Alien Blast: The Encounter
Alien Blast: The Encounter is a first person stationary shooter similar to Made By Kiddies' previous title, Air Raid. On any given level, the player mans one of the defensive turrets, with a 360 degree view of…
Alien Blast: The Encounter is an arcade, released 27 January 2003 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Alien Blast: The Encounter is
Alien Blast: The Encounter was released in 2003. It was published by Russobit-M. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
On planet Rexus, located on the far edge of the galaxy a distress call has been sent out. When an Allied Forces freighter arrives to investigate they find that everyone on the planet is dead or has left and the full content of the distress call is a warning to stay away from the planet. Unfortunately it's too late for the Allied Forces investigators, as a large force of alien creatures is spotted incoming on the radar. The only hope is to man the few remaining turret weapons left behind on the planet and destroy all waves of the attack.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Alien Blast: The Encounter holds a critic score of 25 out of 100. That places it above 2% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2003 averaged 69, so it scored 44 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Alien Blast: The Encounter launched on 27 January 2003, within three weeks of Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, SimCity 4, Disgaea: Hour of Darkness and NASCAR Racing 2003 Season. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, SimCity 4, Disgaea: Hour of Darkness, NASCAR Racing 2003 Season.
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