Alien 3: Genesis vs SNES

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Originally Posted by TheEdge

Genesis does

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what nintendo don t

like making a good alien 3 game

It's funny. Both conversions are good games in their own right; and yet the film is pants...

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Originally Posted by The Jackal

It's funny. Both conversions are good games in their own right; and yet the film is pants...

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lol ain't that the truth.

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Originally Posted by acdc

what nintendo don t

like making a good alien 3 game

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I approve this quote :!:

Thumbs up Soldier! Knowing is half the battle

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Originally Posted by NeoVamp

I think thats more to blame on the Snes then on the game, the Snes could be notoriously slow with certain games,

Thats probably why most Sega games play better, because the Console is just faster.

the Snes & Megadrive should have had a baby, gaming could have been saved!

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The GeneSNES? Or the MegaNES?

Sorry for bumping an old thread, but I'm still umming and aahing about whether or not to get this game for the MD. It always annoyed me that the Game Gear version had better graphics for the flame thrower than the MegaDrive had.

For the the megadrive version was better. There was more shooting & it felt more like the films when you were shooting (even though the SNes version looked better).

Thats why i went for the MD version when i made my wallpaper of the game recently..
http://hgutl.com/alien-3/

The Snes version is better by a country mile, graphically,Sound and atmosphere wise too.I think the MD version is poor and is even bettered by the Master System version which plays slightly better and the ripley sprite is better on the sms version too.But the worst thing of all with the Sega versions is the way aliens materialize out of the stone floor to attack you which is quite frankly lame.

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Originally Posted by Joe Redifer

If I wanted to listen to a movie I'd watch a movie. I don't like my games trying to sound like movies. It's pathetic at best. Why try to sound like a different genre altogether?

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Meh, I rather like cinematic styled scores in games . . . at least when it's fitting to the game style. Orchestral-styled "cinematic" arrangements in Air/Space combat sims are a classic combination that work very well IMO. For other genres . . . kind of hit and miss TBH.

For Alien 3, the style of the SNES music doesn't really matter, since Matt Furniss's compositions/arrangements are just so awesome that it blows that crap away regardless. :p


Oh, but how about Alien 3 SMS vs NES? ;)
Look like all 4 games were developed by Probe too. Furniss did the SMS music too . . . awesome my SMS standards too. Not sure about the NES version . . . definitely has that Euro-Chiptune style, but I'm going to say it's not Furniss. (has a different feel to it)

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Originally Posted by smurfted

There was more shooting & it felt more like the films when you were shooting (even though the SNes version looked better).

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Except the movie the game is based on, it didn't have any shooting at all :P.

^Only at the very end, after the alien died.

I have the NES version on my wanted list, now.

Has anyone here played it? I imagine it's is like the Genesis version, only less-so.

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Originally Posted by MrMatthews

Has anyone here played it? I imagine it's is like the Genesis version, only less-so.

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Pretty much. Just different layouts, and you don't have to save the captives, you just have to make it to the exit before time runs out. It's pretty decent, but nothing special.

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Originally Posted by The Jackal

Pretty much. Just different layouts, and you don't have to save the captives, you just have to make it to the exit before time runs out. It's pretty decent, but nothing special.

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SMS game seems to be more directly tied to the Genesis one. (music wise too with Matt Furniss's stuff)

I played both Alien 3 (also Game Boy one too!) and the Megadrive version was much more fun inmo. While Snes has GREAT sound and graphics, the game is boring as hell after two or three missions, where Megadrive is really fun and had the scary element of the time running out. (Was very well done when times reach zero)

I liked intro of the SNES game a lot, but the rest was highly forgettable. No meaningful music was the main deal breaker. "Atmospheric" usually equals crap for me, and this time it was the case.