Alien Breed Impact

[StarBob]

Just looks like Alien Swarm rebuilt. Team 17 just copy it?

 

[Pi Mu Rho]

Please tell me you're joking.

 

[Naph]

Perhaps the very opposite. But on their part, not a great time to release it.

 

[Druckles]

I saw this. It seemed very similar, and my first impression was that it was related. Google told me it wasn't. It didn't seem worth it with a free game.

 

[Warbie]

!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFqtJLZ7SsU

 

[Bad^Hat]

Alien Breed is the first in a series of science fiction computer games played in the form of a top-down shooter for one or two players. It was released in 1991 by Team17 for the Commodore Amiga and later in 1993 by MicroLeague for MS-DOS.

Research is hard, guys.

 

[ríomhaire]

It's also not as co-op focused like Alien Swarm. AFAIK it has 2-player co-op, but there is a full SP campaign.

 

[Lucid]

Alien Breed was ****ing awesome.

This, however, isn't.

 

[StarBob]

Ah I see, I guess I wasn't paying much attention to the gaming world when I was six years old. I think as far as I had gone was Super Mario Bros. and Duck Hunt. Well as soon as I get a time machine I'll go back and educate myself in 1991 as to not offend anyone.

Anyways, I dunno how I was supposed to know a game that doesn't have any indications of being a sequel/remake would be older than a game that originally came along 6 years ago... especially when it came out 19 years ago.

...yep

 

[ríomhaire]

Ah I see, I guess I wasn't paying much attention to the gaming world when I was six years old. I think as far as I had gone was Super Mario Bros. and Duck Hunt. Well as soon as I get a time machine I'll go back and educate myself in 1991 as to not offend anyone.

Anyways, I dunno how I was supposed to know a game that doesn't have any indications of being a sequel/remake would be older than a game that originally came along 6 years ago... especially when it came out 19 years ago.

...yep

Alien Breed Impact itself has been out longer than Alien Swarm as well.

 

[Lucid]

Actually, Alien Swarm was a mod for UT2004 first.

 

[Druckles]

So there.

 

[ríomhaire]

Actually, Alien Swarm was a mod for UT2004 first.

Point taken. I had a brain thing.

 

[stemot]

Alien Breed was ****ing awesome.

This, however, isn't.

Alien Breed Impact is actually pretty good if your expecting the same gameplay as the originals. I bought it when it came out on Steam and thought it was well worth the cash, even more so now it's 50% off.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkzGeT08E9E

 

[StarBob]

You know what really really surprises me? There are soooo few FPS swarm games. Left 4 Dead executed it so well... and it was so popular... yet I haven't seen a single game of that nature. They've obviously been doing Third Person shooters and hack and slash forever, but there have been very few first person.

I mean granted you get overwhelmed by swarms in first person because you can't see in all directions as you can in a game of this nature, but I think that's part of the fun. I mean I've seen Alien Swarm in first person and it looks pretty neat, but I'm talking a real deal full fledged game like this in first person. Make it happen internet people.

 

[Warbie]

Have you played Firefight in ODST? It's the best example of 'horde' gameplay around.

 

[BabyHeadCrab]

I'm not a huge Left 4 Dead 1/2 or Alien Swarm guy so I'll try this out. I prefer my games either a little stupider, or a little dumber than L4D/AS--picky little ****er.

Either way these are all just Asteroids with added RPG elements and arbitrary co-op features HALP I'VE FALLEN AND I CAN'T GET UP. I'll stick to my Flashteroids, hmph... cept no MP (other than the standard 2-player per Asteroids 2 arcade machine!).

 

[Bad^Hat]

Ah I see, I guess I wasn't paying much attention to the gaming world when I was six years old. I think as far as I had gone was Super Mario Bros. and Duck Hunt. Well as soon as I get a time machine I'll go back and educate myself in 1991 as to not offend anyone.

Anyways, I dunno how I was supposed to know a game that doesn't have any indications of being a sequel/remake would be older than a game that originally came along 6 years ago... especially when it came out 19 years ago.

...yep

10 seconds on wikipedia, man. I guarantee it took you longer to type up this thread than it did for me to type "Alien Breed" into a search box.

 

[StarBob]

10 seconds on wikipedia, man. I guarantee it took you longer to type up this thread than it did for me to type "Alien Breed" into a search box.

Probably not considering the that I typed only two sentence fragments under a title.

Besides, what kind of person does research before everything they post? I guess you do. I tend to rely on my own knowledge and ask questions about things that I don't know instead of trying to look like a smart ass every time I make any comment.

 

[Druckles]

Research is hard, guys.

Technically this thread is research.