'At the end of Alien Odyssey, I'd already started working on Alien graphics - at that point we were calling it AVP because that's what we thought it would be,' Dave Moss tells Eurogamer. Brothers Tim and Dave Moss, programmer and artist respectively, knew two things, though: it was based on Aliens and it was being made for Fox. When pre-production of Resurrection started, a handful of the Alien Odyssey team were ushered onto the new game without any idea as to what it would be about. Argonaut was a disorganised company, a statement that has been uttered by many members of the Resurrection staff, and no game would prove that more than this. Development started at an appropriate time in the film's development pipeline, but the game wouldn't see commercial release until October 2000 - three years after the film's release and two platforms short of its target. Pre-production on Alien Resurrection would begin at the start of 1996, directly after the release of Alien Odyssey and the cancellation of the now-released Star Fox 2. Jean-Pierre Jeunet's take on the franchise is an undoubtedly messy and ultimately weird piece of filmmaking - albeit one that has its fair amount of enjoyably schlocky moments - but the most interesting stories around it lay not with the film, but in British developer Argonaut's video game tie-in of the same name.

From both consumer and fan standpoint it felt like nothing more than corporate money-grubbing, dragging one of film's only (and greatest) female protagonists back from the dead for a quick buck. November 1997 brought with it one of the most reviled films in the Alien franchise: Alien Resurrection. For every Alien Isolation there is an AVP: Extinction, for every Aliens arcade game an Aliens: Colonial Marines. In video games, titles based on Alien and its sequels follow this see-saw quality bar.

In film, we have the colossal heights of the 1979 original and the shockingly mundane Alien vs Predator 2: Requiem. Film, books, comics, video games, a board game and even children's action figures - the Alien franchise is infestatious.īut the Alien franchise is a rollercoaster ride of quality. In the 39 years since Ridley Scott's timeless sci-fi horror chest-bursted onto cinema screens, a steady stream of Alien-related content has emerged in nearly every form of media. Regardless of your age, you probably know Alien.

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