Alien Virus

Alien Virus is a video game in the adventure genre developed by Trecision S.p.A. and published by Nova Spring originally released in 1995. It is currently playable on DOS.

Alien Virus is the first adventure game from Trecision, the Italian developer responsible for Nightlong, one of the best adventure games of recent years.

It's one of those adventure games you'd like to like but can't due to bland puzzles and other annoying quirks. You'll want to like Alien Virus because it has so many positives. The plot, for starters, is an interesting sci-fi mystery reminiscent of the Alien movies. Arriving at an outpost on a routine cargo mission, you find it deserted. What's worse, something is stalking the few remaining survivors . . and it won't be long before it detects your presence.

Unfortunately, the game never takes advantage of this promising premise. Instead of searching for survivors and trying to find your enemy, you'll spend most of your time in Alien Virus looking for ways to open countless locked doors. There are non-player characters, but they are few and far between, and the game's static screens, while nicely rendered in SVGA, hardly give the sense of urgency needed to immerse you in the plot. Fortunately, the point-and-click interface is so simple and easy to use that playing the game is not tedious, despite the fact that most of the rooms are very similar, i. e. bland and with nothing to interact with. If the puzzles were more varied and interesting, the game would have been much better.

As it stands, Alien Virus is an average, often boring adventure game that you'll struggle to finish just because you're curious to see how it all ends. Fortunately for adventure gamers, Trecision has significantly improved its performance with each subsequent release.

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