Game over man Review: Alien 3 for the Gameboy

While Alien 3 was not the most loved or successful of the Alien franchise it did spawn a number of decent games. Two of which I own. One is for the SNES ,the other is for the Gameboy. Ill be taking a look at the latter in this review.
So game play is top down isometric shooter with  rpg elements. The story is very close to the movies with the two major deviations being you have weapons and your not fighting just one lone runner but a hive of Xeno's, this trend would in all the Alien 3 games. Its makes sense that developers feared that one Alien and no weapons would make a dull game ( Prove em wrong Alien Isolation)
So you play as Ripley who has to find away defeat the xenomorphs and get off Fury 161 before Weyland-Yuntai arrive.( Ripley survives in this game). Players are rated xeno's killed, Prisoners saved, try's taken and other overall objectives.
Xeno types include Facehuggers which to scale of Ripley and the other humans in the game must be the size of pitbulls.The Drone/Runners are a mid difficult foe not taken much hits to kill but still very fast. The Warrior types are huge and move more like the gorilla Alien, they take a number of hits to kill. Lastly you'v the Queen who cant be killed via weapons but must be taken out with the piston like the Runner was in the movie.

Weapons include a cattle prod like the one from Alien, a pretty wicked pistol which does decent damage, a Flamethrower which on the menu screen looks like its from Alien also....thing about the flamethrower is it only can destroy eggs and nothing else! Lastly the Smartgun which on the menu looks like the fucking harpoon gun from Alien.

The game dance's the line from being really fun to be really fucking annoying. A lot of the time you'll be doing scavenger missions looking for toolkits and blowtorch's to open doors and fix things. At one stage Dillon sent me to a rubbish tip to find the torch and I spent about 10 minutes clicking this tip from different sides till the game decided to go "yeah now its there!" Also I suffered from the same problem I had in the Resident  Evil games....limited storage. For example I came buy Bishops head way before I needed to so my spaces ended up being all filled so I had to drop it until a later part where I had to back track all the way back to the same place to pick it up. The fan puzzle's were cool but if you fucked them up chance's are they would kill you more then the Xeno's.

Despite these niggles Alien3 for the Gameboy is still a fun and worthy product of the franchise. If you'v an old Gameboy or Indeed Gameboy advance and can get your hands on it pick it up.
Also huge thanks to Charlene Bennett for giving me such a wicked x mans gift. Your can check out her blog here. http://blondepurplebruise.blogspot.ie/