Supposed footage of Sega and Obsidian's now-canned Aliens RPG has appeared on the internet.
Last year the developer confirmed it was no longer working on the game, and will instead be pointing its attention at Alpha Protocol and Fallout: New Vegas.
Dealspwn writes: In 2011, Sega and Creative Assembly announced they were working on an Aliens title and bar one blurry monitor screenshot from a team photo at the CA studio, we've seen nothing of it since.
However, in an MCV [print edition] interview, Sega's European boss Jurgen Post said, "Aliens is still one of our pillars. In May 2011 we announced that Creative Assembly is doing something with that brand - we've said nothing else so you have to read between the lines there."
This will be more of a strategy game, its the creative assembly, look at their portfolio of games. why any one ever thought this was cancelled confuses me. they're still taking on QA testers for it as we speak.
PLEASE be good, I fail to understand how no one can make a decent Aliens ANYTHING anymore, this game will be the last chance I give Aliens for another decade or so.
Kinda off topic but how about a Predator game that doesn't increase the national suicide rate as well, I may be asking for too much but just one great game is all I'm looking for. At least throw one in a Batman game or something...
Alien colonial marines should have been a brilliant game. With the original/proposed character classes & required skill bases for survival. Sadly to say Gearbox did not do their job & they took on a strategy of clearly lying to the consumer base. End result. Big pile of pants!
We get an even clearer look at what might have been with Obsidian's Aliens RPG as gameplay footage surfaces and a dev explains some of their design decisions.
Oh dear, for a sec my heart bumped because I had completely forgotten about that game... I forgot it had been cancelled too. And the game was nearly finished ?! Instead of this we got that Colonial Marines utter garbage. Wow, this industry is really unfair sometimes.
IncGamers: Original concept art provides a glimpse into the scrapped project.
That's a shame. An Aliens RPG sounds awesome, especially if it was made by Obsidian.
Such a shame this was canned. As soon as it was announced it jumped to the top of my most wanted list
Obsidian are awesome, unique underrated developers.
Too bad the RPG got canned, I would've personally preferred buying it over Colonial Marines, just for taking the license and doing something different with it.
Oh well, Gearbox is making Aliens CM, so that will be enough of an Aliens fix, coupled with Ridley Scott's Alien-prequel film Prometheus.
Two words - Alpha Protocol.
An alien RPG might be good but not by Obsidian. They remind me of Treyarch. The best thing they ever did was a sequel with an IP that someone else created - KOTOR. Look at their titles. They are a compendium of Part 2 and sequel to this or that.
And is their anyone that doesn't know the technical status of New Vegas when it was released?
They could have just made it their own IP...I don't see the need for an ALIENS movie-based RPG...Have some creativity please!