Aliens: Colonial Marines due spring 2012
Gearbox's co-op shooter inspired by the revered sci-fi action movie Aliens dropped off the radar for a while, but it's now back in the spotlight with a new trailer, details, and launch window.
Gearbox's much-anticipated co-op shooter Aliens: Colonial Marines largely dropped off the radar after it was announced in 2008, but the Borderlands developer has always insisted it was still on its way. Today, publisher Sega pulled back the curtain to reveal a new trailer, more details, a single screenshot, and a release window--spring 2012.
Described by the official site as "a true sequel to James Cameron's classic Aliens," Colonial marines promises drop-in/drop-out co-op for up to four players. Marines will venture into movie environments such as Hadley's Hope, the Sulaco and LV-426, armed with weapons including pulse rifles, motion trackers and flamethrowers on "self-contained missions within an over-arching narrative."
As is customary for first-person shooters nowadays, there'll be character customisation and an "upgrade" system. Marines will unlock new perks, weapons and cosmetic options as they gain experience.
Aliens: Colonial Marines is scheduled to launch on PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in spring 2012. Back in 2009, Sega said a Nintendo DS version was being handled by another developer, but there was no word on this today. Colonial Marines will be on show at E3 this year, doubtless behind a very long queue full of people quoting their favourite Aliens lines. Stay frosty.
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replyAlice O'Connor posted a new article, Aliens: Colonial Marines due spring 2012.
Gearbox's co-op shooter inspired by the revered sci-fi action movie Aliens dropped off the radar for a while, but it's now back in the spotlight with a new trailer, details, and launch window.-
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A ninja, you say? As the saying goes, if you saw a ninja, it couldn't have really been there.
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I wouldn't have minded so much if they hadn't said over and over again how the PC version was being being designed for that platform.
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I didn't have any major issues with the PC version, other than the FOV. Everything else worked just fine for me. My only major complaint with Borderlands was when they decided to change the art style as I much preferred the original to the final. Other than that, I think Borderlands was a great co-op game. Not perfect, but fun nonetheless. Gearbox's other titles have been very solid in my opinion as well such as the Brothers in Arms series. And soon we will see how they did with Duke so maybe that will give us a better idea of how they are doing things now.
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The Gamespy matchmaking was a major issue. Also the VOx voice chat that you couldn't disable.
You had to manually poke holes in your firewall, it didn't work with uPNP. It was pretty crashy at the start. The AI was terrible and the gameplay wasn't compelling. Other more minor things. -
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It works really great too, when I played it it was the same as if someone had invited us to a L4D lobby.
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Ya! I don't understand why anyone uses Gamespy anymore. I'm hoping for Steamworks. Seeing how they added Achivements to Borderlands and DNF is a Steamworks title I have my fingers crossed.
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The music and audio in this video gives me hope, sound so 80's, also the old computer terminal looks nice; the idea to stick to the Cameron´s movie is just brilliant, for me only the 3 first movies are part of the Aliens universe, the rest are just 20 Century Fox executives in cocaine trowing stinky ideas...remember "in space nobody can hear you fart"
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Yep, the movies stopped being canon after the 3rd for me as well.
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For some reason James Cameron liked Alien Vs Predator. I have no fucking clue how.
JAMES CAMERON: Milking it. So, I stopped work. Then I saw ALIEN VS PREDATOR and it was actually pretty good. (laughs) I think of the 5 ALIEN films, I'd rate it 3rd.
QUINT: Ummm...
JAMES CAMERON: I actually liked it. I actually liked it a lot.
http://aliensvspredator2.filefront.com/news/Aint_It_Cool_News_interviews_James_Cameron;25059
Also, keep in mind that he probably ranks it over Alien 3 because he really hates that movie, probably because it kills off all of his characters at the very beginning of the movie. I hate the movie too but I wouldn't rank AvP over it.-
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It's so sad really. There was a whole series of comics and novels that did it way more justice.
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What is with the trailer playing automatically?
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Well I have and will continue to be hyped for this game but that voice acting in the trailer is a bit stank.
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So, something that's always bothered me about Aliens. That giant ass ship they are on. Where is the rest of the crew? The Captain, the first mate, etc? It's just a squad of Marines, an android, and two assholes.
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lol@ two assholes....its only 385m's long apparently http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulaco_%28spaceship%29
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Hmm..Still, it's a military vessel. It should have a captain for an Admiral.
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I'm guessing there was no need for a large crew since most of the ships operation was automated.
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Government contract i'm sure.
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HFS, they still use IPv4 in the future? How is that possible!
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If you enter in the IP address and login shown in the trailer you get this trailer w/ gameplay footage http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoWvljOEcwE
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