Alien Breed: Impact
Alien Breed Impact is an explosive science fiction arcade-shooter that resurrects a much revered franchise with an epic story, swarms of highly intelligent alien enemies, high-impact weapons, highly detailed…
Alien Breed: Impact is an arcade developed by Team17, released 3 June 2010 on PlayStation 3, Linux and PC (Microsoft Windows). It currently starts at $1.69 at GameBillet. The main story takes about 8.8 hrs to finish.
What Alien Breed: Impact is
Alien Breed: Impact is an arcade game developed by Team17 and released in 2010. It is available on PlayStation 3, Linux and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 3.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Alien Breed Impact is an explosive science fiction arcade-shooter that resurrects a much revered franchise with an epic story, swarms of highly intelligent alien enemies, high-impact weapons, highly detailed and rich environments; all implemented with superb technology in a state-of-the-art gaming experience. In addition to the thrilling single-player campaign mode, the game also offers a relentless, action-packed, online two-player co-operative battle mode.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 13 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Alien Breed: Impact holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 17% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2010 averaged 70, so it scored 10 points below the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 8.8 hrs. At its current cheapest price of $1.69, that works out to about $0.19 per hour of the main story.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 2.0+ GHZ Single Core Processor, 1GB RAM and NVIDIA 6800+ or ATI Radeon X700+ Video Card. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 2GB.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $1.69 at GameBillet, 83% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Alien Breed: Impact launched on 3 June 2010, within three weeks of Red Dead Redemption, Super Mario Galaxy 2, Alan Wake and Xenoblade Chronicles. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Red Dead Redemption, Super Mario Galaxy 2, Alan Wake, Xenoblade Chronicles.
Official trailer
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