Franklin Dee on 10/10/2006 8:53 AM · edited · Permalink · Report

EDIT: I found the game by chance - saw a screenshot I recognised on home of the underdogs. It's Alien Odyssey, by phillips interactive, 1995 release. Heh, now it'll stop bugging me, so i can go find and play it instead. :D thanks, everyone.

Hi all

I need some help identifying a DOS-era game on CD. I don't know much, as I only ever had a demo from a coverdisc. many, many years ago :).

The intro shows you (a human male), and your friend, a tiger striped orange humanoid alien infiltrating a base on a jungle world, gaurded by big, cyborg looking aliens. your friend kills one with a large throwing star, then you sneak inside and he gets caught from behind by another one, who pops out from a door in the tunnel, grabs him and closes it again just in time for you to whirl round and bang on the door.

The game then starts - 3-rd person fixed camera, slowly jog, carefuly jump, and shoot things. think Bioforge, without the hand to hand.

You had to jump across a big fan in the floor to get to a generator, if you got it wrong, you would see a small CGI cutscene of you being chopped up by the fan until your head goes bouncing off. (with purple blood, too. odd, that.) There was a little lizard on the other side of the fan, that would sometimes spit at you.

Apparently, between levels you also would ride on a hoverbike, a'la starwars ROTJ, to get to the next part. It's all I can remember - it's not a lot to go on, I know, but it's all I can remember.

Many thanks!