Aliens: Fireteam was an honest third-person cooperative shooter, and Aliens: Darkish Descent appears like a promising top-down cooperative shooter, however each share a essential downside: neither resemble Alien Isolation, one of many tensest, most terrifying horror video games ever made. With the announcement of a brand new singleplayer Aliens sport in the present day, there’s renewed hope (no less than, by me) that we’ll get one thing slightly nearer in spirit to that 2014 masterpiece.
Merely titled Aliens, this new singleplayer sport (I repeat “singleplayer” for deliberate emphasis) shall be developed by Survios, which has a historical past creating VR video games, particularly The Strolling Lifeless Onslaught and Dash Vector. In keeping with Survios, the Unreal Engine 5 affair shall be an “intense single-player, motion horror sport set within the iconic Alien universe”. The story shall be set between the Alien and Aliens movies, “the place a battle hardened veteran has a vendetta towards the Xenomorphs”.
Given the “motion” in “motion horror”, it is protected to imagine this battle-hardened veteran shall be armed effectively, as a result of nobody retaliates towards Xenomorphs with their mere fists. So we in all probability should not anticipate one thing too near Alien Isolation, however possibly one thing nearer to Resident Evil, or Lifeless House, or the forthcoming Callisto Protocol.
Extra information on the sport will come throughout San Diego Comedian-Con on July 21, but it surely’s confirmed for consoles, PC, and VR, suggesting it will be playable in each VR and on an everyday ol’ display screen.
As for that different forthcoming Aliens sport, Aliens: Darkish Descent, that is nonetheless scheduled to reach a while in 2023. It is a top-down, twin-stick shooter cooperative sport, which… you do you, twentieth Century Video games, however it is time to make a scary Aliens sport once more.
