Alien Resurrection (2000). Play Free Online

Summary

Alien Resurrection arrived on the PlayStation in 2000 after years of rocky development. What finally landed was a first‑person shooter that forced us to juggle movement and aiming with both sticks of the DualShock — one of the earliest games to do so — and it even supported the PlayStation Mouse for tighter control.

Each of the four film characters gets a dedicated level; Ripley leads most of them while Call, DiStephano and Christie bring their own gear, like Call’s motion tracker and Christie’s twin pistols. The arsenal ranges from a laser rifle and shotgun to a rocket launcher and flamethrower, and players must deactivate switches, chase overheating pods, and avoid face‑huggers that can hatch inside the avatar.

Critics praised the creepy atmosphere but panned the graphics and brutal difficulty, noting the dual‑stick scheme felt clunky at the time. Sales hovered around 250 000 units, making it a financial bust, and planned ports for Sega Saturn, PC and Dreamcast never materialised.

Storyline

Alien Resurrection on PlayStation follows the same basic plot as the film, set two hundred years after Alien ³. Military scientists have cloned Lieutenant Ellen Ripley to harvest the Alien Queen that still resides inside her, hoping to breed a new line of bio‑weapons. When the Queen’s offspring break containment aboard the research vessel USM Auriga, the ship is overrun by swarming Xenomorphs.

Ripley awakens on the infected Auriga and must team up with four stranded mercenaries – Call, DiStephano, Christie and herself – to fight the creatures and secure a way home. The group battles through corridors, disables security systems and searches for the ship’s escape pod while trying to keep the alien brood from reaching Earth.

The game’s objective is to clear the vessel of the alien threat and return the Auriga safely to Earth, mirroring the desperate survival theme of the movie.

Edited by Maya Carter