cool
man this game is very good please make more
Reviews for "ALIENS the Board Game"
Excellent
I couldn't disagree with markcysts more. I quite enjoy the anticipation of an alien dropping on one of your marines heads, also when it does happen its a real situation getting it off, attempt to dislodge the alien by hand with lower chances or risk shooting at the marine and killing him and the alien (I use both methods). A cool thing I noticed is that when many marines are trying to dislodge an alien it will be unable to snatch the grabbed marine up (it takes another roll so might wound or incapacitate him or rarely kill him but does not snatch him), this gives you another go to try and sort the alien out.
This game is truly exceptional, I have played many of the latest video games you buy in shops but none as addictive as this, I keep coming back to it and playing it again, the great thing is there are so many possible outcomes, and I find while I am playing truly film like sequences are played out. For example on level 3 I had a situation where Apone was stuck in a room with 4 aliens within his reach (3 in the same room 1 in the adjacent) amazingly he manages to flame all three in his sight, the go ends but there is one alien left, damn he's a gonner and he is unsupported, the alien runs up and jumps on him, another 2 aliens drop in the room on the alien turn, it's over. But miraculously he manages to throw the alien off and amazingly uses his last 2 goes to flame the other 2 standing aliens, I heard myself say "outstanding, truly outstanding soldier" (he finishes the thrown off alien the next go). Miraculous and heroic action like this is not uncommon in the game, and has you gripping your seat in anticipation.
You can complete operations with the whole film cast intact I remember doing it, it relies a lot on you grenades, granted it is very difficult.
What I would love to see is some seperate missions or more maps not connected to the storyline they do not have to be related to the films but can come from the Aliens franchise, the comics have plenty of cool missions and even the AvP video games have some great material. For example a similar mission to mission 1 would be marines escaping a large complocated infested hulk (I played this often online on AvP2).
Perhaps a map editor, I would love to be able to create missions on this. A multiplayer option would be great also, I would love to be able to play a friend and play as the aliens.
Anyways great work this is an excellent game, it is simply structured but at the same time the gameplay produces and enables a lot of intricacy, so that it has lasting appeal.
I like to play the game grouping my men into 2 fire teams and have a "no one is left to the enemy" policy this means even flaming a grabbed marine rather than have him snatched (only if there is no other option).
The link below is an image of all 3 missions completed in a row, the only fatality I had was Vasquez who died in the tunnels of mission 2 shooting off an alien from a grabbed colleague (who survived the engagement was incapacitated and carried out). If you look on the right of the screen notice that I left Burke, I contemplated taking him back but decided he deserved to die owing to his cowardice and treachery.
http://img413.imageshack.us/my.php?im age=aliensboardgameend2jc3.png
Thanks again great game let me know what you think of the review..
homedrone responds:
I like that you CHOSE not to rescue Burke. Even though you clearly had the option to. Nice :)
A mission editor would be too complicated for me to make since my maps are not constructed by tiles. They are each one big bitmap. If I ever do a remake, I would make the graphics out of individual tiles. Then a mission editor might be a possibility.
Excellent but...
Dude you have got to get a feature that remembers the people you saved from the last map so you can use them on the next one, because I hate not having the 6 people I saved from the reactor to not be in the operations level.
The game was the best flash game I have ever played in existance though.
Do you think you will ever do a second one, more levels and weapons? Perhaps based on Aliens: Colonial Marines or your own original storyline?
homedrone responds:
I'm not sure what you mean by "remember the people you saved". If you mean you want to continue to the Operations map with the marines you escaped the Reactor with and so on, you can do that, just click on Continue Mission at the mission result screen.
The fact that you can't save to retry sequel maps with rescued marines more than once though, that's intentional.
"Best flash game ever" might be a little extreme, but I thank you for it anyway . I might remake it someday and include a mission editor, but I don't have any time scheduled for that yet.
Great Stuff
I have a couple copies of the board game (with expansion) and a several pounds of the miniatures. You actually improved on the game, I think.
I think you should take things a step further and make more scenarios, and add in the missing scenarios (dropship vs. alien and powloader vs queen).
PS: You're correct (not XenomorphSlayer), it was Hudson, NOT Hicks that said the "one express elevator..." quote. How a "fan" of the movie could get that famous quote wrong, I don't know!!
Awesome game, but I can't get full screen to work which is hard on the eyes.