Invasion From Beyond (1998) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Invasion From Beyond

The game features more than 30 missions of futuristic action with many secret levels, ships and weapons. Your prime directive is to kill all invading alien forces. However, whenever Earthlink Command wants you…

76 31 December 1998

What Invasion From Beyond is

Invasion From Beyond is a shooter game developed by King of the Jungle and released in 1998. It was published by GT Interactive Software. It is available on PlayStation and Web browser.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The story for Invasion From Beyond is based on the golden age of B-Movie science fiction thrillers, and goes like this: farm workers have been abducted and crop circles were discovered in farmlands outside Washington, D.C.. The locals' insults towards superstitious fears ("Slap an Alien") were a welcome party for the Martians ready to strike. You are a fully qualified Earthlink and must pilot your ship to stop the alien invasion by manipulating the ground-based firepower of Earthlink Command and prevent the aliens from taking over our beloved planet Earth.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Invasion From Beyond holds a critic score of 76 out of 100. That places it above 59% of the 3,305 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 1998 averaged 70, so it scored 6 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Invasion From Beyond launched on 31 December 1998, within three weeks of Suikoden II, Super Smash Bros., Crazy Taxi (1999) and Mario Party. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Suikoden II, Super Smash Bros., Crazy Taxi (1999), Mario Party.

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