Alien Breed is a top-down science fiction shooter somewhat inspired by the movie Alien in terms of plot and atmosphere. Gameplay, though, was obviously inspired by the Atari arcade classic Gauntlet. The game tells a typical sci-fi story of an alien invasion on the space station ISRC-4. Two space marines, Johnson and Stone, are the only human beings left to clear the base of aliens.

Moving around an alien-infested complex in a top-down view, you must at all times keep an eye not only on your energy level, but also be conservative with ammunition. Though you will find new ammo cartridges strewn around the levels, they are consumed quickly by respawning aliens that may come crawling out of the floors and walls when you least expect it. On the floors, you will also find keys for passing through locked doors. Keys must also be used with care, or you may find yourself locked out of a room containing the remaining keys that you will need in order to complete the level. Other doors are one-way, and will electrocute you if you try to pass it in the other direction.

Other major bonuses found on the floor are emergency kits for restoring your health, and credits. The credits come in handy when you find an Infotex terminal. There, you can access information about your current mission and your vital statistics, as well as buy supplies such as ammunition, weapons and keys.

Music is forfeited in this game, in favour of ambience sounds from machinery, machine gun sounds and the sounds of the aliens running around the base.

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Alien Breed series

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	Alien Breed
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Gauntlet guest starring Sigourney Weaver.

Zovni (9425)

unrated

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The Press Says

Pelit	Aug, 1993	75 out of 100	75
PC Gamer	May, 1994	75 out of 100	75
PC Games (Germany)	Jan, 1994	65 out of 100	65
PC Player (Germany)	Jan, 1994	58 out of 100	58

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Trivia

Hidden Text

There are some truly bizarre and funny pieces of text in the program binary. Those are actually things you can type in while on the in-game "computer" screen. Some of these are cheats but most of the them simply respond with messages on the screen (like what the developers thought of each of the listed magazines, for example).

HELLO MUM!
THE ACE GAMES TESTER!!!
NIK DID SPIDER AND FIDDLYFODDLEBIRD
HE IS A VERY NICE MAN!
EEEEEKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!
KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK.
EXCELLENT, THE 1993 SPECIAL ISSUE
GETTING BETTER ALL THE TIME!
NICE TO SEE LOTS OF CD COVERAGE
LEAVING MR CHRISTMAS
CUT A DISK
KEY TO THE CITY
MR YALE OR WHAT
JUST CALL ME MOGGY
WHY NOT CALL ME MOGGY AS WELL
JESUS THIS JIM BEAMS IS GOOD STUFF
AHH BUT WILL SHE SWALLOW IT
STEVIE WONDER
KNACKERED JOYSTICK
HARD BASTARDS
ALIENS LIKE MICHAEL BOLTON
FUCK OFF
JANUARY SALE NOW ON
ALIENS ARE BENDERS
ST EMULATOR
KATRINA HAS FARTED AND ITS A BEAUTY
PC EMULATOR
I JUST LOVE TEAM17 SOFTWARE
I WANT FISH
SALMAN RUSHDIE PLAYS ALIEN BREED
THE IRAQIS MADE THE WEAPONS
ELVIS MODE
ST USERS
STUART HODGKINSON
MARTYN BROWN
SPIDER
PC REVIEW
PC FORMAT
PC ZONE
PC HOME

Reception

This game was a smash hit on the Amiga platform, followed on that system not only by Tower Assault, but also a first-person shooter creatively titled Alien Breed 3D. This last one was considered the "Doom Killer" for the Amiga by users frustrated that id's classic was never ported to their beloved computer.