History VideoGame / AlienResurrection

* UnstableEquilibrium: Because Ripley's ammo and healing items carry over from level to level, managing to save resources in earlier levels makes the later levels much more manageable. Level 6 and especially Level 7 in particular seems to expect you to come into it with a decent supply of ammo and healing items, as it is ''very'' difficult to fight through the level with just the ammo and healing items found in it.

* UnstableEquilibrium: Because Ripley's ammo and healing items carry over from level to level, managing to save resources in earlier levels makes the later levels much more manageable. Level 7 in particular seems to expect you to come into it with a decent supply of ammo and healing items, as it is ''very'' difficult to fight through the level with just the ammo and healing items found in it.

* VideoGameFlamethrowersSuck: The flamethrower is decent at clearing away facehuggers, but is absolutely terrible for direct combat against either aliens or soldiers.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In the film, Christie gets dragged off to an UncertainDoom while [=DiStephano=] survives the ''Auriga'' only to be killed by the Newborn while escaping in the ''Betty''. In the game, neither is explicitly shown or mentioned as dying and simply disappear once you stop playing as them.

* UnnecessaryCombatRoll: If you're hiding behind a corner, soldiers will roll around the corner to immediately fire at you instead or simply walking around the corner and being a sitting duck for you to shoot.

* FogOfWar: Like other full 3D Playstation games, ''Alien Resurrection'' has a quite short draw distance as the hardware was never really designed to render full 3D environments, at least not to the same extent as the PCs of the time. Past a few dozen feet or so the environment just disappears into darkness, though this fits with the game's setting.

* FogOfWar: Like other full 3D Playstation games, ''Alien Resurrection'' has a quite short draw distance as the hardware was never really designed to render full 3D environments. Past a few dozen feet or so the environment just disappears into darkness, though this fits with the game's setting.

* MeleeATrois: The Aliens and military soldiers are hostile to each other as well as to the player, though encounters between the two usually aren't really fights since the Aliens are usually scripted to instantly kill the soldiers as soon as they come into contact with them.

''Alien Resurrection'' is a 2000 UsefulNotes/{{Playstation}} 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.

** The hazmat suit-wearing, flamethrower-wielding Hazard Troopers are noticably tougher and more dangerous than the basic security guards. Marines armed with pulse rifles are likewise more dangerous than the pistol wielding guards.

* MeleeATrois: The Aliens and military soldiers are hostile to each other as well as to the player, though encounters between the two aren't really fights since the Aliens are scripted to instantly kill the soldiers as soon as they come into contact with them.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In the film, Christie gets dragged off to an UncertainDoom (assuming being pulled through a metal mesh floor didn't just result in FoldSpindleMutilation) while [=DiStephano=] survives the ''Auriga'' only to be killed by the Newborn while escaping in the ''Betty''. In the game, neither is explicitly shown or mentioned as dying and simply disappear once you stop playing as them.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In the film, Christie gets dragged off to an UncertainDoom while [=DiStephano=] survives the ''Auriga'' only to be killed by the Newborn while escaping in the ''Betty''. In the game, neither is explicitly shown or mentioned as dying and simply disappear once you stop playing as them.

* UnstableEquilibrium: Because Ripley's ammo and healing items carry over from level to level, managing to save resources in earlier levels makes the later levels much more manageable. Level 7 in particular seems to expect you to come into it with a decent supply of ammo and healing items, as it is ''very'' difficult to fight through the level with just the ammo and healing items found in it.

* UnnecessaryCombatRoll: If you're hiding behind a corner, soldiers will roll around the corner to immediately fire at you instead or simply walking around the corner and being a sitting duck for you to shoot.

** Your health is restored to full at the beginning of each level, to avoiding putting you in an UnintentionallyUnwinnable situation.
** As you cannot jump, acid does not damage you like in most other ''Aliens'' games, since Aliens often die in tight corridors or vents where it's impossible to maneuver around the bloody corpse.

* AdaptedOut: All of the characters other than the 4 player characters and the General have been removed from the plot, without even getting a passing mention in dialogue.

** In the film, the General is never really shown to be anything more than a military bureaucrat. Here, he's a MadeOfIron boss fight that can take an impressive amount of firepower to bring down as well as being backed up by a full squad of EliteMooks.

* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: While you mainly play as Ripley, you also alternate between playing as three other characters from the film (Call, Christie, and [=DiStephano=]).

* RoadRunnerPC: Inverted; the Aliens are noticeably slower than in most other ''Aliens'' franchise FPS games, but your own movement speed is likewise much slower and you cannot run. In fact the Aliens can outpace you quite rapidly, while in other games such as ''VideoGame/AlienTrilogy'' or the 1999 ''[[VideoGame/AliensVsPredator Aliens Vs Predator]]'' you could actually keep your distance from them by backpedaling while firing.

* RoadRunnerPC: Inverted; the Aliens are noticeably slower than in most other ''Aliens'' franchise FPS games, but your own movement speed is likewise much slower and you cannot run. In fact the Aliens can outpace you quite rapidly, while in other games such as ''VideoGame/AlienTrilogy'' or the 1999 ''[[VideoGame/AliensVsPredator1999 Aliens Vs Predator]]'' you could actually keep your distance from them by backpedaling while firing.

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