Enemy Infestation (1998)
Genres:Strategy, Real Time Strategy (RTS)
Themes:Action, Science fiction
Game modes:Single player, Co-operative, Multiplayer
Story:Set in the 24th century, a group of unsuspecting colonies are attacked by a swarm of aliens who want to preserve their race. Now it's up to you to save the colonists and stop the aliens from taking over the planet.
Enemy Infestation is a squad-based RTS similar to games like Gender Wars and Commandos. The game is seen from an isometric view similar to Diablo and Crusader. Game missions range from killing off all the aliens, saving colonists and alot more. Players will have the ability to modify their squads weapons, which range from lasers to missile launchers. The game supports multiplayer up to 4 players on LAN and Internet. It even supports single player co-op.Show more
One of the best part of this game is that you don't have to play every level, as the game will unlock 3 levels after the one you have just completed. For example if you finish level 5, you can play levels 6, 7, and 8. If 7 is too difficult, you can play level 8 and unlock levels 9, 10, and 11. You do have to play the final level in order to see the ending though.
The challenging part is the various weapons/items on the map would have a different effect each time you loaded a level. So you could play level 5 one time and the Electrolaser does Medium Damage. The next time you play level 5 the Electrolaser will do Multiply effect (hit one alien, it turns into two aliens). The time after that the Electrolaser has the Shrink effect (Alien -> Grub -> Cocoon -> dead). So even the same mission will require different tactics.
I would like this game on GoG as the CD is starting to fail and the game no longer installs on Win10.
One of the first pc games I got from a Goodwill store that I loved playing as kid but have long since misplaced the disk for. For a quick overview this game was more or less the prototype for Fallout Tactics given they share the same dev team but with more an Aliens feel to it. You control a squad of people on every stage on a space station that has been infested with alien life forms akin to Xenomorphs in a way. Granted they also have some random weaknesses or strengths against typical objects on a lvl so one lvl a fire extinguisher may deal a lethal effect while on another it might very well cause an enemy hit with it to multiply. I do remember hitting a way as a kid, and getting stuck but for what it's worth I was a young teen when I got my hands on this but I'm sure it did have some challenging stages if only due to limited healing or the weapon rng working against you.
Got this game in an old "Todo a 150 pesetas" store, back when I was young. Loved playing it with my father and sister. Would be awesome to be able to play it again.
Many types of characters, each with their own skills; weapons whose effects are unknown in each level until you test them in an alien (maybe they hurt them, maybe they evolve, maybe they multiply!); different maps with enviromental hazards as no oxygen or fire.
Hope I can play it again!
I played the demo to death when I was younger, I loved the 'Aliens' vibe to it, and for the longest time I had forgotten what this game was called. I would love to see it on here GoG just to be able to play the full game.
Anyone who enjoyed Star Trek: Away Team, might like this, it plays like an earlier version of that.
The Demo was so hard and gave me Nightmares. My Mom could not be convinced to buy it for me as a child...........................now I come back as a manchild.
One of the best games I have ever played. Started played demo as a child in nineties and then got full game for Christmas. After so many years I sometimes play this game. For example I have finally found out how to play multiplayer missions. But on latest operating systems this game don't work so well so little bit optimization couldn't harm.
A gruelling challenging but exceptionally entertaining game. I recall rushing to get one of the squad to find the Big Yellow Loader - precisley the one from the classic Aliens film that our Ripley uses to smash up the Alien Queen.
It wasn't just alien style enemies that were brutal - to x-com levels - that stood in your squads way. There were different environmental hazards that blocked any advance. See a pathway on fire? Go find a Fire Extinguisher and solve the problem. This game for me was way ahead of it's time. I'ts a shame I feel that it has been long forgotten but it deserves to be immortalised and bought back into the limelight. An unknown classic that paved the way for the likes of Fallout:Tactics and any top down Squad based strategy that followed. Each squad member was uniwur witht heir own skills. Tactically this game challenged every single one o fus that gave it a go.
Various Items were subject to the RNG gods from playthrough to playthrough. A weapon on level 2 may do high damage, yet in the next playthrough it may only do medium damage. This game was seriously tough and would present a challenge to any modern gamer.
Unfortunately modern gaming has somewhat dumbed down a lot of what was part of the old skool gaming charm.
Those of us who gamed a while ago in the Commodore 64 and Mega Drive days (golden era for me) will relish the challenge and enjoy it as we did all those years ago. A genre defining game (in my opinion) like this deserves to be near the very pinnacle of Good Old Games and should be immortalised for all to see and experience.
Played the demo from a CD magazine called "Launch". Was pretty fun, but never saw it in stores, and I always remembered it but could never find it again. Fast forward 23 years later I finnaly find out what it was called (thanks AI!), but no way to play it legally or easily! This is a well loved hidden gem that can't be played anywhere - makes it the PERFECT addtion as a Good Old Game!
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