Alien Breed

a.k.a. Alien Breed: Special Edition

created and published by Team17 in 1991, running on Amiga OCS

type: maze, shooter
genre: Science Fiction, Arena shooter
series: Alien Breed
perspective: bird's-eye
player options: single player, shared-screen

languages: dan eng fre ger ita

4.3/5

Lemon Amiga

Official description

The year is 2191 and the galaxy stands on the brink of war, only the Interplanetary Corps maintain the uneasy peace. IPCC Miraculous was heading back for Federation HQ after six months on routine patrol around the Intex Network. Nothing had happened and nothing ever did in this god forsaken place.. Crew members Johnson and Stone were glad to be going home. Then came the orders to check out a remote Space Research Centre which had failed to transmit on any of the Federation wavebands. ISRC-4 was situated near the red-giant Gianor and was the last place they wanted to go...As the crafts retros fired and the craft began it’s approach path,Johnson and Stone prepared for duty, not knowing quite what to expect. There was something strange about the eerie silence that shrouded the station, something was obviously very wrong..Slowly the crafts wings folded and the craft gently docked into shuttle bay 2, they opened the airlocks and walked straight into the midst of an Alien Breed...

Featuring....

* Fantastic graphics and sound running at Arcade speed (50 Frames/Sec)

* Simultaneous 2 player option

* Bewildering array of atmospheric sound and speech effects

* Written exclusively for the expanded Amiga (1 Meg or more)

* In-game computer system featuring extra weapons, maps and utilities

* Scene-setting story disk included, featuring amazing ray-traced graphics

* Puzzles, traps and a host of mean, ugly and nasty Alien creatures

CU AMIGA (90%) "Awesome graphics...Superb sound fx...Blistering 1 Meg Alien Inspired Shoot’em up...Team 17 have come up with a winner."

THE ONE (90%) "The speech, sound effects and in-game graphics are all excellent.. .Alien Breed is a classy product, very professional and very enjoyable... no shoot’em up fan should be without it."

# 2024-01-24 22:03:01 - official description

Comment

Influenced by the Alien movies (somewhat obvious from the alien design), especially Aliens.

Sanguine # 2008-12-18 14:17:58

Technical specs

display: raster

Editor note

Alien Breed: Special Edition and Qwak, 1994, for the CD32. Danish, Ebglish, German, Italian, French

zerothis # 2018-03-12 23:52:34

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External reviews (13) - average: 86.3% - median: 89%

review source		issue	date	score
ACE (Advanced Computer Entertainment)	uk	50	1991-11	875/1000	87%	view
Amiga Action	uk	27	1991-12	87/100	87%	view
Amiga Computing	uk	44	1992-01	91/100	91%
Amiga Format	uk	29	1991-12	74/100	74%
Amiga Power	uk	8	1991-12	82/100	82%
C&VG (Computer & Video Games) (085-173)	uk	120	1991-11	91/100	91%	view
CU Amiga	uk	20	1991-10	90/100	90%
Consoles + (001-155)	fr	32	1994-05	89/100	89%
Génération 4 (001-082)	fr	39	1991-12	92/100	92%
Génération 4 (001-082)	fr	66	1994-05	82/100	82%
Joystick	fr	22	1991-12	91/100	91%
Tilt 39-113	fr	98	1992-01	15/20	75%
Zero	uk	27	1992-01	91/100	91%