But you'll probably be too busy admiring (and fighting) the menagerie of mechanical or mutant spiders, birds, lobsters, and other monstrosities to gawk at the scenery.

The side-scrolling environments are lush and throw out every visual effect in the Genesis console's book of tricks. Now, some 12 years later, however, Sega has taken the necessary steps to correct that oversight by making Alien Soldier available as a download for the Wii's Virtual Console service.Įach of the game's 25 stages consists of a short area populated with scrubby enemies, followed by a set piece encounter with a large, often multisegmented beast that has multiple attacks and a massive health meter. Sadly, players in North America weren't invited to the party. And what a hurrah it was: a visually intense 2D action game made up almost entirely of boss battles. For Megadrive (aka Sega Genesis) owners living in Japan or Europe, Alien Soldier was their last hurrah before the 16-bit consoles gave way to the 32-bit Sega Saturn and Sony PlayStation.

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