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Alien Shooter [Download]

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This game is very simple and fun.

PRO: The first few levels are the best becuase the weapons available at the time are different from each other and are useful in different situations. However, later on the earlier weapons become almost useless because of their low damage and/or firerate. Earlier levels really take advantage of the level design to create interesting encounters.

CON: The level design in later levels gets annoying and uninspired. The last two levels just throws a lot of enemies at you at once. Your only strategy in those levels seems to be kill faster than they can respawn or rush in and hope you don't die.

Overall, for $4.99 this is a great game. Great fun, but that goes down at later levels.

The game itself isn't bad. As a parent, I appreciate that you can turn on the green slime instead of the red blood. Small difference but its not so horrific on the screen for my smaller kids.

The game itself is fun. I like how you can buy different equipment and weapons to make the game more unique. However after level 3 you can almost just give up. Its too hard. WAVE after WAVE eventually makes it too difficult. Eventually you will hit the aliens who throw acid at you, and even after the initial hit, you continue to lose points. Sometimes it is impossible to move away because aliens are surrounding you.

So I like the game, but it gets so hard I lost interest in playing it. So did my boys. So its worth a few bucks, but don't spend too much on it.

This is a fun game, non stop action. The problem solving aspects are pretty simple (find stuff, blow stuff up) and the strategy revolves around weapon and character upgrades. The good news, each level will challenge you to solve the problem up to level 7 or 8. Once you get the "best" stuff, the last two levels are not a challenge at all. They have a TON of monsters to shoot up, but by that time you have the uber-gun and a fully developed character. Not very challenging on what should be the hardest levels.

I have seen a couple of opinions that the game is too hard. Not true, but you CAN get to a point in the game where bad purchase choices make finishing a level very very difficult.

Overall, a great "time killer" game, you can pick up where you left off after a month without a hiccup. For the price, a keeper.

It is fun. The story is more of a tacked on last minute addition to give some semblance of an excuse for shooting aliens.

Becomes a bit too easy at the end (once you get the final weapon and enough ammo for it, which is almost consistently level 9 of 10 for me).

Overall, it is a good isometric shooter if you just want to pick up and play a shooter game for the sake of shooting things.

NOTE: To remove the jitters/stuttering when it plays (if you are running it under Windows 7), run it as an admin under Windows XP Service Pack 2 compatibility mode. Service Pack 2, mind you, NOT Service Pack 3.

I got the second game first and liked it so much I tried this one. While this is a lot of fun (and a lot harder), the second one is superior in a lot of ways (e.g. more weapons, better story, and longer). Of course this one is a third the price of Alien Shooter II - Vengeance, but if you hunt around you can find Alien Shooter 2 - Reloaded, which is basically the same game with a few tweaks and a couple of extra levels you might find a deal; I got my copy for $5.

Anyway, as the title suggests you spend the majority of your time shooting aliens. There's not much story here, a lab has been overrun and you have to clean it out. You get to use a handgun (unlimited ammo weak uzi), shotgun, grenade launcher, mini-guns, rocket launcher, freeze thrower, laser weapon, a flame thrower, and an energy mini-gun thing. Money can be used to purchase the weapons upgrades, armor, or skill enhancing implants. It's scarce though and mostly you can find everything in the next level you go to anyway, especially if you find the secret areas (hint shoot every wall) which have weapons, cash, and/or goodies.

Where I was just running through killing things in Reloaded, here I had to keep drawing guys out slowly and killing them. It's not hard, their AI is pretty weak and they'll get stuck on things a lot. I do give the developers credit, looks like they redid almost all the enemies from this game because they're different. If you ever played the old Contra games, you more or less have an idea what type of game this is. It's isometric 3D with limited ammo (except the uzi) which is fine, but the walls are sometimes narrow and not transparent so you can start getting hit by a guy you can't see sometimes. Add to that the enemies that spit goo on the ground that stays for quite a while and you can quickly get painted into a corner and be dead before you know what hit you.

The only thing I don't like is that there are some later levels here where the enemy keeps teleporting in and you have to run past the teleporters to get the explosives to blow them up. The experience was just plain frustrating and cheap. It's pretty much a way to guarantee you have to spend money on armor, medkits or something, or else it's next to if not impossible to complete. Fortunately, it's only one level that's REALLY bad. Tip: Make good use of the freeze ray when running past the teleporters. The final level gets really cheap with Serious Sam style enemy warping in behind you ambushes. I don't mind a challenge, but I in my opinion the design was just laziness in creating a challenge on the developer's part.

For $5, this is a pretty fun game that will run on even older desktops and most likely old laptops as well. Definitely worth the money.

I would recommend this game to anyone who like shooting games. the game is basically shooting aliens to get to other levels. this game is challenging, but tons of fun. If you like this game, I would also recommend Zombie Shooter.

If you love shoot~em up games - this is the one for you. I have this one ... and I have played it over many time for years since it first came out.

The newer Alien shooters by far cannot compare, or touch the first one with its big colorful graphics and the aliens coming right at you from every where. *Try to survive if you can!* The aliens in the newer games (alien shooter with a vengence and Alien shooter2), its a shame how they messed the next generation of Alien shooter up making the charactor, and the aliens smaller and weak in graphics.

"In my opinion, what they need to do is go back and redo Alien shooter starting with-Alien shooter2 and leave the game the way it was suppose to be at first, (in its own Awesomeness)... aside from a lot of other games out there not worth playing or paying for; including the other alien shooters2 and (ASV ~ alien shooter vengence).

BUT! What would be a nice com back is, if the makers of Alien shooter could bring Alien shooter to XBOX 360 like the first orginal game. Then perhaps, add on more levels the way the game first started with its grapics and coloring. The newer looks sucks, the color looks like a cartoon. Sad sad they messed it up with the newer alien shooter games.

SHAME ON YOU makers of Alien shooter!~SHAKING FINGER AT YOU!

With that said, if they come back with the original game and add more to it, with the xbox 360, " I'm bought and sold." Meaning, I'll be buying it.

Lis

Alien Shooter [Game Download]