An Alien Video Game Retrospective

Pete Worth, Thunderbolt writes:

You can’t see them, but the motion-tracker detects their presence, its dreadful beeps quicken with the pounding of your heart. Beep beep beep – thud thud thud. You gasp as they suddenly emerge from the shadows, preternaturally sprinting at you and letting out a terrible scream, their inner-jaws snapping as you have seconds to act; either shoot straight or be eviscerated. The aliens (alternatively referred to as xenomorphs) are a perfectly-suited video game nemesis. H.R. Giger’s magnificent biomechanical specimens have successfully infested the video game world alongside the cinematic realm. Although also famous for being pitched against another classic big-screen extra terrestrial, the predator, this article will focus on alien-only games as the AVP game history is another article entirely.