Aliens: Thanatos Encounter
Prepare for horror and fright beyond your wildest nightmares, as you step into the world of ALIENS: Thanatos Encounter. The terrifying creatures made famous by the popular ALIENS movies come to Game Boy Color…
Aliens: Thanatos Encounter is a shooter developed by Crawfish Interactive, released 30 April 2001 on Game Boy Color.
What Aliens: Thanatos Encounter is
Aliens: Thanatos Encounter is a shooter game developed by Crawfish Interactive and released in 2001. It was published by THQ. It is available on Game Boy Color only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Prepare for horror and fright beyond your wildest nightmares, as you step into the world of ALIENS: Thanatos Encounter. The terrifying creatures made famous by the popular ALIENS movies come to Game Boy Color in a totally new adventure. You play as one of five space marines who are sent to explore an abandoned freighter. Naturally, the situation is far worse than your squad expected the ship is completely infested with thousands of vicious aliens. In this single-player shooter, you'll make your way through the various sections of the ship in 12 missions. Discover the solution to the mystery of the aliens' reappearance through the cinematic cutscenes you'll see throughout the game. You can…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Alien series
Aliens: Thanatos Encounter is the 25th of 76 entries we hold in the Alien series. It arrived 7 months after Alien Resurrection. The next entry was Aliens versus Predator 2 in 2001.
What it launched against
Aliens: Thanatos Encounter launched on 30 April 2001, within three weeks of Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec, Flower, Sun, and Rain, Tropico and Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare.
Released around the same time: Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec, Flower, Sun, and Rain, Tropico, Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare.
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