ALIEN™ | A Gaming Retrospective 

Actually the Alien Resurrection: The Game is WORTH talking about as without it, modern console games wouldn't have the now-standard controls of moving with the left analog stick while looking with the right stick, something for which the game was CRITICISED for on launch. Particularly IGN who, now infamously in hind-sight, said that the 'weird' control scheme would NEVER take off. XD

Fun Fact: if you have a headset on while playing isolation, the alien CAN hear you and WILL track you by the sound you make IRL

I remember being in high school when Alien Isolation was announced, and I told a kid: "I'm cautiously optimistic. It's trying to be a horror game, which NONE of the Alien games (That I knew of at the time) have been able to pull it off. And after Colonial Marines lied straight to our faces... I'm doubtful." I've never been more glad to be wrong. Even after the game released, I was still cautious. Colonial Marines and Mass Effect Andromeda were two experiences that really burned by, told me never to trust game developers and their marketing. Thankfully, I saw Fallout 76 for what it really was, and never hopped on that train. BUT, games like Isolation give me hope, hope that a team of developers can set out to make something interesting, and then actually accomplish it. Cause there's a real lack of that in the industry.

There was Alien Infestation on the DS. A solid metroidvania style game with permadeath for your squad mates and a really cool incubation mechanic. If a squad member was downed you could save them but they may have been face hugged. With that in mind the character becomes a walking timer with the chest burster being the alarm. A really fun game with awesome art from an Xmen comics artist. It's a shame that it never hit mainstream appeal.

Yeah, Alien Isolation is one of my all time favorite games I've ever played. It's soooo good. I'm impatiently waiting for a sequel. There aren't any games out there that's close to this in gameplay.

No AVP2? Really? That's the best AVP game, and it has a pretty good alien campaign.

Alien Resurrection is actually a pretty dope game. Is atmospheric and hard af, a pseudo survival horror. Shame you skip it :( Also, where is AVP2? Pretty much one of the best Alien games out there.

Everyone misses the Super Nintendo version of Alien 3. It's actually passable and interesting. Has a mission structure, objectives and such.

"Now, that was a close one with that facehugger! He completed the level!" Death animation. "Nevermind..."

"There are some places in Dundee I wouldn't go alone" I've been to Dundee once, I wouldn't go anywhere in that place in company, never mind alone.

17:20 "Hello there!" Xeno: "General Kenobi!"

alien vs predator: extinction, its an rts, its quite fun.

I stayed and watched this because a Scott's man said *"I GOT OTHER SHET TO DO!!!"*

Colonial Marines' Nintendo DS counterpart "Aliens: Infestation" is actually pretty darned good.

The Alien games are hit and miss. So many misses, yet I really like some of these janky messes.

Alien Trilogy is the most nostalgic and most played for me

Aliens versus Predator 2, the sequel to AVP "classic" was one of my favorite games growing up. It wasn't amazing by any means, but the predator had such good tools, and the Marine weapons were fun

"8-14 hours, depending on how much time you spend in lockers.". Funny as hell! I still haven't left the locker. I'm 6396 hours in and counting lol!

I didn't hear you mention the real-time strategy one Alien Vs Predator: Extinction It's not half bad imo

Very nice .. yes Alien: Isolation was easily the best Alien game I’ve ever played too .. and like you it also took me 2-3, hours just to get through the beginning. It’s so paralyzing with fear. My first play through took 30 hours. And although it was MUCH harder .. I actually had the best time playing it on Nightmare mode. Felt like a summer vacation on a tropical beach when I played it on easy mode. Other than that I like the original AvP (not good edition) .. as the original featured much better in game video of the marine talking to you on screen with an actual American actor .. no idea why they felt the need to replace him with a Brit doing a shitty impression of an American.

Alien: Isolation is no joke, you gotta be on your P's and Q"s in that game.

Dude AVP SNES was awesome! You did not see enough. Every boss is worth getting to just for their awesome designs!

Great video! A:I is one of the most tense games I've ever played, and I include Ducktales on the NES in that.

IIRC, you can skip the awful ship sequence in C64 Aliens by pressing Run/Stop+Restore and get to the actually fun parts. That's what we did because that ship thing was not fun. At all.

Alien: Isolation is still my favourite game of this console generation, just a brilliant game. Proud to say I finished it on it's hardest difficulty, the way you're ment to play it. The part you end up in the hive, Jesus Christ... talk about nearly shitting myself.

I really LOVE your enthusiasm and appreciation for the masterpiece that is Alien Isolation. You managed to explain really well why it is so damn good in a nutshell.. I know it's been 7 years since this video, but I had to leave a comment and apart from the laughs, I really appreciated the entire thing. Grazie!!

16:37 That music, such nostalgia.

Its insane that you dont mention AVP2, not only was the single player campaign amazing for its time, the online multiplayer was fucking awesome as well. It crushed the one that came after it. Ya blew it.

Your videos are fantastic. Particularly loved this one.

Only one I didn't see was the Aliens arcade game from the 80's. It was friggin awesome and felt a lot like Cameron's movie

I just discovered your channel and have to say: I love it! I'm a fellow Scot (Living in Australia) - you are fucking hilarious as well as informative. Keep up the good work!

Alien trilogy is a kind of nostalgia game that I've finished (or almost) about 4 times. Atmosphere carries it alone, since the gameplay gets repetitive pretty fast. And yeh... all enemies are invulnerable while in daze animation from getting shot.

Wow, this got suddenly popular years later. I guess not as much "wHeN xEnOvErSe" as then.

An underrated and appreciated channel, your content is entertaining and amusing. Hope you continue to grow!

What i absolutely adore about Isolation: - the sets - the music, sounds - the atmosphere - the graphics - the alien behavior - the survivor horror element - the dlcs What i absolutely hate about Isolation: - lack of characterisation, i did not care about anyone - too long playtime - gameplay is basically the same all along: find keycard and hide meanwhile - a shot gun cant penetrate a xeno? im ok with the pistol...but a shotgun?!

Since a lot (a. l o t.) of people keep asking about ALIEN: Resurrection and AVP2, I hadn't played Resurrection prior to the time this video came out, and to be honest I assumed (wrongly) that it was a very similar game to the previous ALIEN: Trilogy, but simply for the new movie for the time. After playing it for the first time back in 2018 or so I kind of wished I had acquired it sooner because the game is pretty good. Technically impressive for a title on the PS1 and innovative in its dual analog control scheme. Honestly, ish purty good. As for AVP2, as well as "why don't you play the Predator campaigns" of the AVP games I did show: this wasn't intended to focus too much on the "AVP" license which honestly kind of drowns out a lot of the solo-ALIEN games. My interest here was on the ALIEN side of things, not Predator. Video's an hour long already, I had to be selective on which games I covered and which of those were merely passing mentions and more in depth playthroughs. That's my format, or at least the format of these earlier Retrospectives. TL:DR, 1:43

You missed Aliens vs Predator 2 from Sierra. Easily the best game in the series. Ashamed you forgot about it

Aliens Infestation on the DS was a pretty good side scroller.

You missed the sequel to the 1999 AVP game. That one's alien campaign begins with you eating your way out of someone's chest bite by sickening bite and sliding around as a chestburster looking for a cat to eat. It was really cool!

Alien Isolation is an absolute masterpiece. Hands down the best horror game, best AI in games (the alien obviously, not the rest of the AI lol), and some of the best atmosphere in games. It also holds up super well to this day and even looks gorgeous on Nintendo switch Also it's scary unlike most horror games

I love you dude. Criminally underrated YTer.

Gonna be honest, I keep coming back to this video just for the **CONFIDENT** bit. I mean the whole video's solid, but there's just something about the C O N F I D E N T s that punches my funny button.

Alien resurrection for the ps1 is the bestia of the bunch.

Great alien games analysis.........hands down the best multiple Alien game review session I've seen! I'm currently streaming Alien: Isolation right now and it's a masterpiece......captures the tone and gritty atmosphere of the movies so well.

Idk If anyone commented on it but kudos for the subtle background music for isolation after the alien attack having the tempo beat of a panicked heart, very subtle, but pleasantly nerve racking for a nerve racking game.

I laughed for a solid 5 minutes at the Spaceballs bit. And the fact you even muted the music when it cut to the guy in the other room is simply brilliant.

When you finished alien colonial marines I knew what game you were hyping up and it made me so happy. Alien Isolation is my favorite game, I enjoyed it so much I can't put into words how much I like it.

Kind of sad you didn’t even mention AvP on the jaguar, as at the time, that was the best game based off of Aliens. The lack of an in game soundtrack gave the game a better atmosphere than some of the more newer games, and the feeling of being trapped on a station with the xenos was palpable.

Yo that Aliens vs. Pinball table is seriously fun.

Discovered ur channel today. Love ur alien retrospective. U missed some absolute classics and the excellent arcade games but all in all was a fun ride and absolutely hilarious. Subscribed x

You had me at the jurassic park game audio 😸

I'm actually sad that the Alien 3 Sega Genesis game wasn't mentioned. It was such a big part of my childhood and while it's not the strongest game or film, it was still pretty fun!

You're so funny. I laughed the entire way through this xD

I remember playing that C64 Alien game. It was surprisingly scary and amazingly difficult. There was a mode in which *any* crew member could be the android; it wasn't automatically Ash. It also randomized who died to the facehugger before it starts. I once had it RNG me up a scenario where Dallas was the facehugger casualty and Ripley was the android.

I want the guys who did Alien Isolation to get together with the Resident evil team and remake the Dino Crisis games. This AI in the dinos would be EPIC!

45:40 You're welcome!

great stuff as always

8 after its release, Alien Isolation modded for VR is just glorious...

Loving these series overviews. Definitely earned a sub 👌

Thank you for a fantastically entertaining video :)

absolutely fantastic, I loved every single minute of this video. Going to see the Jurassic park one now too. Awesome thanks!!

Hey man great videos I’ve been binge watching them well earned sub 🤘

Leaving out AvP2 is just heresy. Best Alien game ever.

Just discovered this video and your channel....I made it about 2 minutes before subbing. Well done lad!

About time for a new proper vid

Great video mate, thank you!

Alien Isolation is hands down the best alien game ever made

I watched this and the Turok one so far. You got a really good series here. You're pretty thorough too. If you got some help making these, I think you could break out.

Consider me subscribed! And your coverage of Alien Isolation here has encouraged me to play it over on my own channel now. Thanks! Oh, and Alien Trilogy is so good if you enjoy it for what it is!

Alien Infestation. Metroidvania with aliens and good bosses.

well done sir, good work

Great video!

AvP2 was the best out of all the alien games by far. I remember literally living on gamespy playing multiplayer forever... Ah that game brings back so much nostalgia...

This video is a masterpiece ❤️

Alien Isolation is a masterpiece. Easily one of the greatest horror video games of all time.

The NES port of Alien 3 you played is fairly lame, but the original release on megadrive/genesis the year before is a stone cold classic.

Where's Aliens versus Predator 2?

Man I really enjoy your contents and love ur accent!

16:21 the Atari Jaguar AVP game was my first experience with both the Alien and Predator franchises. Hell, the cover art even had me thinking that the white spot on the xenomorph’s head were what xenos had for eyes

I would love an addendum video that looks at some of the games that have come out since Alien Isolation, like Blackout, Fireteam Elite and Dark Descent whenever that comes out, along with some of the games you passed over or just straight up didn't cover like the Resurrection game or that RTS one. I love coming back to this video every so often. Always put me in the mood to watch the movies and start up another run of Isolation or AVP.

This is great

The Capcom AVP arcade game is pretty good and the Jaguar AVP was interesting for the time

Great editing and narrating. I am literally lol'ing right now. Subscribing now. 👍😂😂🤣💀👻🤜🤛💯✌

IMAGE INTENSIFIER! Literally, the second after I typed that...you found it.

Superb job on the retrospective. I used to be a huge collector of nearly everything Aliens, Predator and Terminator wise, and have a big plastic bin full of games, books, magazines, movies and tons of other related items. One of those is my original Activision box with 5 1/2" floppy disc of the 1986 Apple IIe game that you covered. Totally agree that the beginning dropship ring flight was very annoying, though once past that, the game was quite fun for the time. Like everyone below, you missed the boat by ignoring the "Alien Resurrection" PS2 game, as well as the awesome AvP2 title with "Primal Hunt" expansion. Also, you should have covered the very fun DOOM mods, ALIEN Doom and ALIENS Total Conversion. The later was fantastic. There's also the "Xenophobe" arcade game (which I believe was available later on various other home systems, especially the excellent Atari Lynx Portable Gaming System), the ALIENS and ALIEN 3 arcade games, as well as the fun AvP arcade by Capcom.

AVP 2, from the early 2000’s does the best job of catching the “Aliens” movie feel. Alien: Isolation does the best job of catching the feel of “Alien” movie

I really enjoyed watching this video, and for you to capture all that footage, script, record, edit, etc for an hour long video must have takenan age. As a fellow fan of the Alien movies, particularly the first one, I can really see the passion showing through :) It was a real treat to see someone cover the C64 Alien game. You don't see that often, and I think it's more sim-like turn-based approach was a clever way of generating tension with the limited resolution and audio capabilities of the time. It forced players to try and plan ahead and make decisions, only for the Alien to show up, begin pleasuring itself, and it all goes to shit. Though I understand not spending time covering the various ports of one game, such as Alien 3, (even though the SNES and Mega Drive versions were so significantly different, that alone would be worth noting) a bunch of games were missed out from the history, a few of which were entries into entirely different genres, such as RTS and MetroidVania. This is really for the benefit of other viewers who may not be aware of what else is out there :) The Aliens (1990) arcade game. Lots of fun. Sega's Alien Storm came out the same year and was a similar sort of thing. I don't know which was actually first, but given the relative closeness of their releases, they will have been in development at the same time. How games inspired in whole or in part by Alien started to appear throughout the '80s and on is a subject for a video all of it's own. I can name R-Type, Metroid, Super C, Alien Breed, Doom, Half Life, and Halo just to begin. It's amazing how the movie franchise's influence became so widespread. Anyway... Alien 3: The Gun. Arcade lightgun game. Good for the time and is still pretty fun even though it shows it's age. What about that kak Aliens point and click, text adventure type thing from 1995? It was shit! But at least it wasn't another run and gun platformer or dodgy FPS! You looked at Aliens vs Predator beat em up on the SNES (absolute shite), but not the Capcom arcade one (mental, and so much fun, with an anime Arnie with a big robot arm-thing as a playable character). Alien Resurrection was a surprisingly good fps. Far more entertaining than the film, in my opinion. As others have mentioned, AvP 2. That game was really really good. There's also a lot of love for AvP on the Jaguar, itself a different game to the PC ones. AvP: Extinction was an RTS, another genre covered by the franchise. I thought it was a bit shit but I've met people who liked it. Aliens: Infestation for the DS. If you don't know of this one, you need to hunt it down and play it. It's a MetroidVania style survival/adventure game, where you have a limited number of marines and permadeath, all animated in beautiful pixel art! This is a contender for best adaptation from the source material, as it's finely crafted in every respect. It's unique in style compared to all the other Alien adaptations, and takes something from Metroid which, as you mentioned, was partly inspired by Alien. To quote a different sci-fi franchise, "the circle is now complete". There are also more recent Aliens arcade games in the form of crap lightgun shooters, but nobody cares.

There is NOTHING else in gaming like the first few levels of the Alien campaign in AVP2. The mechanics are a bit old-school (think Jedi Outcast), but it's a mile ahead of the first game when it comes to atmosphere and immersion. Why it hasn't been properly updated is also the biggest WTF in gaming

THAT DBZ ABRIDGED REFERENCE. your amazing

In isolation I think a really cool detail is that when that Doctor dude dies if you turn on your motion tracker you can actual see a second object moving behind the Doctor.

anyone else notice that captain giving the orders from the videoscreen in the red beret on avp has a parachute regiment cap badge!

brilliant vid brought back a load of mems

There was a DS Metroidvania styled Alien game that had character permadeath. Was pretty good from what I can remember of it.

Ok this is great. Subscribed.

Yay im on the stream

AvP Classic is intended to be brutally dark, to force the choice between your night vision and the scanner as the marine, the unlimited flares (though you can only have out about 8 at a time from memory) are your main light source as a result. In multiplayer it was a standard tactic for the Alien and Predator players to kill light sources to make life harder for the best-equipped combatant. The alien suffers no fall damage, in some of the MP maps the drop from the ceiling is over 20 metres for a satisfying headbite (also how the alien heals compared to medkits and healing device for the other species), consequently too the Predator's vision modes are species-specific in how they target. It's probably the first FPS that requires you make the choice on the fly to survive. The original release had a beautifully atmospheric CDDA soundtrack that worked well, the Gold edition weirdly changed the video segments from Americans to Rebellion staff members providing the acting it didn't jibe well with a lot of people at the time. And yes I played this one a lot when I was younger.

I freakin loved AvP Classic... even played some comp matches for a time

WOW! Making it through that far with a pistol! Warrior!

That Jurassic Park Sega Genesis music 😍

I love how the aliens in colonial marines sperg out like housecats with zoomies