Aliens : Colonial Marines - FPS ( They're back ! )

Has anyone else played the Aliens Extermination arcade game? it's fairly terrible, but in a strangely brilliant way. Force feedback pulse rifles! The plot was frankly insane, you start out playing a bug hunt then end up fighting synthetics and turret guns :mad: But still. Force feedback pulse rifles.
 
Meridian said:
You only just made that link? Now go and look at the doorways into the spacecraft in the original film....


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It's very deliberate, the guy who designed the aliens intended for the xenomorphs' heads to resemble the human penis for example. There's a lot of phallic and sexual influences over the design of the aliens.
 
Hopefully this will coincide with a new Alien movie with Sigourney Beaver, albeit an ageing one :P

Maybe an Earth invasion at last.
 
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Neil79 said:
Colonial Marines Has Quick-Time Events :mad::mad:

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/?p=1301


Awful i hate quick-time events , i hated it in Jericho and Beowulf pc...
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I've possibly been living under a rock for the past decade, but what the hell are quick time effects? Assume its not the same as bullet time?
Please explain :) Really really looking forward to this game at the mo!
(and yes I read the article linked above and am still none t he wiser)
 
KNiVES said:
It's very deliberate, the guy who designed the aliens intended for the xenomorphs' heads to resemble the human penis for example. There's a lot of phallic and sexual influences over the design of the aliens.
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HR Giger is his name - an awful lot of his art involves sexual organs depicted in not entirely obvious ways. Studied him for A level art 10 years ago :) the guy is a genius imo- men being terrified of flying vaginas which in turn impregnate them with a living organism ultimatly leading to their deaths....
He didnt have a great relationship with his mother iirc :D
 
agnes said:
thats what i saw as well, dodgy or what :S

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don't play the first AVP2 then....errrrgh...that 'thing' wiggling in your face makes me feel queezy every time :p

Something like this:

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Pants picture...but yeah.
 
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Rimsy said:
HR Giger is his name - an awful lot of his art involves sexual organs depicted in not entirely obvious ways. Studied him for A level art 10 years ago :) the guy is a genius imo- men being terrified of flying vaginas which in turn impregnate them with a living organism ultimatly leading to their deaths....
He didnt have a great relationship with his mother iirc :D
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He has also produced artwork for other games. Notably DarkSeed on the Amiga and PC (also Darkseed 2/3). Very good games in the vain of Monkey Island (but obviously darker) a bit to much reliance on time for my liking (i.e. have to open the front door at this time) but apart from that very good.

I love the new look Aliens (back on topic) and hope it can be brilliant!



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Rimsy said:
I've possibly been living under a rock for the past decade, but what the hell are quick time effects? Assume its not the same as bullet time?
Please explain :) Really really looking forward to this game at the mo!
(and yes I read the article linked above and am still none t he wiser)
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A QTE is essentially an interactive cutscene. You have no actual control over what is going on, but at certain points you have to press a given button to progress. Don't mind them if they're done well, God of War has probably the best use of QTE's.
 
With the dynamic lighting and all that stuff used in next gen games you just know it will be easier to create an atmosphere for the game than it might have been a few years back.
 
wedgie said:
A QTE is essentially an interactive cutscene. You have no actual control over what is going on, but at certain points you have to press a given button to progress. Don't mind them if they're done well, God of War has probably the best use of QTE's.
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Ah ok. Thanks for the info.
Doesnt sound ideal, but as you say if its done well then hopefully it wont be a game killer
 
Damien. said:
Oh yer, i remember that thing.

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Can't tell if that's sarcasm or not :p

Just a shock everytime my mate would jump out of no where and then suddenly that thing's slurping in your face :p

AVP2 on a four player LAN set-up was actually, awesome.

Two marines, one alien, one predator...or mix and match...Never jumped so much to be honest.
 
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