14 DAY TRIAL // Aileen Harding, an Earth Command Trooper tasked with investigating a strange alien spacecraft is the main figure of the game. She and her robot sidekick have to out-riddle puzzles or rescue hostages from the incredibly detailed and horrible aliens, while the game unveils a top-down shooting experience with a little taste of RPGish attributes to go with it. It's a much better installment of Sega's old Alien Syndrome ported to the Sega Master System and Amiga system.
According to Gamespot, starting a single-player game, you'll have to choose one of six classes to fit your preferences and the game will progress accordingly. Futuristic weapons like laser rifles, grenade launchers, chain guns and flamethrowers are sure to be found and every other big foe or boss that you kill will leave more and better items to use to your advantage, as the game progresses and gets more difficult.
The 1987 version of Alien Syndrome was about one or two players controlling two soldiers named Ricky and Mary. Players had to fight their way through large eight-way scrolling levels rescuing their comrades who are being held by aliens. After they had rescued a certain number of hostages, the exit would open and they could pass through it in order to fight the end-of-level guardian. If this monstrosity was defeated, they could move onto the next stage. That's pretty much it.
The two games have very little in common. The PSP version of Alien Syndrome has great visuals and sounds, intriguing enemies as well as intelligent, weapons of unimaginable destruction and mind-twisting puzzles offering at least 20 hours of gameplay. As far as multiplayer is concerned, 4 players can cooperatively start killing the ugly bastards that come in numbers equally proportional with the number of players, so don't think you'll be killing them any faster by calling reinforcements.
The game is due in May for the PSP system and work is currently being carried on for a Nintendo Wii version of Alien Syndrome as well, so keep your fingered crossed.