Aliens game in the pipeline from Fox's video games division

[ik9000]

The gameplay must serve the plot, though, which means the plot has to be good to begin with or people will get bored.


Don't you?
The first rounds in the film are fired when a child runs across a corridor and a jumpy Marine gets trigger-happy.
The next time, it's use of a flame thrower which only then then kicks off the attack... and it's their fault in the first place.

However, I doubt most people will wait for a few hours before anything to shoot even shows up, else it'd make for very boring gameplay and questionable plot as armed and armoured space marines with nothing to do. Realistic perhaps, but very boring.

Part of this is just the precedent laid by previous Aliens games, but also what I'll call Hudson Syndrome - They want a stand-up fight, not another bug hunt.

If you make it a bug hunt, like Isolation, the gameplay will have to remain highly engaging for however many hours before there are things to shoot.

LOL they use the flame thrower because they find an alien bursting out of a person's chest. The attack was going to happen whether they used the flame thrower or not. And shooting at something MOVING in a corridor when they think everyone is dead and expect an alien is reasonable. It backs up my comment - shoot when there's something to shoot at.

[Ttaskmaster]

LOL they use the flame thrower because they find an alien bursting out of a person's chest. The attack was going to happen whether they used the flame thrower or not.

The attack was still initiated by them. The xeno was just behaving naturally and could have been handled without lighting up the entire place, thus avoiding the attack. The only reason the hive broke hibernation and attacked is because the Marines disturbed it.

And shooting at something MOVING in a corridor when they think everyone is dead and expect an alien is reasonable. It backs up my comment - shoot when there's something to shoot at.

A professional soldier here to find and rescue civillians, and with no real evidence of aliens or any other kind of threat, just cuts loose with a high powered support weapon without even checking his target... you think action-loving gamers with itchy mouse fingers will be any better?

But again, it still takes 57 minutes and 38 seconds of atmosphere building just to get to this point.
Who, without anything to shoot, is going to spend that long playing a game from a franchise generally famed for its action and shooting?
It needs decent plot to drive the gameplay.

[ik9000]

The attack was still initiated by them. The xeno was just behaving naturally and could have been handled without lighting up the entire place, thus avoiding the attack. The only reason the hive broke hibernation and attacked is because the Marines disturbed it.


A professional soldier here to find and rescue civillians, and with no real evidence of aliens or any other kind of threat, just cuts loose with a high powered support weapon without even checking his target... you think action-loving gamers with itchy mouse fingers will be any better?

But again, it still takes 57 minutes and 38 seconds of atmosphere building just to get to this point.
Who, without anything to shoot, is going to spend that long playing a game from a franchise generally famed for its action and shooting?
It needs decent plot to drive the gameplay.

One is a game, the other a film. You don't make them the same way, nor do you have to.

Acid burns through the metal floor and you say no reason to suspect anything - sure. Right. Let's just agree to disagree shall we.

[Ttaskmaster]

One is a game, the other a film. You don't make them the same way, nor do you have to.

It still needs an engaging plot that directly relates to the film(s) and supports whatever gameplay you opt for. This is where most previous games have suffered.

Acid burns through the metal floor and you say no reason to suspect anything - sure. Right. Let's just agree to disagree shall we.

You're in the colony complex of an untamed, unexplored, half-terraformed planet that has all manner of kit, from explosive seismic survey charges to nuclear atmosphere processors and laboratories, with any number of substances that could have had such an effect.
The only evidence you have so far is some crazy woman who blamed aliens for her blowing up a massively expensive spaceship and potentially murdering her own crew.




And because of Hudson: