My Take:

Alien Breed was a Better Version of Alien Syndrome. It was a top down scrolling platform/puzzle.action game. It is Dripping with Atmosphere from the Movie Aliens. The game ROCKS as Single player but it is AWESOME with 2 player coop mode. You could upgrade weapons, buy health, maps & keys. There was even a built in game after you log into base computer non other than PONG.

Celebrity Review by the Games Music and Sound Creator

Title Alien Breed
Publisher                  Team 17
Game Type Shoot-em-up
Players 1-2
Compatibility All
Submission Allister Brimble (Celebrity Reviewer)

Review
Alien Breed was one of the first games to make use of a 1MB Amiga. Previous
games had been limited by the standard 512K. Team 17 knew they could only
produce Alien Breed for a 1MB machine and decided to take the risk,
hopefully even persuading more users to upgrade.

Alien Breed was designed by Rico Holmes and programmed by Andreas Tadick. It
was very much based on the arcade machine, Gauntlet, except with Aliens and
graphics based on the film "Alien". You had to perform a series of tasks,
whilst building up your weaponary in order to keep the Aliens at bay.
Almost a 2d DOOM.

Rico Holmes did a great job with the graphics using the Amiga's colour
palette to maximum effect. I wrote the music and sound effects and learnt a
lot in the process. The Alien death sound effects were actually sampled
newly born kittens, mutated on my sampler with an explosion added!

I had great fun playing Alien Breed, and even more fun when Alien Breed
'92 was released. This was the same game engine but with greatly improved
levels and missions. Later on, Alien Breed 2 and Tower Assault were
launched, both of which were great and again improved on design and
gameplay.

This is one of my all time favourites and deserves credit for being one of
the first 1Meg only games.

Alien Breed - 8/10
Alien Breed '92  - 9/10

Title Screen While Loading Game

Mission Briefing (different one for each level)

In game Player taking Damage notice the Details

Upgrading Weapons are a MUST!

It may not directly say it's based on the Movie Aliens, but they look alot like Face Huggers!

You must find Keys and Medkits as well

And yet more Weapon Upgrades

Flamethrower is my Weapon of choice for Close Encounters

Level Exit Platform, Fire Doors can shut to keep the bad guys at bay.

Cut-scene when going from 1 level to the next

In Game Computer Access, you will not incur damage when logged on

Main Menu for Station Computer, Notice the simulated  Burn-In (KEWL)

Weapons Supply Menu

Destroying a Fire door so the bad guys cant come through

Another Beauty Shot in game screenshot

In Game Video Footage

Download this Video HERE