Bit dated by today's standards, although definitely a really underappreciated game - where it's a first person shooter game on the original Playstation that handles a bit clunkily, but it just adds to the overall tension of it which is pretty chilling throughout. Feels way more claustrophobic in tone than the actual movie does - and an example of a game that does a bit too many things at once, like a jack of all trades but not exactly a master of any of them - but still with some moments of brilliance in it. It's one of the earliest games I thought captured the atmosphere of the Alien movies really well though.

Also, there's an old Gamespot review where they complain about the control scheme where you use the left analog stick to move forwards, backwards and for strafing and the right analog stick to look around (which has since been adopted by pretty much every single FPS game after this one - this was the first to do it.), although you could also use a mouse for this game as well. But I played this game without analog sticks which made it even worse.

Reviewed on Jul 08, 2021


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