Sega Reveals Aliens: Colonial Marines Details

[Andy Chalk]

Sega Reveals Aliens: Colonial Marines Details

Sega has unveiled details about Aliens: Colonial Marines, the new squad-based FPS title currently in development.

As a member of a Aliens [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Colonial_Marines]experience while retaining the look and ambiance of the original films, and new skills, equipment and weapons will be available along with old standards like the M41A pulse rifle and the M240 flamethrower.

The game will feature a story-driven single player mode built around ferocious battles against a fearsome enemy onslaught in highly detailed environments including the abandoned Sulaco [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulaco_(spaceship)], as well as a four-player cooperative action mode that will give each player a distinct role to fill in every mission. Information about other multiplayer modes will be released later in the year.

Aliens: Colonial Marines is currently in development for the Aliens website [http://www.playstation.com].


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[mephidrossxx]

I was waiting for Alien vs Predator 3 but this is a good new too.

 

[Easykill]

Sounds cool, but with all the good games coming out this year, I doubt I'll even have the money to buy it.

 

[Moroha]

Awesome.
I thought they had abandond this idea.

 

[MikeyW]

Could be awesome. Just hope SEGA doesn't get caught up in the whole "Next Gen is all flashy show. People don't want a game, they want a glitzy masturbatory aid to wow their friends with." The Alien franchise has been copping a raping lately and really needs something awe inspiring to dig it out of its hole.

 

[Andy Chalk]

I'm always down with the shooting of the xenomorphs, but I'm not really seeing how this is offering any kind of increased coolness factor over and above the AVP games.

 

[Talisker]

Yay. I too thought they had abandoned this, lets just hope it's as good as the AvP games.

 

[CarlosYenrac]

I have one simple request from any alien game: let me play as the alien, and I'm happy.

 

[Arbre]

Wasn't it United Systems Colonial Marines?
Or am I confusing stuff with the United Systems Military that came 200 years later?

 

[L.B. Jeffries]

I'm not trying to badmouth this game but...is anyone else a little bit disappointed that it's going to be a giant "ZOMFG! ALIENS!" rush fest? It just sounds like a giant round of the Flood levels from Halo. If it weren't for the Aliens IP...would anyone even care?

Would it kill them to experiment just a tiny bit amidst the sea of gimmick FPS titles? Why not make an Alien game that's just like the first movie? You've got no guns, you're on a giant ship with millions of place for JUST one alien to hide, you're out in bumblef*ck deep space, and you have to systematically quarantine parts of the ship and try to trap it. Meanwhile, a batty android is trying to stop you while the other half of the crew won't unlock the escape pod.

Just something, ANYTHING, besides go from point A to B, kill things, collect crap. Repeat.

 

[thebobmaster_v1legacy]

Sega's involved. I'm not holding my breath.

 

[Talisker]

Wasn't it United Systems Colonial Marines?
Or am I confusing stuff with the United Systems Military that came 200 years later?

When the Colonial Marines were involved in Aliens I think it was still called the United States. Dear God I hope they don't set it after Alien Resurrection.

 

[Andy Chalk]

Wasn't it United Systems Colonial Marines?
Or am I confusing stuff with the United Systems Military that came 200 years later?

I wasn't sure about this one either so I looked it up, and apparently United States Colonial Marines is the correct appellation, part of the United Americas Allied Command. It sounds not too far off our real-world military/political situation of a bloc of nations united in a military alliance but dominated by the US, which I suppose makes sense under the circumstances.