Aliens: Colonial Marines E3 Teaser!

[Hudson]

I don't think that 17 days is unrealistic because we don't have to assume that the rescue will come from Gateway. For instance, even now, if something was declared overdue or something went wrong, we wouldn't send a ship from Norfolk, or San Diego.  It would already be somewhere in the Atlantic or Pacific.

Elgyn mentions regulated space in AR, I would assume that means patrols are regularly circulating.

[Company Man]

Nor would it necessarily be Marines. But whatever allied military unit that is geographically close and capable to mount a rescue operation.

[beckmen]

Alien Resurrection takes place too long after Aliens to really dissect how things like that worked.

But it's logical that a limited-resourced rescue ship could be dispatched from a much closer system. Not a platoon full of Marines, but like four Coast Guards capable of doing a scoop and run rather than bona fide military reinforcement.

[Company Man]

You know.. the United States Coast Guard took casualties in Vietnam, and seen action in Desert Storm.

[alien_tattoo]

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qsI3wiLjDo" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qsI3wiLjDo</a>


From  Den of Geek:

"A far more encouraging look at the game came from an unlikely source: the preview footage from Nintendo’s forthcoming, incredibly weird Wii U console. Crammed in among the numerous third-party releases scheduled for the system was no less than 23 seconds of in-game footage. Since the Wii U is said to be technically on a par with the Xbox 360 and PS3, it’s not unreasonable to suspect that this is a fair representation of the finished game on those consoles, too."

Link: http://www.denofgeek.com/games/933180/video_snippet_shows_first_glimpse_of_aliens_colonial_marines_gameplay.html

[beckmen]

You know.. the United States Coast Guard took casualties in Vietnam, and seen action in Desert Storm.

Yeah, but they're typically patrolling and performing rescues, not going on the offensive right?

That gameplay footage looks interesting. Graphics seem quite good, even if it's hard to see with all that bloody compression. Looks the alien jumping on the gun thing happens when the Marine is on the ground on his back, which makes more sense.

[Company Man]

Yeah, but they're typically patrolling and performing rescues, not going on the offensive right?

Mostly support. But they still have gun mounted ships. Sometimes your pushed into the defensive and have to resort to the offensive. as in if your patrolling a hostile war zone, you are in the fight on a daily basis. Wether you are support or strictly rescue or anything.

[Rich]

No matter what branch you are in or what kind of job you have you will be trained to fight on the basic level for good reasons Company Man has brought up. In Canada they say that you may be a cargo pilot or a truck driver, a doctor, a guy in the airfield command towers, a sonar operator, a telephone guy or a cook but everyone is a soldier first.

In Canada our Coast Guard is civilian and not military meaning the Army, Navy and Air Force could be called upon for any patrol or rescue at sea or smaller bodies of water including serious floods in war zones, Navy/Air Force probably being the obvious first choices.

[beckmen]

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niHx-XGUW0Y" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niHx-XGUW0Y</a>

I like that Sid Mead was involved.

[Sebastian]

Haha, all info aside - that was a pretty funny interview. But I really do want to see more footage of it!
I wonder what the bull/rhino alien will look like. There was a rhino alien in the Half-Life mod Natural Selection.

[Hudson]

In one way I'm sad that I have to wait all the way till spring of 2012 for this game, but in another way it's a good thing. I mean...it's for damn certain that this game hasn't been rushed. There's plenty of development time to go around to give us a nice final product. That being said, if ACM sucks...then there's absolutely no excuse for it whatsoever. And, I mean...when was the last time there was actually a good Alien game? Almost ten years ago. So, I'm kind of uncertain where to set my expectations for this. It looks good, but so did AvP.

[Sebastian]

Well I have faith in Gearbox. Duke Nukem Forever might've been a flop but the fault for that was (honestly) not theirs. It was a shit game to begin with.

If it's Brothers in Arms with Aliens then I'm game!

[Nick_MX]

In one way I'm sad that I have to wait all the way till spring of 2012 for this game, but in another way it's a good thing. I mean...it's for damn certain that this game hasn't been rushed. There's plenty of development time to go around to give us a nice final product. That being said, if ACM sucks...then there's absolutely no excuse for it whatsoever. And, I mean...when was the last time there was actually a good Alien game? Almost ten years ago. So, I'm kind of uncertain where to set my expectations for this. It looks good, but so did AvP.

Hmm, I dunno, when I saw the Predator Level 1 playthrough, I thought it looked a bit clunky and potentially dull, which it mostly was.

I agree though, we are fully overdue a decent atmospheric Alien game. AVP is OK - barely - but comes waaaaay down on the list of re-playable games. Same as Bulletstorm.

In my opinion, Spring 2012 is fine - May 1st would be perfect for me, because I'll be married by then, back from Honeymoon with no money to go out.

Seeing as I already pre-ordered Gears3 and Batman AC, if this came out at Christmas time - just about enough time to play GoW and Batman to death - my fiance would probably leave me!!