Alien Breed
Developer(s)	Team 17
Publisher(s)	Team 17, MicroLeague
Designer(s)	Andreas Tadic, Peter Tuleby
Release date(s)	1991
Genre	Scrolling shooter
Mode(s)	Single player, Two player
Rating(s)	N/A
Platform(s)	Amiga, AmigaCD32, DOS
Media	3 floppy disks or 1 CD
System requirements	1MB RAM (Amiga)
Input	Joystick, Keyboard

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Gameplay

The game was based heavily, and unofficially, on the Alien films, specificially Aliens. The game consisted of the player or players having to find the lift down to the next level, occasionally setting the self destruct sequence to blow up the level above them. The players collected a variety of weapons from the space station's computer terminals. Credits found on the ground would have to be saved for those weapons and other enhancements, each giving you an edge over the gradually more and more powerful Alien forces. Alien (1979), directed by Ridley Scott, is an extremely popular and influential science fiction/horror film that spawned several sequels and imitators. ... Film poster for Aliens Aliens is a 1986 science fiction horror movie starring Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn, Lance Henriksen, Carrie Henn, Bill Paxton and Paul Reiser. ... The xenomorph is a fictional extraterrestrial monster of unknown origin from the Alien universe, designed by the Swiss artist H. R. Giger. ...

Alien Breed also stands, to this day, as one of the best cooperative two-player games made, providing an excellent level of tension, desperation and furious action.

Alien Breed Special Edition '92 was an expanded version, sold at budget price, and was hugely popular, staying in the charts for more than a year. It also featured a movie trailer style advert for Team 17's upcoming Superfrog, which was unusual at the time. Theatrical trailers are 2-3 minute advertisements for movies that play in cinemas before another movie. ... SuperFrog is a 2D Platform game developed for the Amiga and then converted for PC, developed by Team 17 Software in 1993. ...

In 1993, a fully fledged sequel, Alien Breed II was released and well received, followed by Alien Breed: Tower Assault in 1994. This last game was released with an extraordinarily long prerendered intro sequence on the AmigaCD32 version. It was blasted in magazines for being far too difficult. The AmigaCD32 is the worlds first 32bit CD-ROM based game console. ...

Alien Breed 3D and Alien Breed 3D II: The Killing Grounds attempted to expand the franchise into the first person shooter genre, but both games were severely limited by the processing power of the Amigas available at the time, and bore little resemblance to the smooth-scrolling high resolution pixel art of their predecessors. A first-person shooter (FPS) is a computer or video game where the players on-screen view of the game world simulates that of the character, and there is some element of shooting involved. ... In computing, Amiga is a range of home/personal computers primarily using the Motorola 68000 processor family, whose development started in 1982, initially as a game machine. ...

External Links

• An Alien Breed fan site
• Alien Breed Remake
• Alien Breed entry at Dream17 - The Team17 Fansite