june gloom on 30/11/2009 at 09:30

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Aliens lends itself more readily to videogames and their mechanics, but the best games take a few pages from the Alien playbook for good scares.

icemann on 30/11/2009 at 12:57

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And ofcourse you have the zillion and one Aliens TCs / mods for various fps games, but I already know you`ve played the majority of them dethtoll.

lost_soul on 30/11/2009 at 16:34

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I play Tremulous frequently and I think it is great fun. You just can't beat running up on the side of the walls and biting a human. :) Each team (humans and aliens) is responsible for maintaining a base. Killing the other team won't win you the game: you have to destroy their spawn points too. For aliens, this is the eggs. For humans, it is the telenodes.

I especially love it when the bases are scattered around the map, because it forces players to move and fight, rather than sit behind their defenses. One time we aliens destroyed a human base, but kept the reactor standing. We then waited for the humans to set up another base across the map. After this, we destroyed their reactor (which we were holding hostage), causing their defenses to stop working. :) Not many games allow tactics like this.

lost_soul on 30/11/2009 at 18:47

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There are tuns of servers, but they are usually either heavily populated, or empty. I usually play on the "dretch storm" server. Anytime I want to play (in the day or middle of the night), there are always plenty of people online. This game is sub-100 megs too, so you could put it on a thumbdrive. :)

There is the occasional lame person who will join a team and destroy the team's base intentionally, but this doesn't happen that often. They usually get banned, either via a vote or an admin.

Ulukai on 30/11/2009 at 23:39

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Sorry, I'm taken.

I have an (http://www.blackcatgames.com/asv1/) excuse to have seen Aliens about a dozen times, though :cool: