The next installment of Team 17’s Alien Breed, Alien Breed 3: Descent hits digital stores this coming Wednesday, 17 November. Available on Steam and Xbox LIVE Arcade, the latest entry in the series seeks to bring closure to the most recent trilogy of games. Retailing at $9.99 (800 MSP for the Xbox version), Alien Breed 3 is shaping up to be a pretty great game. For the trailer and a full press release, jump past the break.
Alien Breed™ 3: Descent announced for XBLA and Steam launch on 17th November
Team17’s arcade shooter trilogy concludes in explosive style
London, UK- November 12th, 2010 — Throughout 2010, the Alien Breed™ series has delivered tense moments, frenetic firefights and co-op carnage to gamers across the world. The opening title, Alien Breed™: Impact/Evolution introduced players to the plight of Theodore Conrad, chief engineer aboard the doomed ship Leopold, struggling to regain control of his ship after a collision with a mysterious foreign vessel. Alien Breed™ 2: Assault saw Conrad fighting back, boarding the newly conjoined ship and delivering doses of old-fashioned revenge on its inhabitants. Now, with Alien Breed™ 3: Descent gamers can fight to the stunning conclusion of the latest trilogy from legendary developer/publisher Team17’s Alien Breed™ canon, with the official release date being confirmed as Wednesday 17th November 2010 on Xbox TM LIVE Arcade and for PC, via Steam.
With the Leopold and its unwanted attachment breaching the surface of an imposing ice planet, you have only a few hours to wade your way through flooded corridors and locate the origin of the threat that has so far laid waste to your once proud space ship. For the first time Conrad can venture outside of the ship in the breathtaking hull walk set pieces, and for those trigger-happy shooter fans there are vicious new enemies to fight, including the Electro-Shocker alien and the awe-inspiring final bosses. New armaments are also available in Descent, with the Electro-Link gun allowing for shockingly good crowd control whilst the formidable Project X weapon will tear through anything in its path.
A trailer can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPA89iqRtEc whilst a press kit can be found at the following link: http://www.team17.com/download/alien_breed_3_descent_xbla_pc_press_kit.zip .
Alien Breed™ 3: Descent will retail at the following amount, dependent on region:
| Xbox™ LIVE Arcade | Steam |
| 800 Microsoft Points | UK – £6.99 |
| USA – $9.99 | |
| Europe – €8.99 |
Alien Breed™ 3: Descent carries the following age ratings:
- ESRB rating and any required descriptors: Teen — Animated Blood, Language, Violence
- PEGI rating: 16+ – PEGI Online, Violence
- OFLC rating and any required descriptors: M — Violence
- USK rating: 16 Jahren
About Alien Breed™:
Alien Breed™, recognized as one of the foremost Amiga games ever released, was launched in 1991, developed and published by Team17 Software Ltd. It proved an instant success, with the Special Edition version spending an incredible 33 unbroken weeks at the top of the UK Sales Charts. A sequel was released in 1993 (Alien Breed 2) and a 3D edition, both of which won numerous awards. The well-loved series had lain dormant for 14 years, until December 2009, when it arrived in stunning fashion with the production-heavy ‘Alien Breed Evolution’ on Xbox 360 LIVE Arcade achieving Christmas No. 2 sales position on Xbox 360 LIVE Arcade.
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