Fans who were disappointed in the latest Aliens vs. Predator game (check out our review) may have reason to rejoice once more.
The Gearbox developed game, Aliens: Colonial Marines has not been cancelled and is still in production.
Alan Pritchard, SEGA West‘s Vice President of Marketing and Sales confirmed in an interview with Game Informer that Colonial Marines is still being worked on. The interview clip follows:
“Colonial Marines is still on. We’ve been working closely with Gearbox behind the scenes, and we’ll be able to tell you a lot about that in the next couple of months. It won’t be November 11th. We haven’t announced a date yet. This was kind of a pickup for us, with Activision acquiring Vivendi and us having the Aliens license. With the state of the code available to us with Aliens vs. Predator from Rebellion, that kind of forced us and allowed us to slightly alter our Aliens roadmap and strategy. It made sense to release that first.”
Could this perhaps mean Colonial Marines will be a better experience compared to the somewhat average AvP game that released earlier this year?
In addition, the next major release coming from Gearbox happens to be Duke Nukem Forever. From a marketing standpoint, it would make a ton of sense to want to release an incredibly anticipated game like that over Aliens. Despite the fact your xenomorph killing is going to have to wait until after Duke Nukem Forever releases, at least DNF will feature some extraterrestrial target practice to tide us over.
While it is good news to hear Colonial Marines isn’t cancelled, it’d be great if more details do come out in “the next couple of months.” However, two things are certain:
- 1) There’s going to be a lot of aliens between you and escape (or whatever objective you’re supposed to accomplish).
- 2) The M41A Pulse Rifles will be at your disposal – along with their beautiful sound effects.
Aliens: Colonial Marines will be releasing some time in the future, maybe 2012 for possibly the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC.
Source: Game Informer [via SEGA Bits]
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Man I hope this game is actually good. Ever since watching Aliens I have been wanting a game like this. There have been games with the Marines in it before but they just didn’t do it for me.
They’ve had this in development for 6 years how can it not be good with that much development time? I hope it’s really atmospheric and scary as hell, that’s all I want!
uuhhh no Hudson it has not. the game was announced in december 2006 and actual work begun in 2007.
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differant hudson here. ya i was going to reply to Hudson but i thought it would be a little confusing. ya your right.
The game has seen some work here and there, the featured screenshot is from a working build of the game. Like I said in the post, Gearbox was very much focused on releasing Duke Nukem Forever first, Aliens would just be a huge bonus in the year after its release.
If there’s one thing I can say for sure about Gearbox, I have never been disappointed with any of the game’s they have released that I have played, dating back to when I first heard about Brothers in Arms (which is a great tactical shooter). If Aliens possessed some of the things that made Brothers in Arms really shine, like the tactical control, Aliens will be worth the wait and definitely be something every shooter fan should be playing.