Videogamer writes: "Alien Breed Evolution Episode One, the first of three downloadable games based on the classic Amiga shooter Alien Breed, is too old school for its own good. Sure, the graphics have evolved, but the gameplay is frustratingly dated.
Take, for example, the save system. Back in the early Nineties, when dinosaurs ruled the earth and computers required bolts of lightning to get going, punishing save points were de rigueur, making you fear the game over screen like a child fears the dark. In today's socially networked world, however, they're just a pain in the backside. We don't have the time to replay 20 minutes of gameplay. Why should we, when we could be playing Farmville instead?"
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.
