Reviews

1984 Green Fish Software (UK)
by SAJ Broad

Alien Rupture starts of with a quite nice 2 channel tune, reminding some 80's post-punk band sountrack to a B-side sci-fi movie but with a bizarre badly drawn skull and bones screen. And then forces you to ear it to end (several minutes).
Not so good.
After the long messages about instructions you are ready to play the game and it dares you to venture into the world of Alien Rupture. Advice: dont dare!
You already wasted your time reading my review, so dont waste your precious time playing this game. Friends advice.

Ok... go on! Dont say I didnt warn you!

Oh dear there's nothing much that can be said about Alien Rupture other than it's not very good at all.

Basically it's a shooter where despite being having "alien" in the title, you're shooting a pirate's skull and crossbones that moves across the screen. Once you do they turn into an RIP tombstone, shoot these too for points...so as long as the bullets don't actually go past them and make them disappear rather than actually hit them.

You must survive throughout the level's timer to progress...just so as long boredom doesn't kick in, and believe me it doesn't take it very long at all to kick in.

And before all that you are greeted with title music made entirely of random notes...you just know you're in for a good time while you hear it.

And the best part? The fact that when you're commanded to press a button to start the game the text ends with "if you dare". So "if you dare" to play this game and put up with its appalling quality then be my guest!

So yes let's put it this way, Alien Rupture is pretty bad without a single redeeming feature in it.