Posts Tagged ‘aliens’
Indie Studio Unveiling Xbox 360 FPS
In an increasingly technologically enabled word the control of certain industries is being challenged by the formerly passive consumers. Independent films have existed for years but now thanks to better quality digital cameras and video editing software included for free on some computers anyone with a vision can bring it to life. Musicians have been at this for quite some time, though the advent of the internet and sites like Myspace and Youtube made it incredibly easy to spread your music to waiting ears.
Now the gaming industry is seeing lots of small studios making games for WiiWare, Xbox Live Arcade and the PlayStation Store. WXP Games has been working on an FPS titled Exod Intervention for ten years, with full production having started two years ago by a team of nine people. As with most FPS games it has a decidedly sci-fi bent, though it’s a bit more interesting than the standard alien invasion idea. Facing their imminent demise, humanity sends out an ark designed to find a habitable planet and resurrect humanity. The name of this last hope? Project Exod.
After a century of drifting through space the ark has found a suitable planet called Dagoth. You play the Planetary Custodian, a bioengineered creature designed to prepare the new human homeworld. To assist in this end you’ve been equipped by the ‘BioCode’ with a bug-like weapon that can evolve over time. Of course there’s something else on this planet, a lifeform that wants to destroy all other life. The game is set to release this fall.
First Details On New AVP Game
The Alien and Predator franchises are the biggest sci-fi powerhouses to be created since Star Wars and Star Trek. Despite the huge let-down of the long anticipated Alien Versus Predator films, the continuing battle between the vicious aliens and the honorable predators (not to mention the humans getting caught in the middle) still delights fans.
We’re now getting the first details regarding a new Alien Versus Predator game which is being developed by Rebellion, the team who created the original 1999 classic. If you’ve played either of the other two games the overall setup won’t be surprising. Its a first person shooter with a different storyline for each species, though the events of each will swirl together and inform each other.
The marine will rely on his array of fancy gadgets and weapons to help him against the more numerous and physically superior creatures, the predator uses his own gadgets and hunting skills to survive while the alien uses stealth, superior senses and sheer single-minded fury. There will also be a three-way multiplayer mode with each species battling for superiority.
The game is a multiplatform release, with versions for the PC, Xbox 360 and PS3 all planned to release in early 2010.
Ex-Obsidian Staffer: Aliens RPG Cancelled
Rumors that Sega has canned Obsidian’s long-in-development Aliens RPG has been confirmed by former Obsidian designer David Kondor. This comes from his LinkedIn profile that lists him as a “designer for canceled third-person action Aliens RPG” at Obsidian from April 2008 to February 2009.
The game was announced back in 2006, but very few updates from the studio were given since. Rumors of its cancellation surfaced earlier this month. Sega is said to also be reviewing other Aliens games in the pipeline.
Sega and Obsidian are yet to officially address the rumors.