ALIEN Games | Johnny Grafx 

Great video Johnny! That was a fantastic journey through the alien game ages! Your editing and pacing was excellent for covering it all. Thanks for your hard work!

If you haven't checked it out, Aliens: Dark Descent is a blast. It's a top-down real time strategy with stealth and rogue-like elements.

Isolation was incredible. For what it is, it's an extremely competent and polished game devs made to be remembered. It's a true shame that Aliens: CM wasn't made with the same level of care.

Damn. No Aliens arcade.

Dude, u r so awesome. How do you not already have 1 million subs!? Please keep up the good work and marketing ur stuff.

No AvP2?? Unforgivable! (Though forgivable because it is unpurchaseable on on ANY platform...) Really unfortunate because it's an amazing, and in my opinion, the best Alien entry there is. AvP: Extinction for og xbox is also really damn cool and an absolutely unique entry. Awesome vid

I played the PS3 version of Aliens: Colonial Marines in October and had fun with it. My two favorite weapon types in games with guns are Shotguns and full-auto Rifles, Submachine Guns, or Machine Pistols and this is among the very few first person shooters who start the Player character with both types of weapon. I played Fireteam Elite a few months after it came out mostly solo. I played primarily as a Technician with some combination of a Flamethrower, a Machine Pistol, a Shotgun, and a Submachine Gun.

Stoked for this!

1987, Aliens side stroller, arcade machine, by Konami I think. So many quarters gone 😂

Interestingly, Isolation is the only game in that list that comes close to the movie it's trying to emulate. But then there had actually been beat-em-ups, at least for the AvP crossover. :-D Isolation does this by not merely taking from Amnesia, but heavily from Immersive Sims such as System Shock / Prey and their persistent space stations as well. Making for interesting moment to moment improvisation as well as exploration which sadly a follow-up project had never opportunity to go even deeper on. Say in a game that sees you in the shoes of Newt during the infestation of Hadley's Hope.... sigh. Whilst I also played quite a bit of even Alien Trilogy (a fairly outdated Doom clone even back in the day, when it came out for PC anyways) -- all the games based on Aliens get the movie completely wrong as well. They can be fun, but... Last time I checked this still wasn't a movie about Marines kicking Alien ass (or even a single marine kicking Alien ass) -- it was a movie about marines constantly getting their asses kicked. Always pushed. Always on the backfoot. Even when Ripley eventually goes fully on Rambolina in the final stage of the movie, it is suggested in the Director's Cut more explicitly that the hive had already been pretty diminished. The games mostly play out more like had Michael Bay done Aliens: Like a 12 years old's take on "marines vs aliens in space". I'm glad that Aliens Dark Descent actually replicates some of the movie, including the crisis management so prominent during all of the movie's plotline. Which I enjoy currently playing pretty much. My first two runs of the opening mission had my squad being overrun, and that was on medium difficulty. Mind you, once you get the hang of it, it's fine. But this experience of having your back pushed back against the wall is gonna last. :-) Electric Dreams' official game from 1987ish actually tries to do some of the same, but it's obviously heavily outdated. Its concept is still rife for a modern take on it: You're controlling a squad of six in a "persistent" one level colony, no loading screens or anything, first person perspective as seen from the movie's iconic helmet cameras. Just hundreds of rooms, which the Aliens take over in real-time as the game progresses. Doors can even be locked. The game shipped with a map. Your goal is to ideally get as many of those marines into the queen's chamber in the center of the colony, and kill the queen. Weapons are finite and can be reloaded in the colony's weapon chamber. All of your marines will at some point encounter aliens wherever they move. Meanwhile, if the aliens manage to infestate the colony's generator rooms, the power and lights cut out....

8:35 fuck yeah, steez, stylin on em

Man how cool would it be if Alien Trilogy got a remaster or even remake.

I hope someday they make AVP arcade and Aliens arcade available for gamers at home!

Amazing Job my friend!!!

I was pumped for AVP 3 but it severely disappointed me. One of the few times I ignored reviews and was wrong to do so. I don't think you mentioned they just reused ALL the levels for all the campaigns. Unforgivable game design out-done by AVP 2

I've played a few of these and it seems really hard to do a good Alien game. Going to try Issolation next.

The alien 3 megadrive version has a no time limit hack, which makes this game SO MUCH fairer.

If you fix the letter "E" in the coding in colonial marines making the xenos disperse and attack properly, it is a great game.

You forgot Aliens infestation on DS..why don't you put her in charge?

A superb video, JG! Absolutely fantastic. I agree with everything you especially about AVP for Jaguar. I owned that game twice complete. The first copy I bought new when it was on store shelves. It was coveted because of its low numbers in circulation and novelty. But after that, if was boring as $hit. I obtained a second copy somehow and flipped it quickly afterward. I look forward to more Fireteam, especially since I can play it on an ample console (my new PS5) rather than a console that will freeze multiple times then practically burst into flames (my former Xbox Series X). Of course, Fireteam wasn't the only game my X did that on, but I digress. Even though not a paper Alien game, the arcade game, Xenophobe, was modeled after the Alien IP, although in a fun & campy way. It's especially fun to play on the arcade machine or MAME. The Atari Lynx version was pretty decent. The 2600 version was abysmal and the 7800's was alright. I believe there's an NES version too, but I am hazy on whether it was good or not or if it even existed without looking it up! HA! A stellar video. I know it will get many, many views as it should. You labor paid off!

I don’t know why, but I was hoping you’d cover some of the non-Alien games that were clones of the IP: Silent Debuggers and Alien Syndrome, for instance.

As Dark Descent rekindled my fandom, I'd picked up Fireteam Elite as well. Whilst purely technically, I can't fault the game, it's still both borderlining on movie parody and is a rather simplistic shooting gallery even for its subgenre. They didn't even put much effort in, simply ripped similar games and reskinned zombies et all for aliens. If you would exchange those aliens for armed Trump supporters, Nazis or Evil Chicken from the dark side of moon, all storming your display en mindless masse, it wouldn't change a thing. So many missed opportunities to at least adapt the format some to what made the movie/s tick. Such as things escalating through the course of a mission, rather than you being bombarded every fifteen feet from the get-go. More elaborate ways and less one-way ticket corridor levels to set up turrets, weld doors shut and plan for an incoming wave/invasion.. and some of that would be actually pretty low hanging fruit rather than anything elaborate, e.g. how CoOp stuff like GTFO rips the motion tracker from aliens and turns that into something CoOp with tension here and there. Even a couple iconic setpieces rather than the repetitive "push a button for another wave to appear" trick, hell ANYTHING. But then I came off Dark Descent, which is the most Aliens faithful since forever, the first in decades that's actually even tried. Man, this is a good one. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8v5jTvF86V0.html

You had me until Alien Isolation. THAT is a Great horror game !

U missed out alien vs predator the capcom beat em up, utterly fantastic

you miss a lot of awesome aliens games... AVP for arcade made by Capcom.. Aliens Infestation for nintendo DS Alien vs Predator 2 for PC by Monolith :(

when they put Christmas hats or pumpkins in an non-pertinent context they make me want to vomit!

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They made Aliens Fireteam because Angry Joe was crying about it. I still think Colonial Marines were a better game, because Fireteam is just a Joe's game with his friends that wanted to make just a big amount of cash on the angry videos, but they took it seriously... Wow...