They Live: Re-take the Earth

They Live: Re-take the Earth is a sequel to They Live: The Game. While the first game was a side-scrolling shoot-em-up, this game is a top-down shooter with a 3D environment in some areas (done to hone in on the 3D craze of the late-90s). This marks the first collaboration between Cor-Son Games and Radical Entertainment. ASC Games published it and Virgin Interactive distributed it.

Development
The game came about during the production of the first They Live game, where Cor-Son hired Gray Matter to produce a port for the 3DO. After seeing that what they came up with was starkly different from the core design of the game, Cor-Son decided to scrap it and save it for a different game. The first game was a financial success, and seeing the potential of a sequel, they hired Gray Matter to produce the game for the SEGA Saturn and PlayStation, only to fire them from the project upon noting the poor quality of what they came up with.

Cor-Son hired Radical Entertainment to help polish the game and had ASC Games publish the game as they did with the first. Virgin Interactive agreed to distribute the game in Europe, but wound up doing it in North America as well due to the poor reviews of the SEGA Saturn port since it was rushed for release, leading to the developers using a European master and doing the same for the PlayStation port to prevent similar complaints from arising.

Plot
The game picks up where the film (and to a degree, the last game) left off, where John Nada is fatally wounded. His body is taken into a lab and he is revived by an alien, with the intent of killing him personally due to him exposing the rest of the aliens by destroying the signal. John shoots the alien and escape the facility to kill off the rest of the aliens.