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Alien Shooter (Russian: Alien Shooter: Начало Вторжения) is an isometric, top-down shooter video game developed and released by Sigma Team, a Russian games development studio. Released on May 18, 2003, it was initially available on Microsoft Windows, iOS, and Android. The game's conclusion was realized in two expansion packs, both consisting of five-levels and released in 2014: Fight for Life, released on June 14, and The Experiment, released on September 22.
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| Developer(s) | Sigma Team |
| Publisher(s) | Sigma Team |
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| Platform(s) | Microsoft Windows, Android, iOS, PlayStation Vita |
| Release | May 18, 2003 |
| Genre(s) | Top-down shooter |
The sequel, Alien Shooter: Vengeance, was released in 2006. In June 2015, Sigma Team and co-developer 8floor released a PlayStation Vita port of the game.[1]
On January 22, 2020, Sigma Team released Alien Shooter 2: The Legend, a reboot of the previous sequels with updated graphics, gameplay, and new content.[2]
Alien Shooter is presented in a top-down, third-person view (3/4 perspective), and takes place across nine levels of increasing difficulty. The main objective of each level is to eliminate all the aliens. To do so, players must access all of the areas that the level has to offer (by completing tasks such as reactivating power generators, destroying walls, and disabling force fields, etc.) and removing the alien threats within. Later levels feature teleportation devices, which spawn enemies indefinitely, and can only be destroyed by special explosives scattered throughout the level.
Characters have four stats: Strength, Accuracy, Health, and Speed, and players have the option to play as either a male or a female character. Male characters have higher strength, and higher health stats, whereas female characters have improved accuracy and higher speed.
Once exterminated, alien enemies drop loot consisting of money, health, ammo, and other items. Between levels, players can purchase upgraded, more powerful weapons in the shop, along with permanent stat upgrades. Temporary upgrades can also be purchased, including "Lives", Body Armor, Attack Drone, etc. Most items in the shop can also be found scattered throughout the levels.[3]
In the early year 2030, scientist from M.A.G.M.A Energy Corporation created the bio engineering creatures by mixing both DNA animals and alien cells from a meteorite they've been found. Those creatures have been successfully created such as mutant frogs/spawn frogs, multi-armed bipeds/raptors, giant spiders, and tank rhinos. However, something bad happens, the aliens plan to escape from their cage while using a teleporter device as their plans. Protagonist's task to eliminated the aliens inside of abandoned experiment lab places. As the protagonist explores the lab, the root of the problem is revealed to be a malfunction with an experimental teleportation device. Somehow, the aliens have managed to flood through en masse, killing the scientists and guards who were working in the lab. Delving deeper into the complex, the protagonist encounters ever more powerful aliens and realizes that all the teleporters must be destroyed. The game reaches its conclusion when the protagonist has eliminated all of the aliens and destroyed all the teleporters in the laboratory.
The final cut scene shows a single female spawn frog escaping the laboratory and running away. The story is continued in the first expansion, Fight For Life, and concluded in the second expansion, The Experiment.
In 2012, GameSpot gave Alien Shooter a 6.4 out of 10 rating, writing, "While the game makes good on its promise of giving you aliens to shoot, the result is very repetitive."[4]
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