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That's right boys and girl.
The Alien franchise has been picked up, by Sega.
Game Informer wrote:Sega scared gamers when it released Xbox 360 horror game Condemned and now it's going to take things to a whole new level. The company hhas signed a deal for the rights to the alien film franchise, and has already entered pre-production on multiple next-gen Alien titles, including a first-person shooter and an RPG. The first fruits of this deal aren't expected until 2009.
We don't know if actress Sigourney Weaver will reprise her role as Ripley for the games, nor whether they will re-tell the stories of the movies. Direction is bieng provided by proclaimed developer Obsidian Entertainment (KOTOR II), which is handling the Alien RPG (Also appearing on PC). Sega of America president and CEO Simon Jeffery said Obsidian was "the only developer for us that could effectivly combine the Alien mythology with compelling RPG gameplay to create the ultimate Alien experience." The Alien FPS, meanwhile has been handed over to Brothers in Arms developer Gearbox.
On one hand, SEGA is handling it, although Condemned was pretty damn awesome.
On the other, Obsidian making an Alien RPG? Sure why not. Gearbox making an Alien FPS? Fuck yes!
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The game itself was developed by Monolith.
Which is sad since I hold Aliens to be the best sci-fi movie evar.
Either way I'm looking forward to this, Alien is one of the few movie franchises that's had a number of consistently above average games based on it.
If you hate Alien 3, the work print that's out now won't turn you into a fan, but if you saw it as wasted potential I'd consider checking it out. It's at least coherent compared to the theatrical version. Personally I think it's great even if it still falls short of the first two films.
But yeah, you're right. It would be nice.
There was Aliens: A Comic Book Adventure which was decent enough in this respect. Same to the old computer (I think there was a C64 one too) Alien game. Whole thing was based around the motion sensor sound effect and you moving the individual crew members of the Nostromo around a primitive blueprint to flush the Alien out one of the airlocks without getting eviscerated.
Sadly, Alien Resurrection on the PSX began development as a slow paced horror game. The finished product is a below average FPS that doesn't even touch Alien Trilogy in quality.
I don't know if I'd consider Alien to be Horror or Action. more like Thriller, or Suspense, or AMAZING!
Aliens though, well thats all about the action.
I have high hopes for these games, we'll see.
Correct. Major chunks of the marine game are played in almost complete darkness. You have unlimited nightvision but you can't have it and your motion sensor activated at the same time. Awesome game too. I like it more than AvP2 to be honest.
Yes actually. It's out of print but there was even a Colonial Marine Technical Manual at one point. Its information based far more off the film Aliens specifically and James Cameron's notes on it rather than, say, a lot of the Star Trek technical manuals that have come out. There's a lot of information to be gathered from the first two movies.
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HR Giger Aliens lend themselves to pant-shitting moments no matter the genre of game, though. All that's needed to make this game scary is for the designers to give you five bullets, then drop you into a room with six facehuggers.
I'll be able to use my Nostromo... while on the Nostromo.
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That was a god-damn awesome game, one of the last rail shooters I really enjoyed, especially while laughing at player 2's expense when he thought you were supposed to shoot the prisoners.
There are so many conceivable ways to make a good Alien game it's ridiculous. Even in first-person, they could still go the Penumbra route and leave you basically unarmed against a handful (or even one) of the things, and thus resorting to unorthodox methods to deal with them. However, a good old-fashioned shoot-em-up would be most excellent, too.
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There was a cool little AvP2 mod that worked like this. You had next to nothing for weapony and had to stay out of this main area tha twas crawling with Facehuggers. But there were the dog/runner style aliens to contend with as well.
Fincher refused to have anything to do with the idea.
KOTOR wasn't their fault and the NWN campaign was damn good.
Sad thing is how much Warner Bros. butchered the documentary. Fincher is only very rarely seen or heard from on it as a result.
I'm pretty excited about this. The BiA games were great (unskippable amateur philosophical ramblings aside).
I'm a big AvP fan (the games, not the movie), and I kind of wish that someone would make a marine campaign using the Doom 3 engine. I remember playing Doom 3, and thinking about what the marine levels from AvP1 would be like. Completely fucking awesome is my guess.
I also agree that AvP1 is better than AvP2, although I understand that isn't the standard view. I'm sure someone knows better than I do, but I believe AvP1 was running on a custom-built engine - you could really see it in the deformable explosions that sent blast waves down corridores, or in the great lighting, or in the water ripples that followed your character. In the Alien campaign demo there was an area with water that had some cigarette cartons floating, and you could move them around in the water semi-realistically. It was really cool. By contrast, AvP2 uses a version of the Lithtech engine that just doesn't duplicate some of the neat effects of the first game, even though on the whole it does look nicer.
Finally, I think it's worth noting that there actually is more than enough additional lore to drive some solid games. The colonial maries primarily serve coroporate interests, and have been used to put down human resistance movements on various planets. It would also be cool to have a game that involves colonial marines launching and assault on earth to re-take the planet (in Aliens fiction the planet has been effectively taken over by Alien hives). Ride in with your buddies on a dropship and work to retake cities - there's a lot of fun to be had, I think.
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Was waiting for someone to pick up on that.
What?
...did you even read the thread?
I'm excited.
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Come to think of it, that series has tons of possibilities.
Too bad Predator hasn't been so lucky.
(I own the Genesis Predator 2 though, which I remember liking for some reason.)
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You're given 4 bullets too many.
Also, I own the tech manual and it does have some awesome info.