First Impressions: Alien Breed 2: Assault

Another game I recently completed was Alien Breed: Impact but at the time I didn't really have a lot to say about it. It's a good fun game when you just want to spend and hour or so shooting some aliens. It looks and sounds great but there's not much else to it. still sometimes that's what you need and Alien Breed did it well. It's only a short game and it was only cheap on Steam as well. It was obvious from the start the should this make a profit then a long line of sequels would appear. Of course that happened before I'd even finished playing the first game when Alien Breed 2 & 3 were released. It turned out to be even more overt than that with the end of the Alien Breed: Impact story basically being a "To Be Continued" moment.

So I've now moved on to Alien Breed 2: Assault which picks up with you already on the alien spaceship directly following the end of Alien Breed: Impact. This game has been created using exactly the same engine and tools as the first and is basically more of the same but with a green HUD instead of blue. I've only played the first level so far but there were a couple of minor differences here. There seems to be more scripted events happening in this one and more camera pans to show the results of your actions. There are also more sections with a non-standard fixed camera angle which alters the game play from the normal top down setting. It's been good so far and I'm looking forward to finishing it and eventually playing Alien Breed 3: Descent.