SAN FRANCISCO & LONDON (February 8, 2013) - SEGA® of America, Inc., SEGA® Europe Ltd., Gearbox Software and Twentieth Century Fox Consumer Products announced today a Season Pass promotional program for their highly anticipated release of Aliens™: Colonial Marines on February 12, 2013 worldwide.
Customers who purchase the Season Pass at participating retailers online or in store will receive all four upcoming pieces of downloadable content, which will feature new campaign as well as multiplayer content, for PlayStation®Network, Xbox LIVE® and STEAM for $29.99/£19.99/€29.99/$29.99/2400 Microsoft Points. The Season Pass will give gamers access to all four upcoming packs of DLC, as they become available, at almost 40% savings over the individual purchase of the content.* SEGA, Gearbox Software and Twentieth Century Fox Consumer Products are set to announce further details on the content and release dates of the downloadable content soon. Additionally, the companies announced the game’s first post-launch downloadable content. Scheduled for March 2013, Aliens: Colonial Marines’ first additional content pack, “Bug Hunt” will throw players into an all-new multiplayer mode where they have to take on waves of increasingly difficult enemies in three brand new maps based on environments from the ALIENS film.
Aliens: Colonial Marines will bring new levels of bone-chilling suspense and adrenaline-filled action to the renowned franchise, as the authentic addition to the ALIENS franchise canon. The game’s stunning visuals and adrenaline pumping action will deliver a breathtakingly immersive four-player drop-in drop-out cooperative campaign and expansive competitive multiplayer with four different modes (Escape, Survivor, Team Deathmatch and Extermination). Providing an innovative, asymmetrical competitive multiplayer experience, Aliens: Colonial Marines lets players fight in first person as the ultimate badasses – the United States Colonial Marines - or in third person as the universe’s deadliest killers – the Xenomorphs. Plunging into familiar and new environments from the iconic film franchise, players will have to fight the fear and face the true horrors of the ALIENS universe.
Aliens: Colonial Marines will be available in stores across the globe on February 12, 2013 on PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system, Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and Windows PC. A release date for the announced Wii U™ version will be revealed at a later time.
Redmask wrote on Feb 11, 2013, 07:30:
Hilarious image from the games sewer section, I ripped it out of a youtube video. Zombie Aliens in an obligatory Sewer level. I don't even know what to say.
http://s7.postimage.org/flptukx9l/1360578977973.gif
Verno wrote on Feb 12, 2013, 08:28:
Holy shit the reviews are just savaging this.
vrok wrote on Feb 12, 2013, 07:19:
I laugh in the face of anyone who bought this, or thought that it would be any good at all, despite all the countless warning signs. Just hilarious.
DangerDog wrote on Feb 9, 2013, 14:25:Jerykk wrote on Feb 9, 2013, 03:33:
There's usually enough information to judge a game before it comes out. Previews, walkthroughs, interviews, screenshots, trailers, videos, etc. Pay enough attention and you can make accurate predictions about any game.
That aside, the game is inherently flawed already because it's recycling the same game that's been made several times already. Alien Trilogy, AVP Jaguar, AVP PC, AVP2, AVP 2010... the Marine experience is the same in every one. To make yet another game like that is just dumb. If you're going to make an Aliens game, you need to do something new and interesting with the license.
Pretty sure none of those games listed had four player co-op, they're also all pretty outdated. Some of them I enjoyed even though they were "recycled" from the previous games. AVP 1 and 2. They did get some of the original cast involved this time, for a fan of Aliens that's pretty big. Not sure why the obsidian alien game was canceled, perhaps it just didn't come across that well for consoles. I would have bought it too.
Tech demos like Crysis 3 er I mean games has us all pretty spoiled with knowing what's capable graphics wise. Just too bad that we can't have a blending of the two into one game.
Mad Max RW wrote on Feb 9, 2013, 15:55:DangerDog wrote on Feb 9, 2013, 14:25:
Pretty sure none of those games listed had four player co-op, they're also all pretty outdated.
AvP1 has 8 player coop. And if you copied the singleplayer maps to the custom map folder you can play the entire campaign with other players (although it was limited to fighting versus aliens.
DangerDog wrote on Feb 9, 2013, 14:25:
Pretty sure none of those games listed had four player co-op, they're also all pretty outdated.
Jerykk wrote on Feb 9, 2013, 03:33:
There's usually enough information to judge a game before it comes out. Previews, walkthroughs, interviews, screenshots, trailers, videos, etc. Pay enough attention and you can make accurate predictions about any game.
That aside, the game is inherently flawed already because it's recycling the same game that's been made several times already. Alien Trilogy, AVP Jaguar, AVP PC, AVP2, AVP 2010... the Marine experience is the same in every one. To make yet another game like that is just dumb. If you're going to make an Aliens game, you need to do something new and interesting with the license.
Fantaz wrote on Feb 9, 2013, 05:09:
Yepp, I knew Gearbox would screw up the license the moment SEGA announced it... the Obsidian RPG would've probably been a better game. That was even "finished" already nearly 3 years ago!
Jerykk wrote on Feb 9, 2013, 03:33:
That aside, the game is inherently flawed already because it's recycling the same game that's been made several times already. Alien Trilogy, AVP Jaguar, AVP PC, AVP2, AVP 2010... the Marine experience is the same in every one. To make yet another game like that is just dumb. If you're going to make an Aliens game, you need to do something new and interesting with the license.
Jerykk wrote on Feb 9, 2013, 03:33:
There's usually enough information to judge a game before it comes out. Previews, walkthroughs, interviews, screenshots, trailers, videos, etc. Pay enough attention and you can make accurate predictions about any game.
That aside, the game is inherently flawed already because it's recycling the same game that's been made several times already. Alien Trilogy, AVP Jaguar, AVP PC, AVP2, AVP 2010... the Marine experience is the same in every one. To make yet another game like that is just dumb. If you're going to make an Aliens game, you need to do something new and interesting with the license.
I was able to snag the bluray collection pretty cheap on amazon a while back.
PHJF wrote on Feb 8, 2013, 20:17:nin wrote on Feb 8, 2013, 19:21:
I'm just going to crank up Aliens on blu tonight.
I have the fuckin quadrilogy box set with like 5000 discs on DVD so I can't really justify a move to BRD...