Alien Colonial Marines Not Dead, Coming Next Year

Nicholas "bapenguin" Puleo June 16th, 2009 at 7:55 AM    


 

Right now we all should have been knee deep in xenomorph carcasses.  Aliens Colonial Marines was originally planned for an early June release, but has since all but disappeared from release schedules.  Instead we saw publisher Sega choosing to hype up a brand new, and non co-op, Alien vs. Predator title.  We feared the worst, thinking the four player co-op shooter from Gearbox was canceled.  Thankfully that's not the case.

Gearbox president Randy Pitchford has told Kotaku the game is now a 2010 release, and then when the game does release we'll also see a Nintendo DS version.  No word on if that version will have co-op or not.

So why did it get pushed back and AvP get the limelight?  Here's the official statement from Sega PR
 

"Aliens vs. Predator will be the first to ship out of our triplet of Aliens titles; hence it was shown at this year's E3. We'll have more news to share about the other two games in the near future so stay tuned."

Doesn't tell us much, huh?  The other game mentioned is the Aliens RPG being developed by Obsidian.  We'll all have to wait a bit longer to get our co-op Alien action on unfortunately, hopefully it'll be worth the wait.

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10 Total Reader Comments

Biohzrd451 at 02:58 AM on 6.16.2009
Glad to hear it was not canned, it was one of the titles I was really looking forward to because combining what made l4d awesome and throwing in aliens instead of zombies is nothing short of awesome.
 
Silverblur2 at 04:45 AM on 6.16.2009
I totally agree ! ! ! ! !
 
smurphster at 04:48 AM on 6.16.2009
this game looks like it will be fun. i'm glad they're getting borderlands out first though. what's w/ gbx lately? it seems like everything is being pushed a year or more. do they have too much on their plate?

i thought this was going to have more of a story though. biohzrd makes it sound like there's none (L4D has very little story to it).
 
Biohzrd451 at 04:57 AM on 6.16.2009


Hehe i was making that reference due to the 4 player co-op and being in a similar situation, haven't heard anything about the story yet.
 
Zonf86 at 05:00 AM on 6.16.2009
Very pleased to hear it's still in the making. Was (and now still are) extremely excited about the prospect of a co-op aliens game!
 
smurphster at 05:44 AM on 6.16.2009

ah ok... makes sense
 
Mrxknown_JG at 06:39 AM on 6.16.2009
Yea, the story is suppose to take place between (I think) Aliens & Aliens 3.

As a team of marines investigate the Sulaco after the second movie.

I'm very glad this is still coming. I think I would have bought this & Borderlands this year if this had come out. Would have made Gearbox my Dev of the Year.

I agree smurphster it seems not only Gearbox, but Obsidian also has a bit on their plate. Let's hope the titles don't get drowned out by their other works.
 
bigDinyomouth at 07:33 AM on 6.16.2009
who honestly wants the the watered down console version? Its the DS version everyone should look out for!
 
phrozenfearz at 09:02 AM on 6.16.2009
Best news I've heard all month!! Thanks!
 
BigBadBob113 at 09:19 AM on 6.16.2009
Ive been pumped for this game, and am glad to hear it didnt get lost in the shuffle.
 


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