A new game set in the Alien universe is in development, and it's coming to consoles and PC later this year.
Developed by Cold Iron Studios, Aliens: Fireteam is a third-person co-op survival shooter that pits you and your friends against a terrifying Xenomorph horde. It's set several decades after the original Alien films and, judging from the trailer, it couldn't be more different from the single-player survival horror of Alien: Isolation.
Take a look at the reveal trailer below.
"Set 23 years after the original Alien trilogy, Aliens: Fireteam drops players into the role of a Colonial Marine aboard the USS Endeavor, recently tasked with answering a distress call from the outer colonies. Deploy to overrun facilities, abandoned ruins, and strange alien landscapes as you battle terrifying enemies across four campaigns with two friends or AI teammates."
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Unlike Alien: Isolation, which spent most of its runtime asking players to cower in cupboards and vents from a lone Xenomorph, Aliens: Fireteam invites players to pick up their biggest guns and mow down dozens of the feckers in a class-based shooter. Players will take on roles like gunner, techinican, and demolisher, and Cold Iron has promised there'll be a massive range of enemies to fight. In addition to 11 types of Xenomorphs, there'll be plenty of Weyland-Yutani synthetics out for blood.
I probably don't need to tell you that games set in the Alien universe can be a... mixed bag, at best. For every Alien: Isolation, there's a Colonial Marines. It's an unfortunate fact that this new entry looks a lot more like the latter, but we can't hold that against it! Not yet, anyway. If we look at it from the angle of Left 4 Dead but with Aliens, then it becomes a much more promising prospect.
Aliens: Fireteam is currently schedule to launch this summer on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series consoles and Steam.
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