Publisher(s) Leading Edge Games Genre(s) Role-playing | Publication date 1990 | |
Designer(s) Barry Nakazono
David McKenzie | ||
Aliens Adventure Game is a role-playing game published by Leading Edge Games in 1990.
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Description
Aliens Adventure Game is a science-fiction system that emphasizes combat between human Colonial Marines and the space horrors from the movie Aliens. The game utilizes cardstock miniatures with plastic stands that are moved around on a map.
Publication history
Aliens Adventure Game was designed by Barry Nakazono and David McKenzie, and published by Leading Edge Games in 1990 as a boxed set containing a 32-page book, a 4-page booklet, a large color map, three cardstock sheets, plastic stands, and a die.
Reception
Kevin Barrett reviewed Aliens Adventure Game for Challenge #57. Barrett began by commenting: "Leading Edge Games took a great universe with cool hardware and messily glued it all to the Phoenix Command rules set. The tech-candy movie we all drooled over through 15 viewings got a roleplaying butcher job." He concluded his review by saying: "Despite all I've said, I still like this product – mostly because I liked the movie. If nothing else, the source material is a good read and should give you plenty of ideas for military missions, whether you're running Aliens, MegaTraveller, Twilight: 2000 or Mechwarrior."
Lawrence Schick comments that the game is "heavily position-oriented, almost a boardgame", and that the combat rules "are similar to Living Steel, but simpler and smoother, thank goodness".