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Alien Breed

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Alien Breed
Alien Breed cover
Developers
Team17
Release dates
DOS 1993
Windows (DOSBox) January 10, 2012[1]
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Top-down view
Controls Direct control
Genres Action, Shooter
Themes Sci-fi
Series Alien Breed
Alien Breed on HowLongToBeat
Alien Breed on IGDB
Alien Breed guide on StrategyWiki
Alien Breed on MobyGames
Alien Breed on Wikipedia
Alien Breed
Alien Breed 1993
Alien Breed: Tower Assault 1994
Alien Breed: Impact 2010
Alien Breed 2: Assault 2010
Alien Breed 3: Descent 2010

Key points

To start the game once in menu, press RShift or the button bound to fire.
The original 1991 version was released only for Amiga, with an updated version on 1992 called Alien Breed: Special Edition 92. The PC version is based on the Special Edition, including all 12 original levels and 6 new levels.[2]
The sound quality of the PC version is inferior to the Amiga version.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Prompts for answers from manual, code wheel, etc.
Manual lookup copy protection. Use DOSBox.
DOS
GOG.com
DRM-free
Bundled together with Alien Breed: Tower Assault. Pre-packaged with DOSBox.[3]
Windows
On the GOG.com version, the copy protection has been bypassed. Type anything and press Enter to start the game.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
DOS
Windows <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
DOS
Windows <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
Windows GOG:
%USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\UnrealEngine3\AlienBreedEp1Game\SaveData\

<path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
OneDrive
Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers.

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
For DOSBox toggle with Alt+ Enter (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
For DOSBox use an unofficial build (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
60 FPS
120+ FPS

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
For DOSBox change the priority background value in the DOSBox configuration file.
Royalty free audio


Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
2 Co-op
Shared-screen.
LAN play
Online play

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DOS video modes

System requirements

DOS
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 3.0
Processor (CPU) 80286
System memory (RAM) 640 KB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Extended memory is required under DOS (or DOSBox) for digitized sound
Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista, 7
Processor (CPU) 1.8 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 File/folder structure within the installation folder reflects the path(s) listed for DOS game data.

References