

The Alien is unable to heal itself from injuries and instead "cocoons" marines if the Alien dies a cocooned marine will become a new Alien, allowing the player to continue from that location. The player must fight numerous marines and Predators through various sublevels of the ship in order to reach the Queen. When playing as the Alien, the player's objective is to rescue the Alien Queen who is being held captive on a Predator spaceship. Each player character has its own scenario, weapons, and abilities. The game is a first-person shooter taking place on flat plane environments with two-dimensional sprites. All civilians (and USCMC recruits) in the area are evacuated and the colonial marines go into defensive positions to protect the base.


The USS Golgotha, a United States Colonial Marine Corps training space station built by Weyland-Yutani, detects a Predator ship and a Space Jockey Boneship landing on the station.
