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One day I discovered a mod for doom called "Aliens" and since I was a huge fan of the Aliens movie I decided to download it and give it a try. I called my friend we setup a date to play it. We started a friday evening and even though I had a postage sized rendered area on my screen, the mood and the quality of this mod was so good that we didn't come up for air until 5 am saturday morning.
Booting it up and walking through that first empty level was an amazing feeling. Since we were sitting right next to eachother we were talking and laughing as we started but as we progressed through the first level our chatter and laughter died down and it suddenly became very very serious. We talked in quiet tones giving orders to eachother, covering eachother as we progressed down the quite, empty hallways ready for anything to jump out at us. Anything would have been better than this oppressive emptiness that filled the our monitor screens. When we got to the end of the level and realized that we had become scared of nothing we both realized we were in for a hell of a ride.
As we progressed through the levels, shooting aliens, watching baby aliens burst out of chests, getting completely overwhelmed and going down firing our maching guns into aliens that when shot, exploded into alien acid goo and tearing our armor up, we became completely lost in this mod. Fredrik and Petter that sat in front of those two computers seized to be and we suddenly became hardened marines that were scared shitless of knowing that we had to progress further and further into this alien infested hell.
As sunday evening came and it was time for me to go home, I had absolutely and very clearly realized what computer games were capable of. Not only for entertainment, but in some rare cases they allow you to become someone else and allow you to experience something out of this world.
The feeling that Aliens TC mod by Justin Fisher gave me is something that I have never really fully captured again. It could have been the unexpected quality of it. Maybe the seriousness of it. Or it could be that we both just really went for it and let ourselves, for those 2 days, become those marines who landed on that alien infested planet.
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