• Home
  • News
    • All News
    • Movies
    • Comics
    • PlayStation 4
    • PlayStation 3
    • Xbox One
    • Xbox 360
    • PC
    • Indie
  • Reviews
    • All Reviews
    • Movies
    • PlayStation 4
    • PlayStation 3
    • Xbox One
    • Xbox 360
    • PC
    • Indie
  • Previews
  • Exclusives
    • All Exclusives
    • Columns
    • Opinions
    • Satire
    • Comics
    • Off-Topic
    • Guides
    • YouTube
  • Tech
By Timothy on 29 Sep, 2011: published about 4 years ago
Loading Comments

Indie Review: Alien Hallway

Indie Review: Alien Hallway

Alien Shooter is a game that aims to introduce some strategic depth while keeping everything else to a minimum, including the actual quality of the game itself unfortunately

Quick Rating
  • Worth The Time?
    If you like clicking for no good reason then yeah
  • Things Loved
    It had an escape button.
  • Things Hated
    No reason to play it, no appeal whatsoever
  • Recommendation
    Not a chance. It's just some game and is void of any character at all. It's so average I'd rather play a bad game, just to introduce something more than meh into my life.
  • Name: Alien Hallway
  • Genre: Strategic Action (if that exists)
  • Players: One
  • Multiplayer: Nope, because then the game might be fun and we wouldn't want that
  • Platforms: PC
  • Developer: Sigma Team
  • Publisher: Sigma Team
  • Price: $9.99
  • Reviewed On: PC

In all of my articles and reviews, I always seem to give my life story and of what amounts to about 10 and a half pages of background before talking about the game or making my point. This time, and thanks to the Alien Hallway being extremely demotivating, I’m going to jump straight into it; I’m not really in the mood to chat. So, and in my personal opinion, Alien Hallway is mediocre at best. I’d like to end it there, I’d like to tell you not to buy it and instead do something more enjoyable like sawing off your arm. This being eGamer though, a site that encourages its reviewers to give even the bad games more than a turd tossing and subsequent conclusion, I have to write more. So, my unbiased hat on, let’s do this.

  • Popular Articles
  • Recent Articles
    • You’ll Be Able To Play (Expensive) PS2 Games On Your PS4 Now | 2 months ago
    • Jessica Jones Disempowers Its Male Characters And The Effect Is Refreshing | 2 months ago
    • Hell Is 30 000 Deathclaws Tearing Through Boston And It’s Glorious | 2 months ago
    • Sony Santa Monica Is Teasing Something Truly Strange | 2 months ago
    • Goodbye | 2 weeks ago
    • EGMR Awards 2015: The Inevitable Wrap-Up | 1 month ago
    • EGMR Fun Awards 2015: Most MLG Moments | 1 month ago
    • EGMR Fun Awards 2015: Manliest Game | 1 month ago

    Look, in all honesty, Alien Hallway isn’t that bad, it’s more or less just some game. Its problem is that it’s so mediocre that it’s void of any character that it might have had as a bad game; something we could laugh about, get angry over together and have rave to each other about about. Instead, Alien Hallway will fade into oblivion, where it should remain. Alien Hallway just does everything wrong. It looks dated, cheap and void of any real effort. It’s not that ugly but again, it just looks so plain and unappealing that it’s hard to find a reason to even bother watching the screen as I play. The music and sound effects don’t help either; they’re so meaningless you might as well turn them off because you’ll hardly notice their presence. The only thing the aesthetics of Alien Hallway do is make this game more difficult to play. That’s mostly because you now have to block your eyes as well as ears as you play the game. I suppose mute and the monitor off will suffice.

    My second problem with Alien Hallway is the gameplay. The game involves an enemy base that spawns waves of aliens that run in your direction on a mission to destroy your base. Your only defence is to build soldiers that run at the enemy’s base; fighting through and defeating the alien waves as they approach your enemy’s base. It’s sort of like Pax Britannica (another, yet much better, indie game) where you do not control your units but rather their construction and they do the work for you. It’s supposed to be strategic and allow for varying amounts of each unit, that balance out and work together to defeat the enemy. As you will soon realise though is that Alien Hallway is devoid of any real balance and it leaves the one last hope for the game dead in a. The problem is that all you need do is spam whatever the strongest unit you have is; that is until you get the grenadier whereby you just spam that. You can literally close your eyes and click the build grenadier button until you win. Maybe that’s why the graphics is so mediocre, because you don’t need any visuals to play the game. The other aspect of gameplay is choosing upgrades after each round with which you can affect your units and other details within each round. This could have been a somewhat redeeming factor for the strategic side of things. Unfortunately, and as seems to be the case with just about everything in this game, most of the upgrades are pointless and just upgrading your grenadiers damage and unit build time is all you need to make your grenadier spam effectively unbeatable. There is also an artillery strike you can call in but it’s weak and never really gives any reason to upgrade it.

    What makes this game so much worse is that Sigma Team, the developers of Alien Hallway, are also responsible for creating Alien Shooter 1 & 2 and Zombie Shooter 1 & 2; two series that are a whole load of fun and that kept me entertained for hours when I first played them. I’m not sure what inspired, or rather where the lack of inspiration came from when Sigma Team made Alien Hallway. When compared to their previous games it feels like one gay made it in his basement while bored and sleep deprived. Really, there are so many other games I’d recommend; I’d even go so far as to recommend rubbish like Superman 64. At least then there’d be some entertainment in the frustration of the game. In fact, rather than playing Alien Hallway, play Alien Shooter. Unless you’re hugely into something as brain numbing as clicking on what should be a blank screen, avoid this game.

    Look at all these pretty icons you can click:

    • Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)
    • Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
    • Click to share on Google+ (Opens in new window)
    • Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)
    • Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)
    • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
    • Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)

    The Verdict
    50
    100
    Avoid this and play something else. It's unfortunately that sort of game. It's average and meh, and that's not what we're looking for.

    Click Here, Read More. It's Easy.

    • 26 Oct, 2015
      Review: APT Is Portal-Inspired Puzzle Platforming Done Deliciously
    • 3 Nov, 2015
      Brawlhalla Fights Its Way Into Open Beta
    • 9 Nov, 2015
      Helldivers Will Descend On To Steam This December
    • 26 Oct, 2015
      Review: Sublevel Zero Will Drag You Down

    Name: Timothy Biggar
    Location: Durban
    Position: Previous Author

    Timothy has published 89 posts. Read all of Timothy's posts.
    • Email Me
    • My RSS Feed
    • Follow Me On Twitter
    ZergNet
    FANS
    FOLLOWERS
    1262
    SUBS
    636
    Daily News. Sign Up Now.
    Offensive #23: Paragon Interrupt

    Hot Right Now

    • You’ll Be Able To Play (Expensive) PS2 Games On Your PS4 Now
      You’ll Be Able To Play (Expensive) PS2 Games On Your PS4 Now

    • Jessica Jones Disempowers Its Male Characters And The Effect Is Refreshing
      Jessica Jones Disempowers Its Male Characters And The Effect...

    • Hell Is 30 000 Deathclaws Tearing Through Boston And It’s Glorious
      Hell Is 30 000 Deathclaws Tearing Through Boston And It̵...

    • Sony Santa Monica Is Teasing Something Truly Strange
      Sony Santa Monica Is Teasing Something Truly Strange

    • Corsair Katar Review: A Splendid Dagger To The Heart
      Corsair Katar Review: A Splendid Dagger To The Heart

    • Life, The Universe And Gaming: A Survivor’s Guide To Fallout 4 With A Partner
      Life, The Universe And Gaming: A Survivor’s Guide To F...

    • Review: Fallout 4 Is Fantastic But Far From Flawless
      Review: Fallout 4 Is Fantastic But Far From Flawless

    Reviews

    • Review: Bulb Boy Is A Charming Exploration Of The Macabre Review: Bulb Boy Is A Charming Explorati...
      Marko | 50 Views | 85/100
    • Review: Star Wars Battlefront Is A Brief Ode To The Classics Review: Star Wars Battlefront Is A Brief...
      Bracken | 90 Views | 75/100
    • Review: Guitar Hero Live Evolves The Rhythm Game Genre And Will Halt Productivity Review: Guitar Hero Live Evolves The Rhy...
      Marko | 42 Views | 80/100
    • Review: Fallout 4 Is Fantastic But Far From Flawless Review: Fallout 4 Is Fantastic But Far F...
      Caveshen | 234 Views | 70/100
    • Review: Viscera Cleanup Detail – Unsatisfying Menial Labour Review: Viscera Cleanup Detail – U...
      A-G | 97 Views | 60/100

    Previews

    • Preview: It’s Attack On Wallet This Steam Holiday Sale Preview: It’s Attack On Wallet...
      Paul | Regret | 342 Views
    • Need For Speed Wants To Make You Do Sweet Drifts, Bro Need For Speed Wants To Make You Do ...
      Marko | Vin Diesel | 160 Views
    • The Siege Of Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six The Siege Of Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six
      Paul | Counter-Strike | 100 Views
    • Everything We Can Tell You To Expect In Halo 5: Guardians Everything We Can Tell You To Expect...
      Caveshen | Guilty Spark | 243 Views
    • Hands-On: Star Wars: Battlefront Has Potential, But Needs Serious Work Hands-On: Star Wars: Battlefront Has...
      Azhar | Spaaaaaaaace! | 598 Views

    Columns

    • Life, The Universe And Gaming: 2015: Muh Oppressions, And Other Things
      Life, The Universe And Gaming: 2015: Muh Oppressions, And Other Things

    • Abyssal Pixels: Role-Playing – The Absurd Versus The Faithful
      Abyssal Pixels: Role-Playing – The Absurd Versus The Faithful

    • Life, The Universe And Gaming: A Survivor’s Guide To Fallout 4 With A Partner
      Life, The Universe And Gaming: A Survivor’s Guide To Fallout 4 With A Partner

    Indie

    • Gone Home Officially Coming To Peasants
      Gone Home Officially Coming To Peasants

    • Review: Bulb Boy Is A Charming Exploration Of The Macabre
      Review: Bulb Boy Is A Charming Explorati...

    • RWBY: Grimm Eclipse Emerges From Shadows On To Steam Early Access
      RWBY: Grimm Eclipse Emerges From Shadows...

    • Latest Mighty No. 9 Trailer Shows Off Some Shiny New Gameplay
      Latest Mighty No. 9 Trailer Shows Off So...

    • Review: Viscera Cleanup Detail – Unsatisfying Menial Labour
      Review: Viscera Cleanup Detail – U...

      Interact

    • Submit a Tip
    • Suggest a Feature
    • The Team
    • Review System
    • Archives
    • Competitions

      support

    • Contact
    • Site or Article Error
    • Advertising
    • Competition T&C
      Creative Commons License

      stay connected

    • RSS Feed
    • Twitter
    • Twitter - Full Feed
    • Facebook
    • YouTube
    • Email Newsletter

      newsletter

      Enter your email address to receive our newsletter for news, articles and updates.
    Copyright © 2016 — #egmr. All Rights Reserved.
    A member of the Blotch Network with Clutchd Automotive.
    loading Cancel
    Post was not sent - check your email addresses!
    Email check failed, please try again
    Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email.