Alien Resurrection for Dreamcast

[predxeno]

Wasn't AVP1 originally supposed to be a Playstation 1 game?

[Ratchetcomand]

I remember reading that a PS1 port was plan but was never made since the PS1 was unable to support the graphics at the time. AVP1 used Quake II engine IIRC?

Back in 1997, The game was plan to be released on the Saturn as well.

http://www.unseen64.net/2008/04/10/alien-resurrection-saturn-unreleased/

[Salt The Fries]

I don't want to make a separate thread for that, but I WANT that TPP Alien Resurrection beta BADLY and I will do ANYTHING to get it. IT MUST BE GIVEN TO ME. Someone has to have some "working" copy, a record of sorts...

[Ratchetcomand]

I still find it hard to believe it took them three years to release this game. I seen some movie games get push back a lot, but three years? It's almost as bad as theme releasing the Bad Boys game like a year after Bad Boys II came out.

[Ash 937]

Only one Aliens-based game was ever released on the Dreamcast...and it wasn't official.  Just found this.

[razeak]

Whipping out a CD-R stat.

I would love to know how far along the WiiU copy of A:CM got and did they produce any materials for it.

[SiL]

Replaying the PS1 version at the moment and this is without a doubt the best FPS shooter the franchise ever produced. It still holds up and has a lot of great mechanics even more technically superior games lack. The chestburster mechanic should have become the standard for Alien titles after this, it's f**king brilliant.

Except the ladders, they can suck donkey dick.

[The Old One]

I played it myself about a year ago, absolutely excellent isn't it?

[[cancerblack]]

Any good emulations of it for PC around?

[SiL]

None that I've seen, but I haven't looked in over a decade.

[SM]

I got stuck at the bit with the Queen and all the electrical sparks yonks ago and haven't tried since.

Had to watch a walkthrough for something else, and noticed you can get past the electrical sparks when they're not electrically sparking.  I was too busy panicking when I played it to notice.

[SiL]

I first played the game some time around 2003 and it took ... several attempts to realise I can actually walk backwards and shoot the first Alien you encounter at the same time.

[lost dragon]

Fox Interactive Dreamcast Titles In Peril?

We can only look forward to monkeys and vampire-slayers... and even they might
not happen.

March 20, 2001

Last week, we reported that Fox Interactive, now focusing as a developer of
video games rather than publisher, was reevaluating its Dreamcast line-up of
games for 2001 and while we couldn't confirm what titles might get cancelled,
IGNDC has learned that Fox Interactive has officially stopped Dreamcast
development of Alien Resurrection (no real surprise there) and World's Scariest
Police Chases. And what of the fate of Fox Interactive's remaining Dreamcast
games, Planet of the Apes and Buffy The Vampire Slayer? That's not really Fox
Interactive's call anymore.
"Planet of the Apes and Buffy The Vampire Slayer are still in development,"
states Angela Edwards Emery, Director of PR for Fox Interactive. "However, with
Fox Interactive's new development direction, bringing these titles to the
Dreamcast is pending the decision of the publishers for both respective
titles."
Fox Interactive is currently negotiating publishing deals for both games and
will hopefully make an announcement before E3. Once a publishing deal has been
finalized, it is up to the publisher if either title will make an appearance on
the Dreamcast. We'll keep you updated with any new developments to this story."

I'm pretty sure Martin Piper answered the Q.regarding DC Alien Resurrection when i had a brief email chat with him years back,but since that interview has now been lost, i can't remember what he said.

Have dropped him a quick line.

And here is Martin Piper's reply (can't thank him enough for this) :


A Sega Saturn version of Alien Resurrection was being worked on, as far as I recall no Dreamcast version.

The Saturn version failed when the programmer was found to be wasting time by trying to hand code everything as one huge assembly file. It failed to progress beyond a technical demo, not a surprise really.

[The Old One]

Interesting stuff thank you.