Meh
This game is pretty good I also remember playing it at the arcade when I was younger.
Big fan of the aggressive colors and motion sensor mechanics but otherwise it's a fairly slow run-n-gun with occasional dives into shoot-em-up and beat-em-up gameplay. It's charming, I'd play it again if I saw the cabinet, mostly due to it being a title that's easy to learn and improve at, but otherwise a little dull.
Fun Konami Arcade game, I like the weird movie differences too like Ripley's color scheme. AVP is the superior Alien Arcade experience but this is also great.
Middling visuals with pretty generic gameplay. Being able to kill Aliens so easily really kills the sense of danger and horror.
Lamest death scream of all videogames.
played with C_F via fightcade
Pretty mediocre, really. We fed so many credits that I don't think I ever really grasped what was taking place, similar to Konami's TMNT game the previous year. I did feel that the controls were quite limited, and the sfx were a little grating (especially on death, which happened a lot). Looks quite nice for the time, though.
Either way, as a whole Aliens doesn't deliver much and gets beaten out hardcore by some of Konami's other run and guns. It's quite hard not to notice with the masterful Sunset Riders releasing only a year after, but in addition the already existing Contra ports for home consoles were much more enjoyable as well.
I read somewhere that this was slated for a Genesis release in 1991, but it failed to materialize. Probably would have felt redundant anyway with Alien Storm releasing for the console that same year. I would definitely replay Alien Storm over this.
Pretty mediocre, really. We fed so many credits that I don't think I ever really grasped what was taking place, similar to Konami's TMNT game the previous year. I did feel that the controls were quite limited, and the sfx were a little grating (especially on death, which happened a lot). Looks quite nice for the time, though.
Either way, as a whole Aliens doesn't deliver much and gets beaten out hardcore by some of Konami's other run and guns. It's quite hard not to notice with the masterful Sunset Riders releasing only a year after, but in addition the already existing Contra ports for home consoles were much more enjoyable as well.
I read somewhere that this was slated for a Genesis release in 1991, but it failed to materialize. Probably would have felt redundant anyway with Alien Storm releasing for the console that same year. I would definitely replay Alien Storm over this.
Shockingly dull. Like playing Contra at quarter speed.