Reviews

Well-presented multipart game, which suffered from a ridiculously difficult first part with a gyrating vector dot tunnel which I never beat. Using cheats, the second part isn't all that great either, being a maze game to find Newt, in identical sorta-isometric maze areas. The third part is some sort of reskinned Tapper - you must destroy the aliens before they reach your bar, I guess. I never defeated them, and I have a feeling this is deliberate. Final stage is the world's worst beat em up, where you attempt to throw the alien queen out of the airduct with freight loader fisticuffs.

It sounds great and yet every part is worse than expected.

Oh Dear!

I'm curious as to why Electric Dreams even bothered with this?

Aliens the US version? I was curious nowadays if this was the US version of Aliens for the C64 that was converted to the Speccy (and other 8-bits in Europe)? I have no idea if this is the case but the shoddiness of the title in question makes me think maybe it was?

Why Electric Dreams even gave this the time of day is beyond me? The previous year they brought us the rather Brilliant...erm Aliens. But in 1987 they brought us the rather shite Aliens US version.

This is an early example of why Americans should not be allowed to make video/computer games without a Japanese or European influence, to put it quite bluntly and harshly most turn out terrible, full of stereotypical cheese, and basically end up crap.

Aliens US version is basically a naff collection of piss poor mini-games that pisses all over the legacy of the rather good Aliens...erm...Not US version, and to think they charged £9.99 for this dire sub-standard shit lump, it's enough to make you vomit in your sleep and choke to death on it.

This game is a piss poor joke, and a shameless attempt to cash in, on something that had basically already been cashed in on.

Even the budget re-release price of £2.99 was a rip-off!