SSgt Burton
Sr Member
Angie, Chris and Sean! REPRESENT! :thumbsup 
Kevin
Kevin
Aliens: Colonial Marines
- Thread starter Sean Hebein
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Ok, this makes me even more excited to finally get my Colonial Marine done!
More details on how the Wii U version of Colonial Marines is going to work.
Three Amazing Things You'll Do With Aliens: Colonial Marines on the Wii U
My favorite and most OBVIOUS one?
"The device will, at times, become the game's motion tracker, a device in the fiction of the Alien universe that can track the location of enemies and friendlies by their motion.
Perfect!
Three Amazing Things You'll Do With Aliens: Colonial Marines on the Wii U
My favorite and most OBVIOUS one?
"The device will, at times, become the game's motion tracker, a device in the fiction of the Alien universe that can track the location of enemies and friendlies by their motion.
Perfect!
From Kotaku's Article...
This game opens shortly after the ending of Alien 3 with members of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation arriving at the Sulaco to investigate.
:angry
You play as Winter
Ok. For those of you who know how much I love to rant about stuff I hate, or those who like Alien3 in general, this is my opinion on the game's story line.
It sucks. Including the story to Alien3 is a mistake because all I'm seeing here is "Ripley was a failure in the movies because all her heroic actions only made things worse, so we have this group marine dudes to come in and do the work properly".
I know that's a bit extreme, but that's what I'm getting. You play a male marine character who is no doubt the hero of the story in a series that has made a mark for itself in having a female character take charge of the story and truly develop into a hero by the end of Aliens. Following up on Alien3 just destroys that prospect entirely since Alien3 deems Ripley's rescue of Newt as a mistake! The article even has this to say.
"They discover Aliens and with the help of Ellen Ripley, ALL DIE TRYING TO KILL THEM OFF."
*cocks shotgun*
I'll go first.
*aims below his jaw*
This game opens shortly after the ending of Alien 3 with members of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation arriving at the Sulaco to investigate.
:angry
You play as Winter
Ok. For those of you who know how much I love to rant about stuff I hate, or those who like Alien3 in general, this is my opinion on the game's story line.
It sucks. Including the story to Alien3 is a mistake because all I'm seeing here is "Ripley was a failure in the movies because all her heroic actions only made things worse, so we have this group marine dudes to come in and do the work properly".
I know that's a bit extreme, but that's what I'm getting. You play a male marine character who is no doubt the hero of the story in a series that has made a mark for itself in having a female character take charge of the story and truly develop into a hero by the end of Aliens. Following up on Alien3 just destroys that prospect entirely since Alien3 deems Ripley's rescue of Newt as a mistake! The article even has this to say.
"They discover Aliens and with the help of Ellen Ripley, ALL DIE TRYING TO KILL THEM OFF."
*cocks shotgun*
I'll go first.
*aims below his jaw*
Alan Cross
Sr Member
If that is indeed the story.... You're not wrong.
You're probably gonna want to take that shotgun out from under your jaw and point it at me first for mentioning this but...well here goes..........
Didn't AVP completely negate Ripley's mission to prevent the Aliens from reaching Earth by saying they had been there a long time ago? TPTB have kind of screwed her character enough by this point that I'd figure them saying she helped kill all those Marines can't really do that much more damage than has already been done.
Didn't AVP completely negate Ripley's mission to prevent the Aliens from reaching Earth by saying they had been there a long time ago? TPTB have kind of screwed her character enough by this point that I'd figure them saying she helped kill all those Marines can't really do that much more damage than has already been done.
This just pisses me off. Idiots need to stop trying to "improve" things. Do they really not have enough material to just have the story set in the Alien universe? Aliens are scary and are a big enough villain to stand on their own without extra s$#& piled on top. :angry
That's the issue that's always bothered me. Just one of those things, whether it be a warrior or Queen gets out of your sights, the world is theirs. It took only one face-hugger to bring an entire colony down. The fact that thousands were on the loose in ancient times and in modern times totally diminishes what ever world wide threat these creatures posed, especially in THE FUTURE!.
So it's not just Ripley that got diminished, it's also the Aliens.
rodneyfaile
Sr Member
Bill Paxton- "That's it man, game over man, game over!"
ghostryder
Legendary Member
Andy
Well-Known Member
I'm cautious but relatively optimistic with what I've seen and heard so far, the folks at Gearbox developing this title were also behind Borderlands which was hugely popular among our XBL group a few years back, if they can deliver as polished a multiplayer co-op component here as they did with that game this could potentially be quite an entertaining experience.
Love Borderlands so that is exciting to hear that group is developing this one!
...where are the female marines? Didn't ALIENS have kicka** female marines?
SSGT Kitten
Active Member
You know, there actually WAS a game just like this. No really. I played it on....the Commodore 64. It was pretty badass as I remember. Land the dropship, fight your way to the APC, crawl through the airducts, rescue Newt, and fight the Queen. And you could break movie canon and actually get most of the squad back alive.
It would rock if they redid that on a modern machine.
Having said that, I will probably at least try this new one. The last one that came out was meh, but I actually enjoyed Extinction.
Charlie
Alan Cross
Sr Member
The old Atari Jaguar, ALIENS vs. PREDATOR was all kinds of awesome. Looking forward to this one.
ghostryder
Legendary Member
Dave Ward
Sr Member
Yeah, there were two "Aliens" games on the C64, weren't there? The US and the UK version. I think the one you're talking about was the US version. The level where you had to get the squad out of the cocoon area was ace.
Flagg
Sr Member
That trailer has the feel of the old Alien 3 game for the Sega Genesis.
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