Alien Hominid was a run-and-gun Adobe Flash recreation initially launched in 2002 by way of influential web site Newgrounds. It then obtained a vastly improved HD launch on varied consoles between 2003 and 2007.
That HD re-release is now being re-released, and this time it is heading again to PC. It will have upgraded graphics and weekly and month-to-month leaderboards when it arrives someday this 12 months, alongside a sequel.
Alien Hominid HD may be performed solo or in two-player native co-op, with three problem choices, and half a dozen mini-games. All of which makes it appear unchanged from the mid-’00s console launch, however now it is on Steam.
The unique Alien Hominid was created by Tom Fulp and Dan Paladin. Fulp was additionally the creator of Newgrounds, an internet site to which anybody may add Flash video games and animations. Alien Hominid’s launch helped popularise Newgrounds – which in flip was influential upon web tradition – and in 2003 Fulp and Paladin co-founded a video games studio, The Behemoth. The Behemoth have since launched Fortress Crashers, BattleBlock Theater, Pit Individuals, they usually’re now engaged on Alien Hominid Invasion, a full sequel to their authentic Flash recreation.
Invasion, which will even be launched on Steam, has four-player native or on-line co-op, and it appears prefer it has much more selection in its operating and gunning. There was a demo out there throughout Steam’s Subsequent Fest final month, however I missed it.
Should you do not wish to anticipate the Steam re-release and do not have your Xbox 360 useful, you possibly can nonetheless play the unique model of Alien Hominid by way of Newgrounds, with the magic of Flash emulation.