Not a still from Starcraft II, we swear...
A few months ago, when I was thinking to myself, “Hey, when are they going to make another game for the movie franchise Aliens?” I found the website http://www2.sega.com/aliens/. For those who haven’t been keeping up with current events, so to speak, a new Aliens: Colonial Marines game was set for late 2009 which was to be a story-based FPS with multiplayer and co-op. Instead of beeping rapidly, however, gamers’ motion detectors have since all but silenced as details have been fleeting and the title has been pushed back farther and farther.
Instead we have the joy to hear that a new Alien vs. Predator game is coming out (although I prefer to write “Alien v. Predator” like it’s a court case) and though some of you out there might be pumped at the premise, I am far from it. Now, it’s been a long time since Aliens got a good game treatment on its own, and frankly, it deserves one. One without predators. Between games like this and the recent pair of movies, I’m tired with what was already a patched-together premise in the first place. With new graphic cards and gaming physics, a real, hardcore Aliens experience for platform and PC could really rejuvenate the franchise before Ridley Scott even gets his hands on a prequel.
