Alien Puzzle Ultimate Havoc

Picking up cows tends to alert farmers, who then charge after you.

Alien Puzzle Ultimate Havoc puts you in control of your very own little green Martian.

Actually, you can customize your alien's head and body color to allow for aliens of any shade.

The color change doesn't alter the gameplay, unfortunately. This is a bit of a snoozer.

Your alien has come to Earth to steal its cows. Perhaps they want to open their own McDonald's.

To do this, you'll navigate a series of small maps, snagging cows while avoiding angry farmers.

The goal is to secure every cow in your ship before being caught and forced to experience a scene from Deliverance.

The controls are very simple, which is great. This is the type of game meant to be mindlessly easy but incredibly addictive.

Its only flaw is that it's not fun.

Picking up cows tends to alert farmers, who then charge after you.

Because aliens have short stubby legs, you can't outrun the gangly humans, but you can throw cows at them (or rocks, or cabbages).

Tossing a cow at a farmer is pretty awesome. Just be careful, because cows get hurt when thrown.

They can be healed with cabbage (of course), but it's best not to over-exert your bovine prize.

You can also hide in the grass and wait for the farmer to wander back to his guard spot.

If your alien moved quickly and there were tons of cows and crazy obstacles in your way -- you know, a true havoc -- this could be a great game.

But it's level after level of snail-paced action and uninteresting solutions to your problems.

The game will keep track of your score, but it doesn’t matter how well you do since there is no leaderboard.

Cats may have 9 lives, but Aliens only have three in this game.

A life can be lost by getting hit by a tractor or a farmer picking you up and running off with you.

Throwing around or even dropping off a cow too many times will result in them running free.

You can still move onto the next level even without capturing a single cow.

The cow bonus portion of your score will be zero, but the next round is yours.

Alien Puzzle Ultimate Havoc showed promise, but in the end just didn’t fit manage to make being an alien fun.

Aliens are known for having special abilities and super futuristic weapons.

Some of those would have helped out this game in a big way.

A local leaderboard is something else that seems like it should have been in there, but since it wasn’t,

it just makes the score at the end of each round seem rather pointless.

The art style very well may be this games saving grace.