29/07/2020
Alien Shooter is an isometric top-down shooter video game developed and released by Russian studio Sigma Team in 2003. It is the first title in the Alien Shooter series to be followed by Alien Shooter: Vengeance. Alien Shooter has two expansions, Fight for Life and The Experiment, each of which has five new levels and include the conclusion to the Alien Shooter story.
The characters have 4 stats: Strength (), Accuracy (better accuracy and damage), Health and Speed. Players can start with a male character (stronger and has more health) or a female one (faster and more accurate).
Alien Shooter is presented in top-down view (3/4 perspective). The game consists of 9 levels with increasing difficulty. The objective of each level is to kill all the aliens. To achieve this, the player needs to access all areas of the level (by reactivating power generators, destroying walls, disabling force fields, etc.) and kill the alien creatures. Later levels have teleportation devices, which spawn enemies infinitely and can only be destroyed by special explosives scattered throughout the level.
The killed aliens drop pickups, consisting of money, health and ammo among other items. Between levels, players can purchase more powerful weapons in a shop. It is also possible to purchase permanent upgrades to the 4 stats. Temporary upgrades can be purchased including "Lives", Body Armor, Attack Drone, etc. Most items in the shop can also be found in the levels.
After contact is lost with an underground laboratory and several failed military assaults, the protagonist is sent to investigate. Upon infiltrating the complex, the player finds it overrun by alien creatures. The cause is discovered to be the experimental teleportation devices. Aliens have been pouring through the teleporters and are amassing within the laboratory's confines. As the protagonist goes deeper into the complex, more numerous and powerful aliens are encountered. Eventually, the protagonist successfully destroys all the aliens and teleporters in the laboratory.
The final cutscene shows a single alien creature escaping the laboratory and running away.