Here's some marginally concerning news for anybody looking forward to Aliens: Colonial Marines. Despite being announced long before Aliens vs. Predator, Sega has now stated that the release of Gearbox's co-op Xenomorph shooter will hinge directly on the success of Rebellion's crossover effort.
"I think the detail of that [release date] is probably still too early," explains Mike Hayes, Sega president and COO. "What I would say is it’s unlikely that we’d launch anything within six months [of Aliens vs. Predator], but probably nine months, eight to 12 months possibly. Though we literally are looking at that at the moment and a lot of is going to depend, as well, on how successful AvP is at the box.
"It’s what level of ‘well’ does it do, do we then determine when we want to bring the next one out and then, of course, determine what the third one in the series is likely to be."
This is slightly annoying news. Colonial Marines was originally looking to be on track for an early 2010 release, but has apparently been frozen until further notice. That's a shame because I was looking forward to having a "pure" Aliens game to go with my AvP. Still, the good news is that Sega is clearly looking to make Aliens a running game franchise, with Hayes' talk of a "third one."
So, the fate of Colonial Marines is now up in the air. Now, when are we going to hear more about Aliens DS?
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8:40 AM on 08.25.2009
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Do not associate them in any way with the shitty movies
Copy and paste, update AVP 2, which was a HUGE hit
Done: they'll sell enough for it to be considered a success.
WTF
I just think they dont want to have two alien games compete with each other...makes sense, it's a bummer, but it makes sense
I hope AvP pans out toon, especially after previous games on PS2 and PSP. What worries me is that th AvP films have been crap, and broken the IP and its cannon. Whether they get it right for the game will prove interesting, but judging by the videos I've seen so far, it looks promising. Roll on Feb, 2010.
Let's face it, AvP is going to bring in more money than A:CM. You got what's essentially 'more bang for your buck/quid' and that makes A:CM a little redundant, despite a lot of fans wanting a normal Aliens vs Marines game.
All in all, it's a shit business.
You don't want two games coming out at the same time named "Alien(s): ..."
Die hard fans alone won't be able to boost the sales really high.
Maybe Sega is making all the fans to buy AVP first instead of waiting for A:CM's later release.I think A:CM will still comes out and AVP sales will one way or another effect A:CM coming out earlier or not and the Third project which I shamelessly hoping for it to be an RPG.
They should have just make different genres for each projects from the start,they could have easily do the RTS like AVP:Extinction on PS2,that game never had any multiplayer skirmish mode which is confusing.I'd still buy even if it is a party game titled Viva Xenomorphs:Party Aliens or an alien breeding game.The possibilities is endless to breed a new sub-species everyday.It'll be like Spore but with r*ping.