
Retrospectively, Stephen Kleckner of GamesBeat wrote positively about Alien 3: The Gun, including it in his "must-play" list of Alien titles and opining it is better than 2006's light gun game Aliens: Extermination. The game was well-received by video game critics. In Japan, Game Machine listed Alien 3: The Gun on their Novemissue as being the most-successful upright/cockpit arcade unit of the month. The game ends when the players defeat the unidentified man, only to be met with more troops. Levels are based on sets from the film and take players through the Mess Hall, Infirmary, Lead Works and more. The action begins with an escape from the spaceship Sulaco before proceeding to the surface of Fiorina 'Fury' 161, where players must take down hordes of Aliens as well as an army of Weyland-Yutani Corporation troops sent to retrieve specimens by any means necessary. One or two players can take the role of a pair of United States Colonial Marines in an altered version of the film's storyline. Power-ups, such as a flamethrower, are available to the player throughout the game. The game is played across seven levels, and features various boss enemies, including a giant facehugger. The player controls a space Marine who is tasked with reaching the prison colony featured in the film, in order to rescue prisoners who are under attack by the Aliens. Both cabinets have lighting synchronized with in-game actions to add another layer of excitement to this game.Alien 3: The Gun is a rail shooter in which the player uses a large light gun, modeled after machine guns featured in the Alien films, to kill various Alien creatures such as facehuggers and soldiers, unlike the film, which featured only three Aliens (including a facehugger, an alien runner and a queen chestburster). The impressive looking deluxe model comes standard with a massive 55” HD LCD display and a 42” mounted gun version is also available to fit any locations space limitations. The lighted multi-layer Alien topper will draw in players from across the room. This game is CoinUp enabled with online leaderboards that will drive players to come back over and over again. Plus the force feedback guns with clip reload and alternate fire button add a depth of realism to the shooter. Cutting-edge graphics and sound will make players feel like they are in the middle of all the action. Epic battles with enormous Xenomorphs will have player’s heart and guns pumping. Fortunately, you are there to fight back to try to send the invaders back to the stars.Īliens Armageddon is a fully-licensed Aliens product with four chapters of intense game play. As U.F.O.s descend from the skies, it begins to look as if humanity is doomed. Only you can save earth from the invading extraterrestrials in Raw Thrills’ latest shooter, Aliens Armageddon! Based on the popular Sci-Fi franchise, become a part of the action to help battle invading extraterrestrials after all of Earth’s major cities get wiped off the map. Through scripted events, you can pickup grenades and other special weapons. You can find smaller 42″ game cabinets though that do feature mounted guns that resemble pulse rifles. Marines in the game use a modern AR-15-style weapon rather than the classic Pulse Rifle as this is what’s mounted on the 55″ game cabinets. The standards are there like Facehuggers, Chestbursters and Warriors but you also have to battle Weyland-Yutani engineered creatures like flying Xenomorphs and a flying Queen. The game features a variety of different Xenomorphs. You have to fight your way to an escape ship and leave Earth behind. Wreckage from the ship falls onto Earth along with Xenomorphs. One of the crew members activated the ship’s self-destruct mechanism just before he was killed. The story begins on the research vessel Capella that has been infested with Xenomorphs. The arcade game was re-released in 2017 for Alien Covenant with new cabinet artwork and lighting but the game was still the same. Aliens Armageddon is a ‘on-the-rails’ shooter where you play as a Colonial Marine and features four different chapters. Aliens Armageddon is a 2014 arcade game that was first revealed at IAAPA 2013 in November 2013 and was released to arcades in 2014.
