Alien Hominid (2004) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Alien Hominid

They've got your spaceship and you will blow up anything in your path to get it back. Completely hand-drawn high-definition graphics, coupled with old-school game play, results in ultimate mayhem and hours of…

66 21 May 2004

What Alien Hominid is

Alien Hominid is an indie game developed by The Behemoth and released in 2004. It was published by O3 Entertainment. It is available on Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2 and Xbox.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Alien Hominid is a run and gun video game developed by The Behemoth and first released as a Flash game on the multimedia website Newgrounds on August 7, 2002. It was originally developed in Adobe Flash by programmer and Newgrounds founder, Tom Fulp, and animator and artist, Dan Paladin. An expanded console version was released on the PlayStation 2, GameCube and Xbox across 2004 and 2005. A port for the Game Boy Advance, developed by Tuna Technologies, was released in 2006 for PAL regions. A high-definition version titled Alien Hominid HD was released for the Xbox 360 via Xbox Live Arcade in 2007. Another remaster, Alien Hominid HD, was released for Windows, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One and…

Description from Wikipedia · source

How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action, comedy and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Single player and Split screen.

How it was received

Alien Hominid holds a critic score of 66 out of 100. That places it above 26% of the 5,098 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2004 averaged 70, so it scored 4 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Alien Hominid launched on 21 May 2004, within three weeks of The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay, Thief 3: Deadly Shadows, Thief: Deadly Shadows and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay, Thief 3: Deadly Shadows, Thief: Deadly Shadows, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.

Cheats and codes

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Official trailer