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Aliens: Colonial Marines is a squad-based first-person shooter in which the player controls four Colonial Marines, each with a different personality and primary weapon. Each player character can carry additional weapons including a flamethrower, pulse rifle, smartgun, pistol, RPG, and many types of grenades.[7]

The player controls one marine at a time, issues orders to the others using context-sensitive commands, and may switch between characters at any time.[8] The player will also occasionally be required to control a particular location, using tactical positioning and turrets to fend off attacks.[8] Aliens: Colonial Marines will have no HUD to provide the player with onscreen information.[9]

The primary enemies of the game are Aliens which will generally attempt to sneak up on or outflank the player, forcing the player to use tactical combat to confront them. Several different types of Aliens will appear and will attack differently. Facehuggers will attempt to attach themselves to the player character's face, implanting an embryo inside them which will then kill them. "Warrior" Aliens are the primary enemies and are based primarily on the appearance of the Alien in Aliens. "Runners" are faster and will spy on the player characters' activities. They will work in small groups or alone. These Aliens will be based on the appearance seen in Alien 3. "Drones" primarily carry and position eggs and work in the heart of the Hive serving the Queen; they were originally going to be in Aliens along with the "Warriors". An Alien queen will also appear as a "boss" enemy.[10] Quick time events will be used for one-on-one combat between the player characters and Aliens. The Aliens will occasionally flee rather than attack when confronted by more than one marine. Quick time events are also the primary mechanic when the player is attacked by a facehugger.

A previous game titled Aliens: Colonial Marines was developed by Check Six Games and was to be published by Fox Interactive and Electronic Arts for the PlayStation 2 in 2001, but was cancelled before its release. A more traditional first-person shooter, it shared the same subject matter and setting as the upcoming Gearbox-developed game. Its story was to be set between the events of Aliens and Alien 3, concerning a rescue team of Colonial Marines searching for the Sulaco. Despite the similarities in gameplay and story, however, Gearbox has claimed that their upcoming game is unrelated to this early version.[17][18]

On December 11, 2006, Sega announced they had purchased the electronic rights to the Alien franchise from 20th Century Fox.[19] On December 15, Gearbox Software and Sega announced that they were working on a completely new game based on the franchise.[16] In February 2008 the game's title was officially announced as Aliens: Colonial Marines and it was featured as the cover story of Game Informer magazine.[17]

The development team took great pains to recreate the vehicles and settings of the films by using original set designs to recreate the exterior and interior of the Sulaco and LV-426.[16] Concept artist Syd Mead, who had worked on Aliens, was hired to design areas of the Sulaco that did not appear in the film but would be used in the game.[12]

A Shacknews article dated November 21, 2008, reported that the Aliens: Colonial Marines game had been delayed, supposedly because of layoffs at Gearbox Software. However, Gearbox president Randy Pitchford insisted that development on the game continues.[20]

According to a Kotaku article, Sega said that their new Aliens vs. Predator game is to be released in early 2010 would be the first of their Aliens games to be released, meaning that Aliens: Colonial Marines will be sometime afterwards.[21]

At the 2010 Penny Arcade Expo (PAX), Gearbox showed five new screenshots and stated that the game remains a priority for them.[22][23]

In the beginning of June 2011, Gearbox unveiled a teaser trailer and officially announced that Colonial Marines would be presented on E3 2011 and that the game is expected to be released in spring 2012.[24][25]

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  • Great trailer! Definitely buying this when it comes out!

  • I like this trailer, but the music (from moon) seems out of place. I really hope this game is good. The visuals from the gameplay video (with a developer providing really bad commentary) look like they got the visual style and lighting down perfect, which is a promising start.

  • @olaokolaok

    soundtrack is used synonymously with score.

    the point is they are using the song from the movie moon thinking no one will notice.

  • What's the name of this song

  • @CarnageTrooperx Hey it's was announced years ago and they decided to freeze it for another half ass AVP game. So I can wait a little longer this game as long as you can do everything they originally were trying to do with it will be worth the wait. Can't wait to team up with people and shoot some zenomorphs.!

  • Y casi nos dejan sin esto por sacar la mierda esa de aliens versus predators.. Es más, aun sigo si entender que pintan estos segundos si solo han generado ñostos respecto al cine y videojuegos.

  • Si te gusta Alien sin duda pintaza.

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