The dropship sequence is a particularly impressive bit of sleight-of-hand, while sequences inside Hadley’s Hope use lighting, projections, and environmental design to great effect.
It’s a smart adaptation, too: rather than putting the rider through literal recreations of the film’s setpieces, it re-interprets the action sequences as high-speed rollercoaster segments, and moments of quiet tension as slow-moving anticipation. There’s been a plethora of absolutely insane creations made in the game, which you can readily find on YouTube, but ' Aliens: The Ride' has to be one of the most impressive.Ĭreated by YouTube user Hin Nya, the Planet Coaster build contains a slew of custom models, animations, and textures, and recreates nearly the entirety of Aliens in roller-coaster form. Released in 2016 by Frontier Developments ( Elite: Dangerous, the Rollercoaster Tycoon series), it’s a vast theme-park simulator in which players create original rides seemingly limited only by imagination and computer resources.
