Yesterday we reported that 20th Century Fox had trademarked the name “Alien: Isolation” in relation to a video game and overnight, Kotaku have done a bit of digging and have uncovered fresh evidence.
According to their source, the game will star Ellen Ripley’s daughter, Amanda, who is mentioned a couple of times in the films. The game will be on both current and next gen consoles.
The source says the game is being developed by Creative Assembly, and that ties in with job listing posted by that developer over a year ago and later confirmed by the holder of the Aliens license, Sega.
Sega is said to have taken the critical reception to Aliens: Colonial Marines “very seriously” and want to make a much better game. It is said to be in the style of Bioshock or Dishonored with just one Alien for “most” of the game. Enemies will be clones and soldiers, with melee attacks, vents and lockers playing “a big part” in the title which is heavily influenced by the first Alien film.
Apparently the game was meant to be shown at E3 this year but was held back by Sega.
It all sounds rather good, the beasties in Aliens: Colonial Marines were just too easy to kill, there was no tension, no horror. With a single xenomorph scampering through air vents this may be the Alien game we have been waiting for.
There again, everyone said that about Colonial Marines.
Source: Kotaku
NotSmartEnough
Amanda Ripley-McLaren. Married name I guess?
TSBonyman
I guess the lockers are for hiding in and the emphasis on melee make it sound more of a survival horror game .. sounds promising.
monkeyspoon
Why do they keep wanting to ruin the Aliens story. Leave Ripleys daughter out of it. Just invent new characters.
I still don’t know why they tried to say Hicks didn’t die and that he should be in Aliens CM.
DirtyHabit
How did they funding to do this? The last one was a car crash IMO..
Tuffcub
Still sold bucketlods.
Crazy_Del
Just NO! no no no goddammit No!!!!
Argh…..
OnlineAssassinOA
Calm down dear it’s only a commerc… Oh hang on
Crazy_Del
xD Haven’t heard the ‘Calm down dear….’ in years! lol
RudeAwakening
I don’t know this actually sounds quite interesting. It would be so amazing if they
created the game in the same vein as Amnesia, now that would be a truly scary Alien
game and worthy to stand beside the film.
The Von Braun
Ditch the clones/soldiers and the melee attacks-fer fecks sake melee attacking a Xeno…(err, excuse me sir…a xeno-what?) akin to a Bluebottle lashing out at a bull elephant and just have it as you (random character, not connected to Alien/Aliens/Ripley etc) being hunted/porsued by the Alien.
True survival game, you only having your wits, limited technology (you can fashion a crude motion tracker, flame-thrower, cattle prod etc) etc to hand.
You could seal off vents, weld them shut, but that takes time, what if Xeno is lurking right behind you?….vent areas of the ship/space station (something like Dead space II’s under used mechanic of blowing out glass having harsh vacum of space drag anything out of room).
If they could get an atmospheric Alien game running on the C64/ZX Spectrum, sure it can be done on todays tech.