Following news that Sega and Obsidian's Aliens RPG has officially been sent to the boneyard, some ludicrous concept art has surfaced that is ... well ... I've no idea what it's supposed to be. Basically, you have one Alien that looks like it's hybridized with a Dimetrodon and one that looks like it burst out of a giant meatball.
These two things apparently have names, too. The big fat thing is an "Abomination" while the lizard-like one is a "Stalker." I'm surprised they didn't just start copying the Hasbro toy line, since they had some utter gems in there. Killer Crab Alien would kick ass in a videogame.
It at least gives us a clue as to what Obsidian was planning to make the Aliens RPG interesting, if not highly comical. Despite the insane designs here, I'm still disappointed that the game won't at least be given a chance. Still, with Colonial Marines and Aliens vs Predator on the horizon, we'll be getting quite the fill of Xenomorph-flavored revelry.
[Update: We just got an email linking us to loads more concept images from the game. A poster at the Obsidian board dug and threw up tons of pictures ages ago but nobody noticed. We've added a full gallery of shots, complete with environments and more Xenomorphs. They're not officially released Obisidan images, and they've been taken from various designers supposedly working on the game. Still, there's an Alien Queen in there, so enjoy!]
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2:05 PM on 06.30.2009
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I like them anyway. I loved the idea proposed in the films that depending on the creature the alien spawned out of there would be mutations. It is a creature of advanced evolution after all.
Why even make up classes? They have drones, warriors, queens, dog alien (or cow) & hybrids.
If you ask me they look pretty cool. It would have gotten pretty boring to see the game aliens over and over.
Plus aliens take traits of their hosts. Destructoid and Kotaku are wrong trying to sensationalize these to justify the post, instead of writing an article on what could have been. Assholes.
Wow, serious some? I was merely poking fun at the silly looking fat Alien. It looks ridiculous. I'm not trying to criticize it seriously.
Anyway, there are loads more bits of art up now. Enjoy!
Oh the irony.
I would have bought it on day one.
I would have rather gotten this over colnial marines
I'm just Cranky that the Game has been Cancelled. AND OMG! all those new screens just make it worse. *Cry's a little*
There's got to be something we can do to slap some sense back into Obsidian, get them to jump start this thing after Alpha Protocol.
Jim man, call up some of your game industry insiders, or someone at Obsidian. Lets get the power of Jim and Joe on this. As stupid as petitions are im considering putting one up at my site and thatguywiththeglasses.com for this game. F*ck.
*Kick's something*
There's already an Alien history, I'd hate if Obsidian made a whole new one. Don't get me wrong though, they write great stories.
Also I know those images are just concept artwork, but they look fairly crap imo. Taking the series way overboard.
Perhaps it's for the best that this has been canned.
Thsi concept gatehred soooo much support that they introduced it in the official cannon with Alien 3, and the Dog Zenomorph.
So what they're doing here isn't THAT unusual.
Im digging the fire-ant / desert queen variant.