Thinking about buying Alien Syndrome? GameTrailers has a video of some intense firefights in Alien Syndrome for the Wii. Check it out.
Edge: The Passing's sell – two groups of survivors – could have led to an array of new mechanics: dual-level survivors, split by geography but working together, or eightplayer sessions. Instead, we have a shorter campaign topped and tailed with a few phrases of incidental dialogue and updated character models. It cuts a nice line in set-pieces, presenting three straight from the top drawer, but pacing decisions make it feel a little less rounded than L4D2's existing campaigns. Really, it's just a shame that this unique combination of still-alivers didn't result in something truly innovative.
The original Alien Syndrome, released in the mid-80s by Sega, was blatantly influenced by both Aliens and Gauntlet, and while the home games based on the Aliens license weren’t bad, the arcade game released by Konami was a pretty simplistic shooter. Alien Syndrome had large sprawling maps to traverse, which made for a more interesting adventure. In each area, you had to rescue hostages and fight a boss, all with a pretty strict time limit, all while under near constant attack.
Alien Syndrome was ported to pretty much every machine under the sun at the time, but, other than a 3D remake for the PS2 some 15 years later that never saw the light of day in Europe, the series vanished without a trace. That was until 2007, when, when, with virtually no fanfare, a brand new game was released for the Wii and PSP.
SEGA has today added a number of new titles to their warmly received PSN Essentials Spring Sale. Launched back in late March, the PSN Essentials Spring Sale continues to offer a number of top-tier PlayStation Portable titles at a greatly reduced price, as well as PlayStation 3 downloadable content (DLC) and some ports of classics Mega-Drive games.
Shame Crazy taxi is for PSP only :( Would love DC port to PS3. Ah well will have to wait for E3 hope we get the... Oh almost let it slip there :).
sega, how about brining out-run to NA. seriously, the lack of PSN store support from these devs are stupid.
I picked up Gunstar Heroes in this. Already got it on about for systems, but come on - It's Gunstar Heroes for £2.39!!!
