Alien Breed 2: Assault

Alright, I finished this one,as the first one is acompetent twin stick shooter, yet again is not gonna blow your mind, let me summarise the differences I noticed to the first game: - enemies are a bit tougher and a bit faster, this is good, - The visaula are improved , which is nice - The weapons, more or less, the hyper gun is amazing , I love it , the rocket launcher not so much, utterly useless in close quarters and only viable in a boss fight Things that didn't improve: - ambushes everywhere, the ship is more bugs than met, but waht really drives me mad is that they pop up when you are trying to loot. - Useless "containers" everywhere: 2/3 times the corpses and lockers have nothing in them, hardly the reward you would expect from getting ambushed while trying to loot - the story and the dialogue, or what little there is, becuse most of the talking is subtitles only and when you are busy mowing down enemies, fortunately the waypoint system elimiantes the need of paying attention , gotta love how the protagonist sounds suprised that the ghost ship is manufactured by the same corp he works for, you knoiw, the ghost ship with a similar design to yours, with the same operating system, that is somehow compatible with "current"tech even tho is centuries old - The upgrade system: upgrades are expensive, but well worth it, the catch, you can only have one upgrade in each weapon at a time, but the real kicker is that if you want to swap upgrades you have to buy the old one back, why? because the game hates you (go for damage and the healing boost on item upgrades) - The perforrmance issues are exactly the same as the first, after 40 minutes the game starts stuttering until it crashes, the fix: set affinity to a single core, worked on the first game, works on this one too Overall, the game is a hard sell, it doesn't excel at anything, but is not terrible , 3/5 thanks for the giveaway

ots ok for what it is, good to pass some time but the constant fixing stuff as a progression system is getting old

They actually make use of the 3D enviroment compared to episode 1!. In the first level, then they forget about it rather fast, and go back to the same flat same level copy&paste enviroments. But they seem to have fallen in love with fixed camera sections, which is the only reason a certain bossfight poses any kind of threat. Except of falling asleep doing the exact same thing trice. Overall an improvement over episode 1, with a way higher bodycount, getting closer to true AB game, but the same "quest" design that starts to get grating.

Not only is this an almost carbon copy of the previous entry, it includes incredibly bad design decisions that make the overall game frustrating and repetitive. The camera for one is the same but in certain sections of the map they force the camera to be statically zoomed into your character where attempting to rotate the camera does not work through the Q/E keys, who the hell thought this was a good idea? The whole point of moving the camera is to make sure we get a good view in order to aim, now in these sections we can't even do that. Gameplay objectives are worse where we almost always have to assume that once you touch a computer it will explode... or something else will explode causing us to go across the map to touch another computer which will explode... then we repeat the cycle, it is incredibly rare for a computer to not explode and just work. Just a bad repetitive game overall.