Founded in 1992, Rebellion Software became known worldwide shortly after the release of Alien vs. Predator for the Atari Jaguar, one of best games ever released for that system. Published by Atari, this first-person shooter took place entirely on a Colonial Marine Training base and allowed players play as one of three characters: Private Lance Lewis of the Colonial Marines whose mission is to find a way to self-destruct the base; an Alien that had to protect the Queen from the Marines and the Predators; a Predator whose mission was to kill the Alien Queen.
Fast forward to 2009 and following the release of two feature films that depicted Aliens fighting against Predators, SEGA has obtained the publishing rights to release a video game based on the Twentieth Century Fox’s Aliens universe. The Japanese publisher has hired the creators of the original 1994 Aliens versus Predator hoping the British developer will once again set a new standard in multiplayer gaming. Judging by the first screenshots and info revealed in two European magazines, there are chances Rebellion will succeed once more.
A world-exclusive preview in Nuts Magazine has revealed that this new Aliens vs Predator video game takes place in a distant, Earth-like planet thirty years after the first Alien movie. The planet has been subjugated by the nasty Xenomorphs and for that reason Colonial Marines have been dispatched to exterminate the parasitic creatures. With that war going on, guess who arrive to have their own party?
The preview in the British magazine has confirmed what every AVP fan expected: the game will feature three species-specific single-player campaigns plus three-way Alien vs. Predator vs. Human online multiplayer modes.
A preview on Spanish magazine PlayManía has the very first screenshots of the game and we must say they look fantastic. Lighting is superb and it helps set the frightening atmosphere you’d expect in those dark corridors infected of Aliens. The geometry and textures of the models look photorealistic and the game looks like a Twentieth Century Fox AvP film.
PlayManía confirms that Colonial Marines will be armed to the teeth and will carry lot of gadgets such as IR scanners to help detect movement, while Predators will have the ability to cloak and see through different visual frequencies, including infrared to track humans and a specifically tuned EM Field Detector used to track Aliens. The latter will be the fastest of the three species and they will be able to move through ceilings and walls, watch in the dark, fall from high altitudes without suffering damages, with their weapons being their claws, deadly tail and their acid blood.
We’ll have to wait until E3 next month to find out more about the single player campaign and multiplayer modes. Scheduled for release in 2010, Aliens vs. Predator is the third SEGA Aliens franchise game, which will be the first to launch in the series.
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