Is Aliens: Colonial Marines going to be scary? I’m not sure. Gearbox and Sega have released a new trailer with lots of talking heads espousing their theories about how to create tension, but the actual in-game footage they show doesn’t seem particularly tension-filled. I mean there’s a part in the trailer where a guy knocks down an alien with the butt of his gun. A human being should not be able to physically knock down a Xenomorph. Not scary guys.
Anywho, you can hit the jump and judge for yourselves…
Yeah, I’m not convinced about the scariness, but aside from that, this looks like a good shooter. Aliens: Colonial Marines will be out next February.
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The footage itself isn’t scary but I imagine it will be when you’re playing the game itself and shit just jumps out at you from nowhere and HOLY SHIT KILL IT WITH FIRE! Dead Space style. Not that they invented it, but they do it better than any other game I’ve played.
The main problem that eradicates tension is the whole pop-up point structure. It immediately takes you out of the tension when its like, “You just knocked an Alien out with your dick! 5000 POINTS!!” As a result, not scary.
I played the multiplayer demo at comic-con and that’s pretty much what every in-game shot was from the video. Minus the few cut scene moments. The MP is CoD styled so all that crap popped up constantly.
A human being didn’t knock down a xenomorph, a Marine did; it’s a common misconception that we are human beings.
Really the first movie was more about terror while the second one was more about action. They should be trying to sell it more along those lines.
Two words:
Alien Trilogy. That should be the gold standard for pants-wetting virtual terror.
The hell is with none of these guys knowing how to wear a pair of glasses…?