9 Pioneering Video Games EVERYONE Forgets
1. Alien Resurrection
As with Jurassic Park, the Alien franchise has had its fair share of cherished and chastised movies and video games. Like its 1997 cinematic counterpart, 2000’s Playstation-exclusive Alien Resurrection fell somewhere in the middle upon release.
Developed by Argonaut Games and published by Fox Interactive, the FPS followed the plot of the film, with a cloned Lt. Ellen Ripley and a bunch of mercenaries fighting Xenomorphs as they flee the USM Auriga.
Overall, it’s not a very memorable experience; however, its far-sighted incorporation of the DualShock’s analogue sticks certainly merits esteem all these years later.
After all, its twin-stick control scheme – in which you use the left stick to move and the right stick to turn and aim – arrived a year before Halo: Combat Evolved popularized it.
By association, then, Alien Resurrection implicitly paved the way for just about every FPS that followed, including the Metroid Prime, Resistance, Metro, Left 4 Dead, and Rage series.