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Aliens Online

Aliens Online was a massively multiplayer first person shooter released on the GameStorm subscription service. Players could choose to wield a pulse rifle as a member of the Colonial Marines, or stick to the…

16 April 1998

Aliens Online is a shooter developed by Mythic Entertainment, released 16 April 1998 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Aliens Online is

Aliens Online is a shooter game developed by Mythic Entertainment and released in 1998. It was published by Fox Interactive. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on Source.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Maps ranged from a loose reproduction of the colony from Aliens, to a derelict spacecraft with an Alien hive in the lower levels. Every map had cramped air ducts or sewer pipes that the Aliens could speedily, and usually securely, make use of - with hatches that allowed the player to drop onto unsuspecting marines and rend them with claw and tail attacks. Marines carried a selection of long-range firepower based on the weapons in the film. A lone marine only had access to a pulse rifle, pistol, shotgun, and motion tracker (deployed like a weapon, and not part of the HUD). Up to four marines could also band together in a fireteam, unlocking heavy weapons like the flamethrower and the…
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) and Single player.

Where it sits in the Alien series

Aliens Online is the 20th of 76 entries we hold in the Alien series. It arrived 2 years after Alien Trilogy. The next entry was Sci-Fi Pinball in 1999.

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What it launched against

Aliens Online launched on 16 April 1998, within three weeks of Sanitarium and Parasite Eve.

Released around the same time: Sanitarium, Parasite Eve.

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When did Aliens Online come out?
Aliens Online was released on 16 April 1998 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

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