Well, don’t get any funny ideas – because in practice Alien Breed isn’t like that at all and there’s one thing which steadily undermines what should have been Impact’s core appeal its poor pacing.Īs if it were aiming to be some deeply scary thriller, Alien Breed: Impact surprisingly rations the number of enemies you fight for the first three levels, having them only emerge in sudden, quickly despatched bursts. So, on paper, that all sounds well and good and if you’re likely getting an impression of Alien Breed: Impact as a darker, top-down take on Serious Sam. Thus levelled up, you’re better able to take the fight to the aliens. It’s here that weapon upgrades come in handy, as you can collect credits littered throughout the game to improve your guns or buy extra ammo from certain save-game terminals that are dribbled through the levels. Later on though, when the bigger foes start striding onto the field, things can get a bit more tricky… In the first half of the game things it’s easy to be fairly nonchalant about the combat as, although the aliens come in swarms, they tend to go down fairly easy and you can withstand a fair bit of punishment.
There are several weapons at your disposal, from paltry pistols with infinite ammo right up to flamethrowers and laser weapons, as well as several types of support item – grenades, armour, health kits and so on. From the top-down perspective, WASD controls player movement while the mouse is used for aiming an old fashioned input method which can take a bit of getting used to.
Alien Breed: Impact ImpressionsTo be fair to Alien Breed: Impact, at least the combat is pretty good – though the difficulty curve is dangerously erratic.
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