Sega has posted the box art for Gearbox
Software's forthcoming Aliens: Colonial Marines, and it's just about
as Colonial, Marine-like, and Alieny as you might expect. Take a peek
at the new face of fear (and hopefully fun) inside...
XMNR: Remeber the original Alien movie when crew members from the Nostromo went to investigate the derelict alien ship that contained the Space Jockey and Kane ended up returning with a Facehugger? That classic sci-fi set piece will return in Aliens: Colonial Marines according to Gearbox Software CEO Randy Pitchford in an interview released on Friday.
SEGA today confirmed it is delaying the release of Aliens: Colonial Marines until later this fall.
OXM UK: "Sega has pushed back Gearbox's Aliens: Colonial Marines from spring to autumn 2012."
Sega has posted over 11 minutes of Aliens: Colonial Marines footage originally screened behind closed doors with Gearbox Software at E3 2011. Watch and listen as Gearbox president Randy Pitchford talks viewers through a tour of the game's derelict environments and a frantic encounter with extraterrestrial baddies both familiar and new...
Gearbox Software has beamed in a new gameplay trailer for Aliens: Colonial Marines, offering virtual space warriors a preview of the screeching, acid-drooling terrors that await them aboard the U.S.S. Sulaco next spring. Going by these latest impressions alone, Gearbox appears to have nailed the gritty, desperate atmosphere from the films. But then, compared to the scads of other other FPSs featuring low-lit, rundown and alien infested spaceship environments (many of which were no doubt inspired by the Aliens franchise) it also looks a tad...generic?
When discussing its latest game Aliens: Colonial Marines at Gamescom, Gearbox Software name-dropped the two major creators of the Aliens franchise and their assistance on the new game.
Check out these new screens from Aliens: Colonial Marines.