Customer Reviews

Alien 3

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This game is VERY difficult, not only because you get one life, and have to fight thousands of aliens, but each of the five levels you must go through takes an hour to three hours to complete. It is an intensely tedious game, but there are some nice animations. You play Lt. Ripley and must complete six tasks for each level to complete it. These tasks can be to save prisoners from the alien captures, fry some alien eggs, seal doors and fix piping or any other amount of tasks. There are only three weapons (flamethrower, machine gun and grenade launcher), so not much gameplay there. Bottom line is there are 10 types of aliens and 5000 of them each.

Alien 3 on the SNES Still has the same weapons from Aliens and has a lot of Aliens in the game but it uses the intro from Alien 3 nicely done 16 bit version of it & the ending stays true to the movie. You use a computer terminal to find stuff just like Aliens but levels look like Aliens and Alien 3 so it's a combination of both movies which they are my two favorite in the series so I can't complian. But I like the Genesis version better it's a lot more fast paced & not as repetitive as the SNES version is on the GEN you just blow away Aliens and save the prisoners and the music is better. On SNES you do save prisoners but you got to weld doors shut, fix pipes, & fix fuse boxes you only get one life and it's a hard game. I think the Genesis version is better but it's really up to the player which version they like the best. There both good but you need a Game Genie for this game.

As far a super nintento games go, this one is awesome. You charge headfirst into a massive, winding complex of tunnels and corridors that are inhabitied by about a million aliens. You must complete missions that take you to the bowels of the facility. It is wisely accompanied by renditions of James Horner's excellent score for ALIENS. It creates a truly unique gaming experience

I had this game for the SNES back in the day, and I remember it being really outstanding. One of those games that makes me want to find and buy it again to play.
The animations are really superb, the music is top notch, and the weapons are really good. I remember it being kind of redundant having to run around the different areas, but it's all part of the game and doesn't take away from the value of the game.
I want to emphasize that the graphics and animations are really really good for it's time. Kind of entrancing and brings you into the game. Also, it is a side scroller game.
You get a machine gun, grenade launcher, and flame thrower with different colors of flame (red, blue, and green) and they all are different in their powerfullness.

i very well enjoyed this game it is alot funner than Alien trilogy for ps1. In this game you actually play the character and the graphics are awesome. This game was loades of fun and action packed.

Let's be clear: Alien 3 for the Super Nintendo is not the same Alien 3 available for the Sega Genesis, or for any other platform. This is a unique game with some of the system's most amazing graphic effects, ranging from swirling mist to pouring rain. The sounds for the aliens are perfect, the control is tight, Ripley's character animation is wonderful, and the music is the most driving and memorable stuff you will find anywhere on the SNES. Alien 3 is a definition of perfection.

It may look like a side-scrolling action game, but this is anything but. Each stage has you checking in with the Fiorina 161 computers and reading about your objectives. You may need to weld a door shut, replace a missing part for a necessarily machine, rescue some prisoners, repair fuse boxes, or destroy a nest of alien eggs. Each stage offers you around six objectives, and you can complete them in any order. You must journey around the stage's map to get to where you need to be, racing through locations ripped straight out of the films and recreated as beautiful, multi-scrolling backgrounds. Once you complete all the objectives and return to the computer terminal for the last time, you're done... until the next level.

With a game this huge, you'll be happy to have a simple password system to back you up every time you complete a stage. You'll start memorizing where every medpack and weapons store is and rationing more and more desperately as the stages get mroe intense. Ripley has a pulse rifle, grenade launcher and flamethrower at her disposal, and a motion tracker aids her progress to boot. All of these weapons are used with the touch of a button; there is no need to cycle through your inventory.

Alien fans - do not hesitate, this is the best game incarnation of the franchise ever created. SNES owners - again, do not hestitate, this is one of the best games for the system regardless of its movie license.