 3 and only one alien in the entire movie. Still looks like a cool game though.
Ah yes. How can you forget that part in Alien 3 when Ripley runs around armed to the teeth killing aliens left and right and saving all the inmates. Awesome game version of an awesome movie.
Never seen anyone climb a ladder so quickly
Where did she get the gun? They had no weapons in the film.
The slaughterhouse music is so satisfying
The tunnels in this game confused the hell out of me back then
The music in this game…
They need to remaster this
Yeees , because Alien isolation is crap 🙁😂😂
Damn what a memory
Super jeux vidéo a l'époque je l'ai aussi 🤣🤣.
Refait récemment en hard
I loved this game!🤩🤗
It is funny surprise in stage 13 almost at the end of Rescue mission [46:03]
cool job thumbs up
que buenos sustos con este juego jajaja
this game's drawbacks imo are the time limit and the lack of a story
That was probably the only Alien game I've ever played personally, back in the day, on an emulator
The repetative factor bored me so I guess its time to finish it by TH-cam
True ASMR.
Probably the best port.
The prisoners, why do they look like they're moving strangely as they're seated, like they're doing hand impressions when they have no audience?
They are supposedly infected by chest busters. If you fail to free them in the given time, you see all of them dying from the aliens they bear inside.
@@Icenri How do you free a person infected with inner aliens?
@@Religious_man Hahaha, the game didn't get into that. I don't think even in the movies they can.
@@Icenri lol
I could never get past that purple alien cave level.....
Yeah that level was very challenging. When I was a kid I got to the last level with the two guardians and ran out of time losing the game. Annoying af
@@Josh-fp2qn yeah.... Now at least we can use save state on emulators to try again and again
No jodan, recién me doy cuenta que las puertas se podían abrir manualmente, y yo siempre quedándome sin balas para abrirlas.
I understand the NES and SNES version changing the ending, but I'm sure they could've had a movie accurate ending on Genesis. Then again, I suppose they didn't want to change the different versions too much. Good game regardless, at least on Genesis.
Music is awesome
Tenia un miedo cuando lo jugaba, pero igual lo pase 😎😎lo se todo de memoria, hasta el dia de hoy, imposible olvidar 😅😅😂
Can anyone confirm for me if the HUD on this Genesis version is done entirely with sprites?
A lot harder since your pulse rifle only has 99 rounds and cannot carry extra magazines like the snes port. The motion tracker has a much bigger view than the snes version, but a fat load of good it does when it's battery powered and turns off on you at the worse possible time
At least it looks like the enemies are pre-placed in the level instead of constantly respawning off-screen
Que buenos temaikens tiene este juego y mierda que era dificil
Yo solo llegaba hasta la zona de la arnicería donde estan colgados y de ahi jamás lo terminaba xD
@@mikeness8696 Yo máximo llegué al jefe en la zona morada, esa que parecian nidos de ellos. Y en mi mente pensaba que era la final por como era todo el escenario y ahora me vengo a enterar que habia otra zona entera jjajajaj Tengo que pasarmelo algun dia de la forma legal, sin los save states ( que ni con estos lo he pasado todavia) jajaj
@@kevinlopez227 No pues avanzabas más que yo, los juegos de antes estaban más difíciles que los actuales
@@mikeness8696 Seeee como antes tenian que lucrar con los cartuchos y nada mas, los desarrolladores de juegos hacian los juegos mas dificiles aproposito. Para que el jugador pierda varias veces y el juego te dure, asi daba la sensación en el comprador que su inversión no se desperdiciaba en una tarde
@@kevinlopez227 Si, si fueran fáciles te los pasas en 20 minutos
Alien 3 is a nice game.
I played the NES and SNES versions of the game and beat them. The Genesis version is somewhat like the NES version.