Just call it a poorly optimized, past inspired game, which kind of misses the mark.Alien Rampage, Alive Sharks, Alone in the Dark, Dark 2, Alpha Man, Amazing Learning Games With Rayman, Ancients, Animal Quest, Ant Run, Aquanoid, Arcade Volleyball, Arctic Adventure, Arcy Argo Checkers, Aspetra, Astro3D, AstroFire, Atomic Tetris, Axia, BACKLASH, Balloon Challenge, Banyon Wars, BassTour, Battle for Atlantis, Beneath a Steel Sky, Beyond Titanic, Billy Kid Returns, Bio Menace, Blackthorne, Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold, Blast Chamber, Blind Block Man Block-man, Blood, Body Blows, Bolo Ball, Boppin', Brix, Bubble Pop, Bust-A-Move 2: Edition, Capture Flag, Cargo Bay, Castle Catacomb, The Catacomb Abyss, Catch, If You Can! Caves Thor, ,The Chaos Engine, Charlie II, Duck, Chinese Chopper Commando, Cipher, Cisco Heat, Clyde's Revenge, Color Wizard, Command & Conquer, Commander Keen Ate My Babysitter!, Goodbye, Galaxy!, Invasion Vorticons, Cool Spot, Corncob 3D, Corridor 7: Alien Invasion, Cosmo's Cosmic Crates, Crazy Eights, Shuffle, Crusher, Crusher Crystal Caves, Cyberboard Kid, Cyberdogs, CyberMage: Darklight Awakening, Cybersphere, Cybersphere Plus, C圜lones, D/Generation, Dangerous Dave, Ages, Death Rally, Descent, Descent Detroit, Dinosaur Predators, Disney's Aladdin, Beauty and Beast, DND, Doom, Dotso, Doubolo, Dragons Bane: Mah Jongg Drum Blaster, Duel 2000, Duke Nukem, Nukem Dungeons Grimlor, Grimlor Lich, Necromancer's Domain, Earthworm Jim, Jim EGA Coloring Book, Trek, Electranoid, Electro Epic Baseball, Pinball, Evasive Maneuvers, Even More Incredible Machine, Extreme Flight Amazon Queen, Framed, Fuzzy's World Miniature Space Golf, Galacta, Galactix, Gargoyle Medieval Pack, General Budda's Labyrinth, Genewars, Gobliiins, Gobliins Prince Buffoon, Goblins Quest 3, GobMan, God Thunder, Gold Hunt, Googol Math Games, Review, Grand Theft Auto, Heartlight PC, Heretic, Hero's Heart, Heroes, Heros I: Sanguine Seven, Hexen: Hexxagon, Highway Hunter, Hocus Pocus, Holiday Lemmings 1994, Hoosier City, Hubie, Hugo Whodunit?, III, Jungle Doom!, Hugo's House Horrors, Hyper 3D In Pursuit Greed, Search Dr. Well, I can go on and on, but bottom line is this: this game, while on purpose or not is just unpolished, it is playable and fun, that dumb kind of fun, but you'll never be sure if it is you who's being poked in the eye or the games of the past. Yeah, I get that older games used recycled models over and over again and that their animations were poor, but well, to demonstrate that you're just using these models as a conscientious nod to the past, at least bring in a few monsters that are a bit well endowed graphically, just to counterpoint your overuse of the same models over and over again. And at times it manages it, while other times it just plain gets it wrong. Maybe shooters were not yet in their graphical prime in 97, but they sure were capable of lots more advanced graphics, but then again, Alien Cabal doesn't try to be modern, it tries to be silly and to poke a finger at the tropes of these older games. I don't endeavor to say that I understand the motivation of the developers to make use of a graphical style that was long dead by the time this game was released, but it might just be that the developers were looking to create something that will entice those that loved Doom, Wolf 3D, Hexen and all those early 3D shooters of yore. Oh, the nostalgia for Doom can create monsters!Īlien Cabal is a look back on what used to make classic FPS experiences in the 90s so enticing and yet so silly.