Aliens: A Comic Book Adventure

The Good
Great music on a full soundtrack. Very good sound design -- Bwooooooooomn. And the animation is pretty fluid and artwork really well done, very impressive for 1995.

The Bad
This game was a buggy, crashy mess -- for most of it, I had more crashes (32 all told) than deaths! The CD swapping is endless and frustrating, the save system is beyond unpredictable and unwieldy, and the inventory system was inconsistent and confusing.

Many of the 14.5 hours of total playtime were spent TRYING to play the game rather than actually playing it. From having to retrace my steps every time I died, to collecting lost inventory items, to dealing with unpredictable crashes, it proved a very sour experience.

And the plot holes at the end of the game -- which seemed very abrupt -- sapped whatever enjoyment I had of the story.

The Bottom Line
Not as infuriating a game like Ripper, but just a total slog to have to get through.