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

CVG said:
30-Dec-2008 Is this gonna be a stand-up fight... or just another bug hunt?


The Aliens vs Predator games were some of the scariest, most thrilling FPS's on PC, but since then - bar an excellent Alien Resurrection title from Argonaut on PS1 - things have been surprisingly quiet for Giger's multiple-mouthed horror. Shame, really, because with (at least, depending on how much you love Alien 3) two exceptional films to draw on, background-filling-in spin-off books and comics and one of the darkest, most iconic worlds going, the acid-blood ET is perfect fodder for videogames.

Which is probably why Sega, on securing the licence from Fox, doubled their money and decided to put two Aliens games into production. Aliens: The RPG remains something of a mystery, hidden away in Obsidian's Orange County bunker, but Colonial Marines, a first-person shooter in the spirit of Aliens vs Predator, has been a little more forthcoming.

Like this month's exceptional Left 4 Dead, Colonial Marines is a four-player co-op game centred around survival: you're constantly under attack and the environments you move through are frequently hiding your enemy. However, whereas Left 4 Dead pitches you into the middle of a nameless American city awash in zombies, Colonial Marines goes for fan-pleasing recreations of the movie quadrilogy's best locations: LV-426, the planet where the Nostromo first discovers the derelict alien ship in the original film; the Sulaco, where Ripley joins up with the marines in Aliens; and Fiorina 'Fury' 161, the prison facility from Alien 3.

Although the game will be best played as a co-op experience, the single-player option offers a very close approximation of what Gearbox have already done in Brothers in Arms. On your tod, you can control one of the team of four, and issue orders to the others. You can also switch between them at will. Each of the marines will have specialised skills, and carry guns unique to them, and while further details haven't been revealed yet, it's safe to assume that the quartet of soldiers will be closely modelled on the marines in Aliens.

We're taking a wild stab in the dark here and predicting a Drake/Vasquez-style M56 smart gun-carrier; a loose-mouthed technician based on the swear-tastically lily-livered Hudson; an expert in mid-range weaponry like the bought-the-farm-early-doors-in-Aliens Frost; and, of course, a bad ass Hicks-style squad leader. On top of weaponry specific to each character, all four marines will have access to the beefy bangsticks of the second film, which means pistols, RPGs, grenades, flamethrowers, plus the tasty pulse rifles and sentry guns.

The story is being keenly kept under wraps, but it has pedigree. Scripters Bradley Thompson and David Weddle are at the typewriter which, for anyone who has seen the reimagining of Battlestar Galactica, will know can only be good news, while the setting is post-Alien 3 which means the game can head back into the world of the second and third films without too many timeline problems.

Intriguingly, the plot also sees the four-man team heading into the actual alien spaceship itself on LV-246, which will make for a dizzying visual prospect if Gearbox can come close to matching Giger's startling vision in full-on next-gen-o-vision. As if anticipating the importance of getting the 'look' right, the team have even hired the film's Oscar-winning concept artist Syd Mead, to ensure that the visual style of the game matches that of the films.

Given all that, and Gearbox's very decent CV, the only way you could fail to get excited about the prospect of a shiny 360 Aliens FPS is if you were in hypersleep. Expect more on this as space year 2009 unfolds... and maybe even a glimpse of the RPG too.
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I hope this one turns out good!
 
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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I dont like HR Giger, hes completely obsessed about penis's, watch the way the chest burster comes out of the boy in the woods in avp2 requiem youll see exactly what i mean, i think hes also gay which might explain his over the top interest in penis's.
 
DF1986 said:
I dont like HR Giger, hes completely obsessed about penis's, watch the way the chest burster comes out of the boy in the woods in avp2 requiem youll see exactly what i mean, i think hes also gay which might explain his over the top interest in penis's.
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I have a few of HR's artwork books , dude there are about 20 pages of Vagina type pics so it aint just noobs hes interested in
 
please lord i dont ask for much, but please please please make this game be brilliant.

If its even just l4d reskinned with alien hordes replacing the zombies that will be enough.

Thankyou lordy :)
 
I just dont like him, hes got something wrong upstairs and should get help.
If i started doing artwork of penis's, vaginas and anus's attacking each other and mutilating people then id get commited by someone but he gets away with it :p
 
Not that I know of, which is a tad strange as the game is only around the corner. I'm sure websites and magazines will get a hands of preview soon enough and we'll start to see trailers and screenshots of the game. Right now we are all excited about the name of the title rather than any smalls bit of info that have been released
 
VinceB1 said:
L4D with aliens anybody?
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I can only hope it's as good as L4D.

If they can do a similar style of system like the Zombie Director then this game will be awesome.

Just make it more story based with online co-op with Aliens and their various types spawning depending on the situation, like the Zombie Director.

If they pull this off I'll be the happiest gamer going.

AVP1 was one of the most tense games I've ever played, especially as the marine with the motion tracker.

AVP2 was good too but it lost a lot of the tense moments in my opinion.
 
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