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Throughout the course of the game I lost a total of 13 marines.Įach marine in the game has their own idle animations, character design, nickname, and distinct personality. I lost all but one of my original squad by the end of the first boss fight, but had found three new recruits to take their places within the next hour. You will never recover that character, but you can find other marines hidden throughout the game that can take their place. You begin the game with four marines, and when you lose one, he’s gone forever.

The only way to recover a dead character is to turn off your system and start from your old save. One element that separates Infestation from Metroid – and most games in general – is that when you die, you die permanently. Checking in at save points regularly is vitally important, more so here than in a Metroid. You do often return to one large area to explore further and further as you gain new items from the aforementioned levels. Infestation lacks the size of Metroid, and certain areas are broken apart as separate levels that cannot be revisited. You will build a map as you explore, find and upgrade weapons, and track down items like a welding gun or flashlight that allow you to explore areas that were previously inaccessible. The game is not quite a Metroid clone, but it borrows liberally from that franchise.

You discover the aliens fairly quickly, and from there you’re fighting for survival while exploring the game’s environments. Your mission begins innocently enough: check up on a ship that the fleet has lost communication with and hope that nothing has gone terribly wrong. Don’t let this one pass you by, especially if you have been craving a 2D Metroid experience, because this may be the closest you will get for quite some time.Īliens: Infestation puts you behind the guns of an ever-expanding group of marines as they attempt to stifle a xenomorph outbreak. It’s releasing just as the 3DS is stepping into the spotlight, and may get unfairly ignored as a licensed game. Aliens: Infestation just might be one of those titles.

During the twilight days of every console, handheld or otherwise, some of the best games get released only to go by undiscovered.