4/5 ★ – jdraco's review of Aliens: Alien 2.

(Arcade) Now this is what I’m talking about. Going from playing Q*bert to playing this game is such a breath of fresh air It’s like my entire body has been cleansed of all the bullshit that Q*bert brought upon me and now I can finally become one with the universe And it feels amazing And playing this game feels pretty damn amazing too Basically this whole game consists of you just shooting the absolute fuck out of aliens It’s awesome Your character just holds a big ass machine gun and you shoot every single alien in sight There’s no ammo that you have to manage, there’s power-ups that can give you stronger weapons It’s just nonstop action and I love it My only minor complaint though is that sometimes there are enemies that can’t be hit with a regular standing attack So you have to use the other attack which is a crouching shot And this alone isn’t inherently bad and I don’t hate it, I just don’t like how most of the time it kind of halts your gameplay and momentum to a stop Because you can’t move and shoot will your crouching, so you just have to kind of crouch in one spot and clear out as many enemies as you can But then sometimes, while you're crouched and can’t move, enemies can swarm you, and you can’t really do anything about it because, again, you can’t move while you're crouched It isn’t terrible though and it doesn’t ruin the game for me by any means, but I think just being able to crouch walk would’ve definitely made the game better As it stands though this is a fantastic arcade game that’s full of nonstop action, it has solid gameplay And again you get to shoot the absolute fuck out of aliens, so what more could you really as for? Also for a game that came out in 1990 it’s pretty damn impressive too Because there are a few moments where it’s almost like a first person shooter and you have to fight things that are in front of you Which I mean, I guess that they also kind of did this in Contra But it’s much better executed in this game in my opinion and it feels very satisfying to play And overall this game in general just feels very satisfying to play and I’d say that it’s definitely in the upper echelon of arcade games that I’ve played So I’m feeling, a 4/5