+ 3 friends online = AWESOME!

QTEs -- for when a facehugger or alien grabs you will be awesome.

Motion trackers, welding torches... gosh people, stop being cynical, this is the game we've been waiting for, like, forever since Cameron taught us how badass the Colonial Marines are!

Daigoji Gai

Maybe it's not a classic, but it's not that bad.

The AVP movies? Those were bad.

Which sucks, because the games on PC were a lot of fun back in the day...

They could have done a lot better with that - somehow, I don't know.

Might have something to do with the horrifying straight to DVD acting, scripting and effects that made it into theatres...

sir_carrot

Nexus6

[wayofthebadge.com]

enix2093

Yeah, I was like 8 ;)

DaiMacculate

krunkjuice

kylenalepa

Like someone else said, properly implemented QTEs allow gameplay in sections the core game design wasn't made to handle. It also allows for some entertaining deaths that aren't "you fall down going aagh".

Sunjammer

ratix240sx

Although I would love a creepy survival horror game based on the first one. Holy crap!

noamjamski

RIP Apone :(

Vegan Shinigami

I swear I can recite most of that movie off the top of my head after watching it 100+ times in my youth...

"Mutiple signals... they're closing... can't lock"

"Talk to me Hudsooooon.."

Yes, i'll be quiet now.

Vegan Shinigami

mandarin

As for the game itself I'm all for it as long as they allow for some intuitive commands for the rest of the squad if not playing in co-op. One thing about squad-shooters I never got around to enjoying is how giving orders to one's squadmates still wasn't intuitive.

Tull

MenaceIISobriety

And for those bagging on Alien 3, see the uncut version from the Quadrilogy pack. It is an EXCELLENT film, especially considering what David Fincher had to go through -- the theatrical release is just half of the film!

boopadoo

I read about Aliens in the newest Games Radar ... that shit sounds soooo hot!!! Also, there will be 4 player co-op baby! And Gearbox said that the co-op and single player versions of the game will be identical ... so none of that Rainbow Six: Vegas crap where it cuts the story from the game once you play co-op.

dead_red_eyes

ErskinPig

noamjamski

The movies scared the crap out of me as a kid, dunno if I could play this game lol

belo

ErskinPig

singlecoilpickup

Anyway this game looks quite awesome. The atmosphere of "Aliens" has definitely been re-created here.

Thaddeus_McGee

Shocky

Own it, love it.

wierzbowski

The art style in those screens looks spot on. If nothing else they've nailed the atmosphere of the second film.

crashlanding

cudthecrud

xbulletholes

Tull

rost

Dresarius

ibelli

mordennight

mordennight

exkon

HurricaneDave

MountainCool

Zootalor

Maybe if they were a bit more intuitive. Like the beginning of COD4 where you have to jump to the chooper-- it's not a practical jump you could make in game, but you're told to jump anyway. I think that sequence could have worked just as well without the "Press Space Bar" text on the screen to baby you along. In fact I didn't even have time to react to the text on screen and my friends usually don't either.

So instead of "OK press the fire button to beat this quick time event" you just die unless you decide "Oh hey, shooting seems like a good idea right now."

Hell, Dragon's Lair and Braindead 13 got it right without babying you, why can't we do that again?

Absent Blue

That's probably my all time favorite side scrolling beat 'em up. I wish they would put that on XBLA (along with Cadillacs and Dinosaurs)

Gray665

Fuzzba11

Gray665

new_pornographer

Tull

But then he IS referring to AVP

Also the majority of AVP source material - comics, books, videogames all have space marines. Hence Witzbold's discombobulation over there being two AVP films that deal a '10' in the 'gash' department so far.

new_pornographer

trav23

TempvsMortis

Also, unfortunately, Alien3 had come out by the time I began to devour the comics, books, and graphic novels so it was Billie and Wilks I read about rather than Newt and Hicks, the truth about which I didn't discover until several years later.

XvCowboyvX

Scioptic

Scioptic

I just hope 'building' the barricades doesn't start some tetris-esque minigame.

2) Micheal Biehn's likeness in this would be, by all accounts, awesome. I still remember the sample they used in Alien 3 on the SNES.

3) The AVP movies are beyond a joke. How on Earth did fox manage to foul up the pairing of two franchises as epic as Alien and Predator in one movie? Oh wait a sec, 'Paul Anderson' is the catch all answer here for the first movie. The sequel has no such excuse, but was 10x as awful!

new_pornographer

Alien 3 (The one on the prision planet) and Alien Reserrection didn't have space marines. I believe.

HurricaneDave

Scioptic

Pinhead

Tull

Pornosaur

Pinhead

They have a time and a place, so why not wait and see what happens?

@Witzbold: Me too. All of the classic weapons are a must- and I mean from the movies not AvP games. I'm glad they seem to be trying to mimick the look and feel of the movies with the dim flourescent lights that don't really do jack to light up the room. The clutter and old "futuristic" computer equipment. ;)

OrganicShadow

I mean what the fuck is an AVP movie with no goddamned space marines?

Witzbold

beckerist

DaiMacculate

Witzbold

Scioptic

fruitsofherwomb

As for the ideas people are throwing around about using QTE to get a facehugger or alien off you. Well the facehugger idea I can see (although personally I'd rather not have it used for that in the game), but the alien? You get a xenomorph on top of you, and that's all she wrote (especially if they intend to make the 'acid for blood' angle work properly). Game over man, game over. May as well just use harsh language ;)

Scioptic

mAaron

Witzbold

Tull

martapp

FightingChance

Gamebrain87

TeaBean

exion

FlimFlaminus

I agree, and I'll even bundle Assassin's Creed's bullshit "press one button to perform climbing, free-running, jumping from building to building without needing any skill whatsoever" control system in with this, as well.

In fact, QTE's are more complicated and entertaining than climbing around in AC ever was.

Groodle

Atari games are more game than QTE. It's part of the problem of gaming becoming movies instead of more-interactive games.

Anyway, I really hope this turns out awesome. Gearbox + Aliens? How can that fail... I hope.

GhaleonUnlimited

QTE are often used in an attempt to make things more cinematic, such as "press x y and z and then something will happen that you wouldn't normally be able to do with your character". Fine. The main problem comes when you look at the level of interactivity in the game.

If you take a game that has a lot of cutscenes for example, well that game is already pulling you out of the interactive experience of the game by making you sit and watch and not act. This is when QTE can be a good idea, as they're at least pulling you back into the game.
With a FPS, lets take Half Life as our example, there are no cutscenes, and so to have our normal control taken away from us and replaced for a second with a QTE, is a very jarring experience lessening our sense of being in the game (if HL had them that is). To put it simply it does the opposite of what it's designed for.
Now I know that it's rare for a game not to have any cutscenes at all, but I feel that with FPS games there is a heightened sense of involvement as we're seeing everything through the main characters own eyes, so anything that pulls us out of that world is always going to be a bad thing (in my opinion).

Heck, if you're going to QTE, at least aim for a system where we don't automatically have to use them, such as it's the users choice to be able to trigger them or not, and that it's perfectly fine to go around them all together.

As I said, there's a time and a place.

Scioptic

God *bleep* it. Those are second only to escort missions on the list of things I hate.

Tale

HurricaneDave

Because.......? :-)

I won't pre-judge a game just because it has QTEs, as long as the QTEs basically replace cutscenes I'm fine with them.

I kind of hate cutscenes in most games now, thanks Square.

DaiMacculate

Rodent

doctorwily

Modus_Operandi

Fulgurator

Allaby

Besides, how else does one fight off a facehugger without just shaking the ever-loving crap out of a Sixaxis? I know I'd break all of my controllers if that were the case. Yeesh.

You can't snipe them all out of the air Chow Yun Fat-style as they're flying at your face. =)

Looking /forward/ to this game.

Cheshiregecko

Witzbold

doctorwily

And on the point of QTE's, in context i don't mind them. I'd rather have a limited interaction with what's going on than just sit and watch it play out.

nottsville

Well... I don't have anything against that feature, in fact it adds more interactivity to the game rather than just watching a cinema or eating a snack. At least it was cool on Resident Evil 4... right?

But yeah, I hope they make good use of QTE's. (not interrupting the gameplay so drastically or abuse them)

Han Daimond

jayntampa

Jaysius

Fulgurator

Now in this current/next gen platform it feels like a forced issue, something stuffed down your throat just for a change of scenery

JakeDunn

Witzbold

Bearskopff

DaiMacculate

If there are actions the player needs to perform then build it into the normal control mechanics to begin with, dont take me out of play to force me to perform them within a certain time limit else i'll be killed and have to do them again.

It just looks like lazy game design and becomes an annoying on-a-rail beat-matching blight rather than a fun and exciting sequence that tests your skills.

Arcon

Is there an Alien sneaking up on me from behind...?

I dunno. o_O

hondo

Hope they do make effective use of the acid blood, would be kool if u had to use it to get through some floors or somet (red faction style).

GFX-187

Suigyoken

for example.

Witzbold

Black_Ops_19

osiris83

What's wrong with QTE's?
Well, at first it wasn´t a bad idea, it was innovative and cool, but now they are only a cheap way to get action scenes in a videogame without investing in REAL gameplay. It's like watching a DVD while playing Simon.

Fulgurator

Mr Fortitude

DaiMacculate

I don't get it.

Han Daimond

Sunjammer

On the other hand, Jericho's QTE's where just badly designed and too punishing if you missed a single button press. "Oh! Sorry, you where 0,1 seconds late, so now you die!"

Tieowbeijas

Expect a Zero Punctuation treat

muscrat_01

PollockRoc

looking forward to more games with qt events.

cooler_d00d

So... it's a first person Tower Defense game?

Sweet!

Northernsky

Laidbackga

Fulgurator

Arcon