Lt Ripley arrives on Super Nintendo to smash the Alien with a vengeance for our greatest pleasure.

After being stranded on the planet Fiorina 161, you are the only survivor... along with one of your Alien buddies who will soon reproduce. In the movie, Riplay only had one Alien to worry about. But here, action game requires, you will have a whole gaggle! Fortunately, they are much less tough than the one in the film.

It is therefore a fairly free adaptation of the feature film, but never mind, since the game holds up, both in terms of production and pleasure of the game. We find the oppressive atmosphere of the film. The world crossed is only a series of gloomy and high-tech prisons. This unfortunately brings some redundancy, but you get used to it. To reinforce the claustrophobic side of the title, the developers at Probe Entertainment had the idea of obscuring the edges of the screen. The effect is rather successful.

To progress, you will have to complete different missions, which are often identical: rescue prisoners, clean up the hordes of warlike monsters and secure the perimeter by welding the doors. Unfortunately, all of this becomes too quickly redundant, and therefore inevitably quickly boring. We end up railing against the levels that are too monotonous in which we get lost too easily and monsters that constantly respawn.

Without being able to claim to compete with Metroid (for the exploration side) and Probotector (for the action side), Alien 3 remains a good little game, rather well done, on Super Nintendo.