Sega to unleash more Aliens

PALGN News | First title based off the classic franchise to be released by 2008.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Sega has secured the rights to publish a series of games based on the Alien movie franchise.

Apparently, Sega is working on at least two Alien titles, including a first-person shooter and a role-playing game, with the first to be released in 2008. Sega are also hoping to obtain the voice talents from several actors from the movies, including Sigourney Weaver and Lance Henriksen, to reproduce their movie personas for the games.

To avoid anymore butchery of the original movies, Sega has mentioned that the company will avoid following the story lines of any of the four films, preferring to provide fans with a new experience based on various Alien source material, where gamers can expect to find answers to questions that were once left unanswered and the return of familiar characters.

Alien is a multi-million dollar franchise, having accumulated almost $557USD million (roughly AU$737 million or £437 million) in worldwide box-office sales, and has seen its brand plastered on lunchboxes and video games ever since its 1979 debut.

Despite Sega acquiring the Alien brand, Fox has maintained the Alien vs. Predator franchise for now, with there being a second film currently in production and due in late 2007. The article suggests that a tie-in game for the film is a possibility.

We’ll have more on the future Alien titles as soon as it becomes available.

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9 Comments

Karai Pantsu

6 years ago

An Aliens RPG produced by Sega? Could be promising! I'll have to keep an eye on that!

Lord Halo Nerd

6 years ago

Maybe good but an RPG on Aliens?

Karai Pantsu

6 years ago

A Facehugger appears!
Facehugger attacks! Player is infected!

> Attack, Item, One-liner?
>>One-liner

Player: It's Game over man, Game over!

Seriously though, I really think that an Aliens RPG could be a good game. There's a pretty cool and well established universe to build an story in, so long as it's all done carefully.

Lord Halo Nerd

6 years ago

Karai Pantsu wrote

A Facehugger appears!
Facehugger attacks! Player is infected!

> Attack, Item, One-liner?
>>One-liner

Player: It's Game over man, Game over!

Seriously though, I really think that an Aliens RPG could be a good game. There's a pretty cool and well established universe to build an story in, so long as it's all done carefully.

i agree yeah
but all well go worse if Predators are included and a character like Arnie is introduced in the game

rodvcpetrie

6 years ago

I am really excited by this, but will contain my excitement until the end of 2007. Ever since that Alien project was ditched I've wanted to see another Aliens video-game. I hope they can get the voice actors from the films because that would add to the authenticity.

"We're in some real pretty shit now man!"

ObsoletE

6 years ago

i was actually wondering how an Alien RPG would be pulled off, the pacing of the films doesn't really suit the general pacing of an RPG.

i thought initially it might work as a similar plot as the first or third films, but then with only one xenomorph, it seems a little less likely:
"You Killed: Xenomorph
You Gain 550 Experience."
then what? you've just killed the only enemy.

however based on Aliens, or Alien Resurrection wouldn't suit the pacing, like i said. those were more based on panic action. as survival horror games, they would work fantastically (AVP2 had this element for the Space Marine campaign, worked well), but i don't see an RPG working, as such.

i guess a hack-n-slash style RPG might work on the 2nd/4th films, but it'll run the risk of appearing too much like StarCraft, or at the very least, competing against it.

regardless, i'm excited. i love the Alien series, and more games is A-OK with me.

GroovySamurai

6 years ago

Wow I loved Alien Vs Predator and Primal Hunt on PC. It will be interesting to see a good graphic Alien FPS, might turn out something like doom! And a RPG? Will be interesting to see how that turns out!

Sin Ogaris

6 years ago

AvsP and its sequal were exceptional. It was like Starcraft in First Person (I mean the variety of play types). I do agree with Obsolete though, I can't really imagine how this would work, Aliens worked well as an adventure (that old game rocked) and it would also be a brilliant survival horror title. RPG not so much, unless of course it was a survival horror with RPG elements (upgradable weaponry, armours, openended structure, etc), that could definitely work.

Karai Pantsu

6 years ago

Sin Ogaris wrote

RPG not so much, unless of course it was a survival horror with RPG elements (upgradable weaponry, armours, openended structure, etc), that could definitely work.

That got me thinking - you know what Aliens would be perfectly suited to? That action/SRPG hybrid style of gameplay seen in the early XCOM games, and more recently Rebelstar: Tactical Command on GBA. Although I wonder if that's a viable choice for a (assumedly) big-budget game these days?

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