Alien Trilogy (Sega Saturn)

Aliens...one of the cult flicks of the 80's, made it's way to the Saturn in the form of Alien Trilogy as a first person shooter in true Doom-style form. While it has its fine points, a lot of things were missing from this game. It has the Doom-style perspective, looking over the barrel of a gun, and it has the Doom-style graphics, or finding and enemy and blasting it with said gun. However, while this may appeal to most people who are Doom/Quake/Hexen fanatics, it leaves some things to be desired. When you look back on the game, you’ll find that there isn’t much here to separate this title from any other title that you’ll find with a first person shooting theme, so if you’re looking for originality or anything else, you’ll find that Alien Trilogy is the last place that you want to start!

It's Doom...but it's not. Instead of giving you grotesque creatures and good lighting effects, it gives you cutout aliens and darkness upon darkness. Nothing much in this game makes an impression, other than those very short FMV sequences that you see to separate the levels! The sound also suffers horribly. Lacking a strong paced soundtrack to play to, and average background noises, there is little to hear, and even less to listen to. Again, trying to take a game based on a movie, and add in something to exchange for another, is sometimes a bad idea...this time, the music was sacrificed! This game is one of those once in a while weekend rentals. If you buy it, then it must be cheap and it does add a number to your growing library. On the other hand, don't count on have too much fun with this game, if you like Doom, then play Doom and maybe leave this one on the shelf.