History VideoGame / AlienTrilogy

* NintendoHard: While an individual fight may not be too hard, it's pretty easy to run out of ammo or health, especially if you miss a lot of the secrets. Learning the location of the secrets is almost essential to make it through the game. There's also the fact you can't save mid-level.

''Alien Trilogy'' is a 1996 FirstPersonShooter for the [[UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer PC]], UsefulNotes/{{Playstation}}, and UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn, loosely based on the first three films in the ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' franchise. The game is highly reminiscent of ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'', and follows the adventures of Ellen Ripley (who seems to be a Colonial Marine rather than a civilian consultant) as she battles her way through the LV-426 colony while fighting the Aliens as well as insane infected colonists and evil Weyland-Yutani mercenaries. Overall the game follows a BroadStrokes version of the plot of ''Film/{{Aliens}}'' while including weapons and enemies seen in ''Film/{{Alien}}'' and ''Film/Alien3''.

* AnticlimaxBoss: None of the three Alien Queen fought throughout the games are very challenging as they are stunned by player fire just like every other enemy in the game and their only attack is a short-ranged claw swipe. The second queen is especially easy as players can easily [[AIBreaker exploit a flaw in her AI]] and trap her in the small space between her cocoon and the wall.
** The first and third queens also don't understand how ramps work, (presumably the second doesn't but there are no ramps in her stage) meaning you can stand up a ramp and open fire while they just run around helplessly.

* GuideDangIt: Most of the game's secrets can only be accessed by doing bizarre, often random and counter-intuitive things. See the entry on the main page for more information.

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''Alien Trilogy'' is a 1996 FirstPersonShooter for the [[UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer PC]], UsefulNotes/{{Playstation}}, and UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn, loosely based on the first 3 films in the ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' franchise. The game is highly reminiscent of ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'', and follows the adventures of Ellen Ripley (who seems to be a Colonial Marine rather than a civilian consultant) as she battles her way through the LV-426 colony while fighting the Aliens as well as insane infected colonists and evil Weyland-Yutani mercenaries. Overall the game follows a BroadStrokes version of the plot of ''Aliens'' while including weapons and enemies seen in ''Alien'' and ''Alien 3''.

It is now {{Abandonware}}, and can be downloaded [[https://www.myabandonware.com/game/alien-trilogy-294 here]].

* AdaptationDistillation: To say the game is a BroadStrokes version of ''Film/{{Aliens}}'' is putting it mildly. Ripley is the player character for the entirety of the game, with no support from the Marines (they're all killed off in the opening cutscenes) and only Bishop as her backup. There is no Rebecca "Newt" Jorden, and the final third of the game doesn't involve Ripley trying to find and rescue her -- instead, Ripley assaults the Derelict on her own to destroy the Queen once and for all.

''Alien Trilogy'' is a 1996 First Person Shooter for the PC, Playstation, and Sega Saturn loosely based on the first 3 films in the ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' franchise. The game is highly reminiscent of ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'', and follows the adventures of Ellen Ripley (who seems to be a Colonial Marine rather than a civilian consultant) as she battles her way through the LV-426 colony while fighting the Aliens as well as insane infected colonists and evil Weyland-Yutani mercenaries. Overall the game follows a BroadStrokes version of the plot of ''Aliens'' while including weapons and enemies seen in ''Alien'' and ''Alien 3''.

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* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: The shotgun is acquired on the first level and has a remarkably high rate of fire as well as dealing excellent damage, killing hostile humans in a couple shots and Alien warriors in 4-5 shots.

* AdaptationalWimp: Facehuggers are very weak in this game, only doing 5 damage when they latch onto you and being easily shot off (which kills them), instead of instantly killing you like they do in the ''Aliens vs Predator'' games.

** Level 15, the Lead Mould area, is populated by a BossInMooksClothing variant of the Dog Alien that is the toughest enemy in the game besides the Alien Queen. They can take about two dozen shotgun blasts to kill, or almost 100 rounds from the pulse rifle.

* NintendoHard: While an individual fight may not be too hard, it's pretty easy to run out of ammo or health, especially if you miss a lot of the secrets. Learning the location of the secrets is almost essential to make it through the game. There's also the fact you can't save mid-level, and that there's only one difficulty level.

The game notably has fully 3D-rendered environments as well as items such as weapon or health pickups, although the actual weapon and enemy models are the typical ''Doom''-style 2D sprites of the time period.

** The burly combat synths armed with smartguns are a lot tougher and more damaging than other human enemies. The Weyland-Yutani soldiers wearing Alien Handler[=/=]A.P.E. suits from ''Alien 3'' are a bit tougher than the regular Weyland-Yutani troops, and also use the underslung grenade launcher on their pulse rifles, making them particularly dangerous.
** In the final several levels, the regular Alien Warrior is replaced with a palette-swapped variant that is ''much'' tougher, requiring a few dozen shotgun blasts to bring down instead of just 4-5.
* EmergencyWeapon: The 9mm pistol never runs out of ammo (if you run out of 9mm ammo you just have to reload it after every shot, which takes less than a fraction of a second) but is ''incredibly'' weak, requiring at least a few dozen shots to kill anything larger than a facehugger.

* RecurringBoss: The Alien Queen is the game's boss enemy and is fought 3 times throughout the game, at the end of each Act.

The game notably has fully 3D-rendered items such as weapon or health pickups, although the actual weapon and enemy models are the typical ''Doom''-style 2D sprites of the time period.

''Alien Trilogy'' is a 1996 First Person Shooter for the PC, Playstation, and Sega Saturn loosely based on the first 3 films in the ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' franchise. The game is highly reminiscent of ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'', and follows the adventures of Ellen Ripley (who seems to be a Colonial Marine rather than a civilian consultant) as she battles her way through the LV-426 colony and later the Fury-161 prison while fighting the Aliens as well as insane infected colonists and evil Weyland-Yutani mercenaries.

** On Fury-161, the regular Alien Warrior is replaced with a palette-swapped variant that is ''much'' tougher, requiring a few dozen shotgun blasts to bring down instead of just 4-5. Fortunately, they're relatively rare, with the "Runner" dog-like Aliens serving as the main enemies on those levels.

* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: The shotgun is acquired on the first level and has a remarkably high rate of fire as well as dealing excellent damage, killing hostile humans in a couple shots and Alien warriors in 4-5 shots.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: At the end of the game Ripley escapes the planet on a dropship and is put into stasis sleep by Bishop, instead of [[spoiler: plunging into molten steel to kill the Alien Queen fetus like she does at the end of ''Alien 3'']].

* SparedByTheAdaptation: At the end of the game Ripley escapes the planet on a dropship and is put into stasis sleep by a marine (possibly Hicks), instead of [[spoiler: plunging into molten steel to kill the Alien Queen fetus like she does at the end of ''Alien 3'']].

''Alien Trilogy'' is a 1996 First Person Shooter for the PC, Playstation, and Sega Saturn loosely based on the first 3 films in the ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' franchise. The game is highly reminiscent of ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'', and follows the adventures of Ellen Ripley as she battles her way through the LV-426 colony and later the Fury-161 prison while fighting the Aliens as well as insane infected colonists and evil Weyland-Yutani mercenaries.

''Alien Trilogy'' is a 1996 First Person Shooter loosely based on the first 3 films in the ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' franchise. The game is highly reminiscent of ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'', and follows the adventures of Ellen Ripley as she battles her way through the LV-426 colony and later the Fury-161 prison while fighting the Aliens as well as insane infected colonists and evil Weyland-Yutani mercenaries.

''Alien Trilogy'' is a 1996 First Person Shooter loosely based on the first 3 films in the ''Franchise/Alien'' franchise. The game is highly reminiscent of ''VideoGame/Doom'', and follows the adventures of Ellen Ripley as she battles her way through the LV-426 colony and later the Fury-161 prison while fighting the Aliens as well as insane infected colonists and evil Weyland-Yutani mercenaries.

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