| Alien 3: The Gun | |
| Sega | |
| Sega | |
| 1993 | |
| Lightgun shooter | |
| singleplayer | |
| n/a | |
| Arcade | |
| CPS-2 | |
Contents
Release
Release date for the game Alien 3: The Gun (Arcade);
North America 1993
Plot
Based on the 1992 film Alien 3 and set in Fiorina 'Fury' 161 Class C Prison Unit 12037154, you play as Ripley with standard but limited marine weapons.
This is a different game from the 1992 Alien 3 for the Sega Master System which was also developed by Probe and ported to other systems, and different from the Game Boy title developed by Bits Studios.
Differences from film
The character starts aboard the Sulaco and descends in the EEV but unlike the film isn't in a stasis unit.
There are many more aliens of all sizes and the battle starts immediately, the aliens though are from the film.
A tank like enemy appears.
Prisoners are not called by name.
An Unidentified Man appears and asks for the alien specimen just before W-Y Commandos appear.
Game modes
You can play in the following modes;
Singleplayer, co-op.
Single Player/Co-op
Stage 1 Inside of the space ship "Sulaco"
From inside a hanger gameplay continues through the different corridors and then into the waiting EEV, a Super Face Hugger must be defeated to continue.
Stage 2 (Act 1) Fiorina "Fury" 161
Emerging from the landed EEV, gameplay continues across the surface and towards the installation, just before reaching it a large Iron Tortoise must be defeated.
Stage 2 (Act 2) Fiorina "Fury" 161
Through the surface installation and pass a perimeter fence, soon infrared lighting is activated as you continue, the route leads into the installation and a large Alien must be defeated.
Stage 3 Prison
As you enter you go along many corridors into a lift which then leads on to level B2 and into the canteen. Through the canteen avoiding prisoners as they escape and across a gantry into further corridors and were a Super Dog Buster must be defeated.
Stage 4 Tunnel
As the tunnels are being sealed the aliens are being funneled towards the area they set alight, more corridors lead into a vent and out onto a gantry and an Alien must be defeated.
Stage 5 Blast Furnace
Through the furnace and along gantries, multiple aliens and synthetics attack as prisoners escape. Finally the last Alien appears and must be defeated.
Stage 6 Final Struggle
Killing the alien with molten lead leads into a room where a company man asks for alien samples, he becomes the enemy and must be defeated, as soon as he dies the room fills with W-Y Commando.
Bosses
Super Face Hugger
Iron Tortoise
Alien
Super Dog Buster
Alien
Alien
An Unidentified Man
Weapons
Pulse Rifle
Grenade Launcher
Flame thrower
Equipment
Powerups
Enemies
Alien bots
Motorised Weyland-Yutani alien bots
Xenoborgs
Weyland-Yutani guards
Colony inmates
Face Huggers
Aliens
Unidentified Man
Aliens
Aliens
Face Huggers
Chest Bursters
Runners
Praetorian
Vehicles
Iron Tortoise
USS Sulaco
EEV
Publishers
Sega Corporation, usually styled as SEGA, is a multinational video game software developer and an arcade software and hardware development company headquartered in Ota, Tokyo, Japan, with various offices around the world.
Developers
Sega Corporation, usually styled as SEGA, is a multinational video game software developer and an arcade software and hardware development company headquartered in Ota, Tokyo, Japan, with various offices around the world.
Achievements
A military rank as award.
Awards
Enemies
Prisoners
Damage
Score