You’ll finally get your chance to snuggle up to the deadly Xenomorphs of the Aliens film franchise when Aliens: Colonial Marines hits consoles and PCs early next year.
At last year’s E3, lots of people sat up and took notice at Brothers in Arms: Furious 4, Gearbox Studios’ radical reinvention of their earnest World War II first-person-shooter franchise.
I’ll never forget the moment when Borderlands — a game into which I would pour at least 60, probably 80 and maybe 100 hours — utterly hooked me. I peered through my scope at a slow, stupid, posturing Bruiser and blasted him with my newly acquired electrified sniper. I held the scope view, and watched him spasm and jerk until his eyeballs popped out of his head and rolled around in the alkaline dust of the Dahl Headlands.
In February 2008 I went to Gearbox in Texas to have an early first look at Aliens: Colonial Marines. Today, almost four years later, the game is scheduled for release at some point in 2012. This leaked collector’s edition, however, which features a pretty nifty power loader suit ala the one seen at the end of Aliens sort of lifts hopes that we’ll see the game in a timely fashion!
Perhaps you are a female. Perhaps you are a female who resembles Lilith from Borderlands. Or perhaps you know someone who does. If so, the game’s developer, Gearbox Sofware, has a deal for you.
Michael John Mamaril sadly passed away last month at the age of just 22. Being a big Borderlands fan, Michael’s friend Carlo thought a nice way to remember him would be to have the game somehow pay tribute. Borderlands developers Gearbox did this and then some.
Gearbox Software pumped out another six screenshots of its upcoming Aliens: Colonial Marines over the game’s official Facebook page this afternoon. The game is still on course for a 2012 release, as these grabs are meant to show. They also show wrecked infrastructure, rampaging xenomorphs and humans in charge of the galaxy’s least desirable Orkin franchise.
We’ve seen this Aliens: Colonial Marines demonstration twice now: Crecente caught it at E3 and I saw it at Gamescom. We both walked away rather impressed. Now you can see how you walk away.
Aliens: Colonial Marines seeks to create the terror and tension of key moments in the Aliens movie franchise, using high-end graphics and a first-person view to immerse the player. It’s DS counterpart, Infestation, just lets you shoot things.