Last month, UK developer Team 17 announced that it was developing an update of its smash hit Amiga blaster, Alien Breed. As with the latest versions of Worms, the title will be self-published and distributed as a digital download via the likes of Xbox Live Arcade and the PlayStation Network.
To find out a little more, Guardian fired some questions over to Martyn Brown, the studio director. Here's what he had to say.
GOG.com, the digital distributor of DRM -free PC games, has added PC games from developer Team 17 Software Ltd. to their roster. They now offer a number of games that Team 17 has developed, and GOG.com including the quintessential artillery shooter Worms United, a special edition of the original Worms with the expansion Worms Reinforcements.
Following the launch of four new downloadable content (DLC) packs for Worms Reloaded, Team17 has announced that their promised discounts will extend to other titles also. A spate of sale prices will be applied to many of their titles in celebration of the summer season, both on PC and iOS.
As the first chapter in the new trilogy, it’s up to Alien Breed: Evolution to create compelling enough story to keep the player interested between chapters. It does so with a comic strip style series of panels and some surprisingly laudable voice acting. There’s not much going on here that doesn’t fit easily into the typical science-fiction library, certainly nothing that competes on literary grounds with those attempting to push forward the medium as a story telling device, but regardless it’s an enjoyable tale for the most part; which is really the same as that which can be said about the game itself.
I've still got alien breed on my Amiga 32 one of the best games of its Gen alone with chaos engine will defo pick this up.
Sh!t I remember playing that way back in the day.
If its any good I think I'll have to pick it up on PSN.
Thats got me thinking about all the other old games that could do with a new lease of life.
Speedball 2 was a quality little game back in the day, I'm sure they could make a much better version now.