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#1 2008-02-14 1:02 am
- Bat
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Gearbox' coming Aliens game
Yuppers, a new Aliens shooter. Gearbox, we have heard of them.
Gearbox Software knows a thing or two about soldiering—its Brothers in Arms games have even been used to recreate key World War II battles on the History Channel. With those kind of qualifications, it seems like they’d be the perfect developer to tackle a game about Marines. Make that United States Colonial Marines. You got it—Aliens: Colonial Marines is invading consoles and PCs in 2009. We have a world-exclusive first look at the squad-based FPS, which aims to recapture the tension and desperation of the earlier films. Check out the first-ever screens of the game in action. If that’s not enough, we have the first look at Cryptic Studios’ latest superhero MMO, Champions Online. The City of Heroes developers are taking on PCs and consoles, too, letting us all unleash our inner heroes—or villains. We also take Red Faction: Guerrilla apart, getting an in-depth look at the game’s amazing destructible environments. Read about these games and much, much more in the new issue of Game Informer—the first place you’ll see God of War: Chains of Olympus reviewed.
Don't forget Halo PC and the Half-Life expansions before that. Gearbox knows shooters.
(Or those other games, overlook them not).
Pray for cross-platform Aliens vs Marines play! 
http://www.gameinformer.com/News/Story/ … .09335.htm
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#2 2008-02-14 2:00 am
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Re: Gearbox' coming Aliens game
OMG WOOT!
I remember when they canceled the Coloninal Marines game cause they could never perfect the AI but if theres a chance it will come back...freaken awesome! The visuals on it back when it was in dev were sweet! I was so ticked when they announced it had been canceled.
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#3 2008-02-14 7:38 pm
Re: Gearbox' coming Aliens game
I can't even play either of the AVP games. They scare the fudge out of me. Way worse than DOOM3. I'll probably buy it anyway though.
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#4 2008-02-14 8:30 pm
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Re: Gearbox' coming Aliens game
I loved AvP Gold and AvP 2. Greatest fun I had doing LAN parties, second only to Tribes and Tribes 2.
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#5 2008-02-15 12:19 am
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Re: Gearbox' coming Aliens game
lol if those scared you, you should play the originals like the old Jaguar version. Sprite graphics but it is freakier than the new 3D ones by far 
. Found the new ones rather tame compared to the originals. Tho AVP2 was a lil better since you could be the facehugger in multiplayer and scare ppl to death by jumping on them.
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#6 2008-02-15 1:03 am
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I just scared the death out of myself.
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#7 2008-02-15 1:10 pm
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Re: Gearbox' coming Aliens game
IcarusFountain wrote:
I loved AvP Gold and AvP 2. Greatest fun I had doing LAN parties, second only to Tribes and Tribes 2.
Darn it, you would remind me that, like MW4, that's at least one that got away. (I have a dim memory of picking up the original for $4-5 at a defunct compy show). Mistake at the $10 price point, like Homeworld & SS2; but Time, she is ever in short supply. Shame they've all but disappeared from shelves. Young 'uns have so much more (time, that is).
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