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* HardLevelsEasyBosses: The game is NintendoHard, but the bosses are fairly straightforward and mostly only present a challenge because of how much of your limited ammo they eat up. The Alien Queen can give you trouble if you fight her with the shotgun, but if you fight her with the pulse rifle you can just keep circle-strafing outside the range of her attacks and shooting her until she collapses. The Newborn is even easier to avoid just by moving away from him and periodically shocking him with the electric gun. Only General Perez is really potentially dangerous due to his use of firearms, boss-level health, and EliteMooks accompanying him.

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* HardLevelsEasyBosses: The game is NintendoHard, difficult, but the bosses are fairly straightforward and mostly only present a challenge because of how much of your limited ammo they eat up. The Alien Queen can give you trouble if you fight her with the shotgun, but if you fight her with the pulse rifle you can just keep circle-strafing outside the range of her attacks and shooting her until she collapses. The Newborn is even easier to avoid just by moving away from him and periodically shocking him with the electric gun. Only General Perez is really potentially dangerous due to his use of firearms, boss-level health, and EliteMooks accompanying him.
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* NintendoHard: The game is extremely hard, doubly so if you play with a controller instead of mouse aiming. Aliens can kill you in just a few hits and ammo and healing items are scarce. The game's difficulty was one of the main negatives most reviews complained about at the time.
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''Alien Resurrection'' is a 2000 UsefulNotes/{{Playstation}} SurvivalHorror FirstPersonShooter based on the 1997 [[Film/AlienResurrection movie of the same name]], developed by Argonaut Games (the creators of ''VideoGame/StarFox'') and published by Fox Interactive. As a fully 3D first person shooter, it was relatively advanced for its hardware, being released mere months before the release of the UsefulNotes/Playstation2. The game pioneered the dual stick controller movement and aiming controls that are now standard for console FPS games, and could even be played with mouse aiming using the Playstation's proprietary mouse accessory.

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''Alien Resurrection'' is a 2000 UsefulNotes/{{Playstation}} Platform/PlayStation SurvivalHorror FirstPersonShooter based on the 1997 [[Film/AlienResurrection movie of the same name]], developed by Argonaut Games (the creators of ''VideoGame/StarFox'') and published by Fox Interactive. As a fully 3D first person shooter, it was relatively advanced for its hardware, being released mere months before the release of the UsefulNotes/Playstation2.Platform/PlayStation2. The game pioneered the dual stick controller movement and aiming controls that are now standard for console FPS games, and could even be played with mouse aiming using the Playstation's proprietary mouse accessory.
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* SaveGameLimits: The game uses [[SavePoint Save Points]] in the form of wall-mounted terminals which are spaced fairly far apart from each other in each level. On Hard difficulty, each terminal is disabled immediately after you use it, preventing you from using each one more than once.
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''Alien Resurrection'' is a 2000 UsefulNotes/{{Playstation}} SurvivalHorror FirstPersonShooter based on the 1997 [[Film/AlienResurrection movie of the same name]], developed by Argonaut Games and published by Fox Interactive. As a fully 3D first person shooter, it was relatively advanced for its hardware, being released mere months before the release of the UsefulNotes/Playstation2. The game pioneered the dual stick controller movement and aiming controls that are now standard for console FPS games, and could even be played with mouse aiming using the Playstation's proprietary mouse accessory.

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''Alien Resurrection'' is a 2000 UsefulNotes/{{Playstation}} SurvivalHorror FirstPersonShooter based on the 1997 [[Film/AlienResurrection movie of the same name]], developed by Argonaut Games (the creators of ''VideoGame/StarFox'') and published by Fox Interactive. As a fully 3D first person shooter, it was relatively advanced for its hardware, being released mere months before the release of the UsefulNotes/Playstation2. The game pioneered the dual stick controller movement and aiming controls that are now standard for console FPS games, and could even be played with mouse aiming using the Playstation's proprietary mouse accessory.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Don't be Afraid of the Dark. Be Afraid of what's ''in'' it.]]
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* RangedEmergencyWeapon: Your pistol has infinite ammo and can kill basic security guards with just 1-3 shots, but it takes 8-9 shots to kill an Alien and the relatively low rate of fire means that they can often easily run up to you and maul you before you can manage to shoot them enough. Killing 1 Alien with the pistol is hard enough, and you can forget about fighting 2 or more Aliens with it.

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* RangedEmergencyWeapon: Your pistol has infinite ammo and can kill basic security guards with just 1-3 shots, but it takes 8-9 shots to kill an Alien and the relatively low rate of fire means that they can often easily run up to you and maul you before you can manage to shoot them enough. Killing 1 Alien with the pistol is hard enough, and you can forget about fighting 2 or more Aliens with it. Christie's ability to dual-wield pistols does make them a more viable weapon against single Aliens, but they're still inadequate for taking on groups.
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* EleventhHourSuperpower: In the 9th level (which is the last full level, the 10th level being the FinalBoss fight) you lose all your weapons and supplies, but pick up an electric shock rifle from a dead guard. It can kill an Alien with a single moderately charged shot, and ammo for it is plentiful. It's not as massively overpowered as, say, the ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'' super gravity gun, and you still need to anticipate Alien attacks ahead of time and charge the rifle for a few seconds before firing, but it does feel more powerful than your previous arsenal.

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