Proto:Alien Resurrection

This page details one or more prototype versions of Alien Resurrection.

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Alien Resurrection started development in 1996 as an overhead shooter inspired by the then recent Loaded and announced for a late 1997 release for PlayStation, Saturn and Windows. After a year of work, Argonaut decided to abandon the Loaded approach and the game became a third-person action-adventure game in the vein of Tomb Raider. Following the decision, a portion of the team left the project, frustrated that a year's worth of work was scrapped. Having struggled with the game engine, the third and final change to a first-person shooter came in late 1998. Senior Designer Christopher Smith later said of the decision ""It was a moment where everything went, 'right'. If it remained in the other perspective it would've got cancelled. I'd have put money on that.". The game then ended up coming out exclusively for the PlayStation, three years after the movie that inspired it.

In late April, 2021, a total of 28 builds of the game were released, the earliest build dating back to October, 1998 and October, 2000 at the latest. The first build (from August 8, 2000) came as part of Hidden Palace's Project Deluge on April 17th. A few days later, on April 21st, a developer on the game uploaded 27 additional builds to archive.org.

(Source: Hidden Palace & archive.org)

List of Available Builds

Build Date	File Name	Notes
October 19, 1998	ALIEN4PSX	Third-person.
November 2, 1998	ALIEN4PSX-2	Third-person.
December 2, 1998	ALIEN4PSX(1)	Third-person.
May 12, 1999	ALIEN4E312G	Third-person, build from E3 1999. Four playable levels.
July 14, 1999	ALPHA	Third-person.
August 19, 1999	ALPHA(1)	Third-person.
November 26, 1999	A4V110899	First available first-person build.
December 21, 1999	A4V122199
January 5, 2000	A4V122199
February 2, 2000	A4V26012000
February 4, 2000	A4V02042000
February 26, 2000	A4V02252000
March 7, 2000	A4V03072000
March 9, 2000	A4V03092000
March 24, 2000	A4V03242000
April 11, 2000	A4V04112000
May 6, 2000	A4V05062000
May 26, 2000	A4V05252000
May 30, 2000	A4V05302000
July 4, 2000	ALIEN_RESURRECTION(2)
July 5, 2000	ALIEN_RESURRECTION-2
July 7, 2000	ALIEN_V316
July 19, 2000	ALIEN_RESURRECTION_V415
July 29, 2000	ALIEN_RESURRECTION(3)
July 31, 2000	ALIEN_RESURRECTION
August 8, 2000	Alien Resurrection	Released by Hidden Palace
September 1, 2000	ALIEN_RESURRECTION(1)
October 4, 2000	ALIEN_RESURRECTION_PAL	PAL version.