The plot hook about Ripley's daughter isn't entirely outside of canon. I don't know if it made it into the director's cut of Aliens, but one of the reasons Ripley's so messed up in the original script is that she did have a daughter on Earth, but she passed away as a bitter old woman while her mother was in hypersleep. It was supposed to make her bond with Newt more meaningful.

As for this game... I like the hook concept, but there's nothing new here. The colony hallways, the airlock, etc. On the flip side, it looks like you're not heavily armed, which would make the xenomorph an actual threat, so there's that.

The devs seem very adamant this is a slow moving survival horror thing and not an FPS. So, we'll see.

You know, I remember a pretty cool Alien game way back on the Commodore 64 of all things. It was almost like FTL or something you basically gave commands to the crew members in an attempt to move them all around the spaceship and pick up weapons and try to group together, but the gimmick was that you didn't know which crew member was initially killed by the baby alien birth, instead it was randomized each time you played. I got the feeling it wasn't officially licensed because it always seemed to be bundle in those game packs that had, like, 20 garbage games and a few cool ones.

It's being designed as a survival horror-style game, not a shooter (I believe I read there are no guns at all). There is only one Alien and its AI supposedly stalks you through the ship on its own without a lot of pre-planned guidance. Although I am sure there are some scripted events utilizing the monster, they claim that a lot of the encounters with the creature are random (we'll have to wait and see).

I'm hyped. I like the idea that someone at SEGA was handed this IP and didn't say, "Okay guys. Pull out the Aliens DVD. Start modeling the pulse rifle. Start animating some space marines. Start filling up these hallways with hundreds of stupid monsters to shoot down. We need this pumped out in 6 months."

As for the character/backstory: see this limp half-assed single hip thrust in the air at nothing I just did? That's all the fucks I have left for that shit. It's an excuse to leave the player stranded on a ship with that fucking monster. Good enough for me.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me again . . . not going to get fooled again.

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Like the concept - Alien 1 circumstances.

Nope, nope, and nope. Colonial Marines was Sega's best title since 2006 Sonic the Hedgehog.

This doesn't make any sense. If you're the only living human on the ship, waving a flashlight around in the dark with no weapons and the alien sees you, you're insta-dead.

...Does that men it's consciously fucking with you? I can get behind that.

With a couple more weeks of work, I can convince myself that the Alien franchise ended with the second film.

Colonial marines was a terrible game, which happened to have aliens franchise stuff plonked on it. This may or may not be a good game which also has aliens franchise stuff plonked on it. Thats how games work.

This will probably suck as a big budget title. At best it'll be a clone of games like Outlast but with alien skins.

It would totally rock as some indie game trying to recreate something along the lines of the C64 Alien game.

It's being developed by the guys who do the Total War games, oddly enough. It should be interesting to see their idea of "survival horror".

At least we know it won't be as bad as Colonial Marines.