{"id":3621,"date":"2022-07-15T04:19:42","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T04:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/15\/aliens-is-finally-getting-a-new-singleplayer-action-horror-game\/"},"modified":"2022-07-15T04:19:42","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T04:19:42","slug":"aliens-is-finally-getting-a-new-singleplayer-action-horror-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/15\/aliens-is-finally-getting-a-new-singleplayer-action-horror-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Aliens is finally getting a new singleplayer ‘action horror’ game"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aliens: Fireteam<\/a> was a decent third-person cooperative shooter, and Aliens: Dark Descent<\/a> looks like a promising top-down cooperative shooter, but both share a critical problem: neither resemble Alien Isolation, one of the tensest, most terrifying horror games ever made. With the announcement of a new singleplayer Aliens game today, there’s renewed hope (at least, by me) that we’ll get something a little closer in spirit to that 2014 masterpiece.<\/p>\n

Simply titled Aliens, this new singleplayer game (I repeat “singleplayer” for deliberate emphasis) will be developed by Survios<\/a>, which has a history developing VR games, namely The Walking Dead Onslaught<\/a> and Sprint Vector<\/a>. According to Survios, the Unreal Engine 5 affair will be an “intense single-player, action horror game set in the iconic Alien universe”. The story will be set between the Alien and Aliens films, “where a battle hardened veteran has a vendetta against the Xenomorphs”.<\/p>\n

Given the “action” in “action horror”, it’s safe to assume this battle-hardened veteran will be armed well, because no one retaliates against Xenomorphs with their mere fists. So we probably shouldn’t expect something too <\/em>close to Alien Isolation, but maybe something closer to Resident Evil, or Dead Space, or the forthcoming Callisto Protocol.<\/p>\n

More info on the game will come during San Diego Comic-Con on July 21, but it’s confirmed for consoles, PC, and VR, suggesting it’ll be playable in both VR and on a regular ol’ screen.<\/p>\n

As for that other forthcoming Aliens game, Aliens: Dark Descent, that’s still scheduled to arrive some time in 2023. It’s a top-down, twin-stick shooter cooperative game, which\u2026 you do you, 20th Century Games, but it’s time to make a scary Aliens game again.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[#item_image]Aliens is finally getting a new singleplayer ‘action horror’ game<\/p>\n

Aliens: Fireteam<\/a> was a decent third-person cooperative shooter, and Aliens: Dark Descent<\/a> looks like a promising top-down cooperative shooter, but both share a critical problem: neither resemble Alien Isolation, one of the tensest, most terrifying horror games ever made. With the announcement of a new singleplayer Aliens game today, there’s renewed hope (at least, by me) that we’ll get something a little closer in spirit to that 2014 masterpiece.<\/p>\n

Simply titled Aliens, this new singleplayer game (I repeat “singleplayer” for deliberate emphasis) will be developed by Survios<\/a>, which has a history developing VR games, namely The Walking Dead Onslaught<\/a> and Sprint Vector<\/a>. According to Survios, the Unreal Engine 5 affair will be an “intense single-player, action horror game set in the iconic Alien universe”. The story will be set between the Alien and Aliens films, “where a battle hardened veteran has a vendetta against the Xenomorphs”.<\/p>\n

Given the “action” in “action horror”, it’s safe to assume this battle-hardened veteran will be armed well, because no one retaliates against Xenomorphs with their mere fists. So we probably shouldn’t expect something too <\/em>close to Alien Isolation, but maybe something closer to Resident Evil, or Dead Space, or the forthcoming Callisto Protocol.<\/p>\n

More info on the game will come during San Diego Comic-Con on July 21, but it’s confirmed for consoles, PC, and VR, suggesting it’ll be playable in both VR and on a regular ol’ screen.<\/p>\n

As for that other forthcoming Aliens game, Aliens: Dark Descent, that’s still scheduled to arrive some time in 2023. It’s a top-down, twin-stick shooter cooperative game, which\u2026 you do you, 20th Century Games, but it’s time to make a scary Aliens game again.<\/p>\n

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