Alien 3 (SNES)

How I'd sum up this game: Actually closer to what people wanted than the movie itself.

Bias alert:  I'm a huge Alien fan.

Good, that's out of the way.  I like this game.  It isn't great, but I have fun with it.  It is mission based, like a bunch of side quests that take place on the prison facility (fix pipes, rescue prisoners, weld passages).  The action is fun, the guns are cool, and of course we get the aliens.  However, you encounter more aliens in 5 seconds than the entire move.  But isn't that what we want?  Lots of aliens?  James Cameron thought so, and his take on aliens worked out good in my book.

2 problems:  Side quests are repetitive, and no major boss battles.  Pros:  Aliens.

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