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Re: Lets talk: Alien Breed
« on: November 12, 2010, 01:25:13 PM »
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Which was your fave of the series?


Each installment has its beauty. "Alien Breed" has a great atmosphere but it was too buggy and sometimes too difficult but beatable. When you managed to do it, you came to the conclusion that it was too short. The player needed something more and there wasn't.

"Special Edition 1992" enhances the game by a set of new levels and new adventure waiting for you. It is decent follow-up or rather an extra disk to the original game.

"Alien Breed 2" for me was too colourful and by that the atmosphere in it was killed. The game was a bit too artificial, though there were many good ideas which were expanded later.

"Alien Breed Tower Assault" was the best in the whole 2D series. It has a great atmosphere and what is not common, the non-linear gameplay. There were 276 routes you could take to complete the game!

"Alien Breed 3D" was also a very good game. Graphics were a bit pixelated but the game again had that something that you just did not mind the way it looked.

"Alien Breed 3D 2" by many people was laughed at. They did not like it but it was also great. A very good successor of "AB3D".

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Which ones have you beaten (no cheats or trainers)?


I have beaten all the 2D "Alien Breeds" without any cheats or trainers. I could not beat 3D editions.

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Fave weapons?


In 2D rebounders of course. Flame throwers were useless. 3D changed the meaning of weapons. Rockets and grenades were good for guardians and a blaster was good as a regular weapon. I missed rebounders in 3D versions.
 

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Re: Lets talk: Alien Breed
« Reply #1 on: November 12, 2010, 01:29:42 PM »
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If you have to cheat at a game to play it then your missing the point of playing it in the first place... :)


By constant failure people become frustrated and irritated. Some people just enjoy the game simply playing it. They do not take it as a synonim of struggling with it. Trying harder does not work for everybody. They use trainers and cheats to enjoy while others might enjoy trying harder.
 

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Re: Lets talk: Alien Breed
« Reply #2 on: November 12, 2010, 01:35:10 PM »
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I liked, and completed, Tower Assault. The problem was that by playing Tower Assault first, going and playing the earlier games where you couldn't backup and shoot was annoying as hell.


Yes, this is true. It is not recommended playing Tower Assault first when you haven't played and wish to play AB, ABSE'92 and AB2. You can easily get accustomed to the reverse walking and shooting.
 

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Re: Lets talk: Alien Breed
« Reply #3 on: November 16, 2010, 12:48:27 PM »
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Well the Wii port has one advantage then.


Original version with backing up is not the same ;)
 

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Re: Lets talk: Alien Breed
« Reply #4 on: November 16, 2010, 12:51:22 PM »
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@Franko

Might be worth trying a different port of 2 of Doom. There's a big difference in speed between some of the Amiga versions. ADoom seems to be a favorite for 68k (not sure if theres a ppc version though).


There is PPC version of ADoom.

Some ports (eg. DoomAttack) have settings to enable suitable c2p conversion. He may be running the game on fast CPU but uses some not suitable c2p mode thus making everything slower/jerky.