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/

Xenomorph caste 3: Runner

While not a much loved Alien movie Alien3 for me is still pretty awesome and one of the elements which made it so was the introduction of the Runner xenomorph (The term Dog Alien was dropped buy many fans with the revelation of the alternate cut). Alien3 showed us that the xeno would take on elements of what ever creature it facehugged. In Alien3 a Dog/Ox depending on which cut you watched.
As a result the beast chose a quadrupedal stance over two legs as its legs were longer then a human spawned xeno. It also lack dorsal horns and seemed to prefer to kill the convicts on sight( although this could have been it protecting the unborn queen Ripley was carrying) One could also speculate that because of a more basic host it do's not have the smarts to harvest the convicts for the maturing queen.

The beast could reach powerful levels of speed equal to a jungle cat be it walking on any surface. The "Dragon" as Golic called it has the highest kill count of one single Alien in any of the movies.

The creature would turn up in a number of games and be one of the more unique foes with its speed and agility.

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wicked gift.

So as I write this I've just got back from the pub for a night out with my mate John and Dave it was awesome but the cherry on top was John gave me a late but wicked christmas gift. A SuperNes copy of Alien3 and while Im at it I should thank another friend of mine Charlene for giving me her old copy of Alien3 for the gameboy. So thanks a mill guys.

Why Alien3 is a good movie.

Okay I'm more then lightly going to get no level of stick for this but I like Alien3. For most people it's Alien and Aliens and thats it...which I'm cool with but I gotta tell you Alien3 get's way too much shit then it deserves. The release date was giving before a script was green lit. The sets we're being built and  before preproduction finished Vincent Ward left when his treatment was canned. David Fincher the fucking director walked out half way through the shoot. Yet after all that savaged production there remained a decent movie not fantastic flick but a fairly solid movie. Now their parts people bitch about such as the death of Newt and Hicks((oops not no more)) and having just one xeno.  But I think there some cool ideas, the music and the look of the film has this gothic tone to it, There's some wicked casting choices all way round..The likes of Charles S. Dutton , Charles Dance, Brian Glover are perfect in their roles.
The Runner Alien was wicked and added somthing new to the Xenomorph in that what ever its host attributes are it takes on. So it came from a Dog/Ox(uncut edition) it prefers a quadrupedal stance and is more savage in it's attacks on the prisoners.

For all its flaws and it does have a few Alien3 is worth a look and while people say its not a pretty movie what I'd say to them is Yeahe I fucking know because its an Alien movie...used future remember. It captures the universe of the xeno and Weylend Yutani perfectly. So before you pass judgement watch the flick...the uncut if you got it.