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ALIEN RESURRECTION
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ALIEN TRILOGY
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MOVIE REALISM
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You get to do the "kitchen swim"! No basketball in the gym, though (even if there is a barbell).
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Has APCs and a space jockey and cryotubes (Oh my!) . . . but no in-game dropship.
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Space jockeys rule!
ADVANTAGE: TRILOGY
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LEVELS
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A tad drab (due mainly to having a single setting for 95% of the movie), but all that ladder-climbing, duct-crawling, and swimming keeps things interesting!
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The boneship levels are especially good, but you could get dizzy from the number of times you traverse the circular Pilot's Chambers.
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Super-cool underwater sections.
ADVANTAGE: RESURRECTION
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GRAPHICS
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As good as it gets on Sony's® little gray box. Major kudos all the way around!
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The environments look okay, but the pixellated enemy graphics and the too-few frames for enemy animations cause this one to fall short of the mark.
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Slays the competition!
ADVANTAGE: RESURRECTION
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SOUND
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Atmosphere created by heavy (alien) breathing. No music.
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Atmosphere generated through great (but repetitive) musical score.
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Liked the tunes.
ADVANTAGE: TRILOGY
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CONTROLS
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Effective controls, but you might actually complete the entire game before mastering them. However, you can actually change your controller configuration AFTER you start the game (or swap someone else's game saves).
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Dead-on, with no guesswork. You'll spend the entire game holding down the "Run" button, but at least you actually CAN run! Once you save your game, though, you're stuck with that controller setup.
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Maybe better . . . definitely easier.
ADVANTAGE: TRILOGY
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INVENTORY HANDLING
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You can pick up health packs and autodocs when you see them and store them for later use. No armor or other health-enhancing items in this game, though.
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You automatically use medical kits, derm patches, adrenaline bursts, hypo packs, acid boots, and armor the instant you touch them. However, at least there is armor available.
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Love that "rainy day" storage system!
ADVANTAGE: RESURRECTION
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WEAPONS
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9 weapons if you split out the pistol and dual pistols; includes the laser and pulse rifle. But the shotgun can miss at 5 feet and that electric gun is really annoying to use!
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7 weapons if you split out the pulse rifle primary fire and secondary (grenade) fire. Also includes the smartgun.
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I want my smartgun!
ADVANTAGE: TRILOGY
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ENEMY VARIETY
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12 enemies (including the patients and chestbursters).
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12 enemies (including the infected humans).
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ALIEN ACID
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Acid only burns you when actually shooting the aliens. Alien bodies disappear quickly and don't leave a deadly puddle behind.
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Will burn you anytime you touch it, and alien cadavers are persistent. On HARD, revived aliens leave an invisible acid puddle on the floor that you can only detect by getting burned!
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Unrealistic--but less annoying!
ADVANTAGE: RESURRECTION
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BOSSES
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General Perez (a human, no less), 1 queen, and the newborn.
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3 queens, each still attached to her own ovipositor!
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3 queens. 'Nuff said.
ADVANTAGE: TRILOGY
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