Alien Rampage

Hum... Niche. This is a side scroller/platformer of the old days. The graphics are still nice. The music is OK. The story is just an excuse to kill bugs. No bugs or crashes. Works fine on win 7. Overall, kinda fun to play for a little while. BUT... as usual with these old platformers, you can't save... and you will die and die again and again just to make your way again and again till you memorize the whole level. This is a very annoying aspect for anybody that is not driven by nostalgia or with the right obsessive mind for endless repetition. Of course, there are players that will enjoy this, but I think more recent games are far better and, well... you can SAVE!

Old and buggy, not worth your time. And that's coming from someone who loves old-school games.

Straight up trash. Don't even bother with this one.

Nostalgia and memories of some old good day

This game was part of my childhood back in the 1990s. Ah, the good memories with my brother. Memories that will never return.

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Alien Rampage es un juego de plataformas y acción lanzado originalmente el 19/09/1996 para MS-DOS, pero que a día de hoy mantiene el nivel con gráficos bastante buenos, modos parallax para dar y tomar y personajes muy bien animados, incluso mejor que muchos juegos de hoy en día. La historia va de que somos un alienígena, se nos estropeó la nave y terminamos en un planeta perdido de la mano del Señor, donde habitan unos bichos mutantes que están esclavizando a la raza original de dicho planeta. Este trasfondo sirve para que nosotros, como buenos alienígenas justicieros que somos, aniquilemos a todo mutante que se nos cruce por delante. Para cumplir nuestra misión tenemos un arma con varios tipos de disparos distintos que encontraremos a lo largo de los niveles, tenemos los típicos disparos concentrados, disparo amplio, lanzallamas, etc., y deberemos usar uno u otro dependiendo la situación y el enemigo. Éste último aspecto me sorprendió gratamente, ya que contamos con una gran variedad de enemigos, que cambian dependiendo el ecosistema en el que estemos. Tenemos hongos gigantes, plantas acuáticas carnívoras, una suerte de abejas enormes, calaveras fantasmas que escupen fuego, otros alienígenas armados, y unos humanoides grises que recuerdan muchísimo a los regeneradores de la saga Resident Evil. Y termino ahí la lista porque podría hacer la reseña entera hablando únicamente de los enemigos, reitero que hay muchísimos, bien animados y bien diferenciados... un aspecto redondo, muy trabajado. Hablando del tema de los niveles, decir que son grandes, se puede explorar y tendremos varios caminos a seguir, más allá de que el final del nivel es el mismo. El plataformeo está presente en la gran parte del juego, pero también hay momentos donde tendremos que resolver pequeños rompecabezas, manejar a un submarino para completar ciertas partes acuáticas, convertirnos en un pajarraco e incluso una zona de matamarcianos horizontal. En fin, que si bien es cierto que el plataformeo reina, hay variedad en ciertos momentos, eso ayuda a que no se haga tan repetitiva la jugabilidad. Ya para cerrar, decir que el control al apuntar requiere de precisión y no es imperativo jugar con control. No hay retraso en la respuesta de las acciones, ni tampoco sufrí de ralentizaciones/aceleraciones, aspectos de los que tenía dudas al tratarse de una emulación. Dicho esto, le otorgo a Alien Rampage una puntuación de 100/100 ♥ Si esta reseña te pareció útil, divertida y buscás más reseñas por el estilo, por favor, considerá seguirme como mentor: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/43250695/

*평점 : ★★★★☆ Alien Rampage 추억의 게임. 초딩4학년때, 게임피아에서 받은 부록CD에 DEMO버전이 존재하여 처음 접하게 되었다. 게임 이름을 까먹어서 그냥 추억으로만 간직하려고 했는데, 스팀에서 게임을 끄적이다 찾게 되었다. 그런데 막상 다시 접하다보니, 내가 어릴 적에 했던 그 게임보다 그래픽이 한참 후달렸다. 이것은 바로 추억보정이라는 것 같다. 내가 생각 했을 때는 좀 더 화려한 그래픽이었는데 분명...ㅋㅋ 아무튼 요즘 게임이 아니다보니, 프레임 자체가 예전 부두그래픽(예전 도스+윈도우 그래픽카드) 시절이라 간혹 멀미가 날 수 있다. 게임 자체는 너무 추억보정이라 나름 재미있게 한 것 같다. 일단 스토리 자체는, 주인공이 우주 여행 중에 돌연변이들이 기생하는 행성에 불시착하게 된다. 불시착한 행성은 대부분이 폐허가 된 상태였고, 그 행성에서는 노예로 끌려온 유니테리언들(게임에 등장하는 노예종족)이 무어 동맹국(약탈자)들에게 노동 착취와 핍박을 받고 있었다. 주인공은 유니테리언들을 해방시켜주고, 그들에게 도움을 받아 다시 행성 밖으로 나가기위해 배(우주비행기)를 찾으려한다. 물론 우주침략자인 무어 동맹국을 처치하고, 유니테리언들의 해방과 함께. *그 외 버그를 그대로 가져와 버렸다. 일단 거의 마지막 부분에 기름 넣는 부분이 있는데, 기름을 넣어도 기계가 안움직이거나, 기름이 안들어가는 버그가 존재한다. 이럴 때는, 로드를 하지말고 과감하게 게임을 종료한 후에, 다시 실행시켜야 정상작동한다. 그래도 버그가 생긴다? 그럼 다시 재접속하도록하자. 매우 짜증나는 버그기 때문에, 버그라고 인지를 못하는 순간, 몇 시간동안 헤메게 될 것이다.

Alien Rampage is an ancient game from 1996. It's a whopping 27 years old at the time of this review. The game lacks support for any modern gaming display resolutions (or widescreen monitors), hasn't been modernised or updated to run smoothly on modern gaming PCs. Despite this lack of modernisation, it carries a pretty high price tag for such an ancient game. This seems to have been put on Steam as a nostalgia gouge. This was an old 2D side scrolling platformer shooter from 1996... and that's really a bad thing. In 1996 gamers were busy playing Quake, Duke Nukem 3D and Diablo... so you can kind of see even for 1996 this was a bit of a reject. This game is so old it runs in DOSBOX and doesn't take advantage of hardware acceleration. It has a dated control scheme, dated graphics, and runs poorly due to the DOSBOX emulation. While DOSBOX is a fine tool for those seeking retro gaming, it's not really appropriate for ancient abandonware like this to be dumped on Steam without any modernisation, this is just a greedy cash grab from developers trying to get your money for dead software, they want to pay them a second time for a game you probably already owned. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. There's no option to change the resolution and no useful graphics tweaks. There's no way to ensure this is running at the native resolution of your display. There's no guarantee this game will look right on any PC as a result of this hamfisted design decision. The game only displays in 4:3 pillarboxed aspect ratio, due to the age of the game, it predates the 16:9 widescreen gaming standard established back in 2006. It's possible they're marketing this towards people using an old CRT they found in a dumpster, or this game is being specifically marketed towards people gaming on PC's from 1995... either way, this isn't really acceptable in the modern era of PC gaming. It's obviously not going to look right on a modern 16:9 gaming display. These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game. The poor quality of this game is reflected by how many people spent time with it. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the all-time peak player number was only 4 players. This is a remarkably low number, and now, the only player activity occurs once or twice a month, presumably someone loading it up to see what it is then quickly uninstalling it. Considering there's over 120 million gamers on Steam and well over 50,000 games for gamers to choose from (over 9,000 completely free titles), the overwhelming lack of interest in this low quality game is to be expected. Alien Rampage is disgustingly expensive for an abandonware nostalgia gouge, at $8 USD, and it's not worth it. The game is just too old, hasn't been modernised. And as the old saying goes, you can't go home again. Even when it was new, this was never a triple-A game. This is the kind of game that went almost directly from the warehouse into the cheap bargain bins at the front of the shop. Now, on Steam, without any modernisation? This is impossible to recommend.

I've heard this game started out as Duke Nukem Forever in it's earliest form. Generally a pretty solid side scroller!