Aliens: Colonial Marines E3 Teaser!

[BlackWatch]

Stop your grinnin' and drop your linen, Fox and Gearbox have released a teaser trailer for the long, long, looooooongly anticipated tactial-shooter Aliens: Colonial Marines. Check. It. Out.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cFMMQie5RU" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cFMMQie5RU</a>

It's clear from the teaser that a squad of Colonial Marines discover the fate of the Sulaco and pay a visit to LV-426 for some fun in the sun. Better pack your sunscreen. Expect more at E3.

[beckmen]

What? Hadley's Hope was certainly nuked. Unless they pull some bullshit like having it take place during Aliens, and Ripley and Co. never came across the other marines or their ship...

[deezelboy]

Hadley's certainly looked wrecked to me. 

Cool Stuff:

Sephora's a Conrad reference.

http://66.194.172.6
Hostname: Father

(Checked it out last night and all that was up there was the video, but presume that will change given it's quite a circular reference!  Interestingly it redirects to 174.143.27.200, so I suspect that a main site will appear soon at 66.194.172.6)

Crap Stuff:

Doesn't bode well for quality control if they can't even spell 'rescinded' right in a trailer. 

[Sebastian]

The video at that IP address has a couple of extra seconds of gameplay. Looks scary as shit!

[Nick_MX]

Alright! About damned time!!

I'm looking forward to this, hmmmm, Spring 2012 - just in time for me to play Gears 3 and Batman Arkham City to death before I move onto my next gaming project.

[deezelboy]

The Alien jumping on top of your gun and then getting thrown off is a little bit... hokey?

Looks pretty cool though.

--EDIT--

Probably doesn't mean anything, but I just took a look at the metadata on the page:


   <meta name="author" content="Weyland-Yutani">
   <meta name="version" content="Sulaco Operation Protocol v1.2.8">
   <meta http-equiv="expires" content="Tue, 30 May 2180 00:00:00">


Set just shy of a year after Aliens?

[Nick_MX]

The Alien jumping on top of your gun and then getting thrown off is a little bit... hokey?

Maybe, but better than being able to wander round and beat up aliens, a-la AVP? I think an avoidance/counter move is needed, otherwise the players character would get a wee bit immulsified quite swiftly?

[deezelboy]

I'm ok with there being a blocking or pushing move, but being able to fling an Alien up and off the end of your gun does make them seem a bit... light.  How much do they weigh?

[Nick_MX]

I'm ok with there being a blocking or pushing move, but being able to fling an Alien up and off the end of your gun does make them seem a bit... light.  How much do they weigh?

Fair point...

Looking forward to some game play action though!

[Rich]

Nice! Another game to add to the wish list.

[beckmen]

This trailer made me dream about an Aliens TV series about the USCM. I think they were also occasionally fighting space pirates of some kind and combat androids. Now I want to see that happen...

[Darkfox]

Very good news, I would say. I mean, certainly something new (or "new") to look forward to. Of course it will take some time, but why not. I guess the point is if they this time really, seriously, are planning to release it.

[Company Man]

This trailer made me dream about an Aliens TV series about the USCM. I think they were also occasionally fighting space pirates of some kind and combat androids. Now I want to see that happen...

Wouldn't be to hard really. Just focus it around a small platoon or squad like we have all ready seen. Toss in some minimalist action and questionable borderline dialog. ( Like put it on FX if not a good cable network ) You would not even have to introduce the aliens, as they are not widely known through out the cosmos.

[beckmen]

Wouldn't be to hard really. Just focus it around a small platoon or squad like we have all ready seen. Toss in some minimalist action and questionable borderline dialog. ( Like put it on FX if not a good cable network ) You would not even have to introduce the aliens, as they are not widely known through out the cosmos.

FX is a good cable network.

I was thinking more HBO, Showtime or Starz. You need that gore and fuckbombs. In my dream, the first season had just ended. 13 episodes. It showed potential. Then I was thinking how every episode wouldn't focus on aliens. There would be civil wars, company treachery, androids run amok, Jockeys, Predators*, etc. Continuity nazis would hate it.

*-Late in the series, and mysterious. We wouldn't even know what they are called, as they would always refuse to communicate with our species.

[dude]

Fuck all that

I'd make it 2 hours of Black Hawk Down in space theatrical epicness.

As for the game, would the USCM really just send another squad when Apone's crew went missing?