Okay, we’ll admit it: we’ve spent the hours since the Xbox Partner Preview thinking Rebellion’s new FPS Alien Deathstorm is related to the Ridley Scott movie.
Actually, it’s not, but it wasn’t a wild assumption to make, seeing as the UK studio famously made Alien vs Predator for the Atari Jaguar back in 1994. (As well as its 2010 revival for the PS3.)
We suspect, then, some of that pedigree is going into this all-new first-person shooter, which is launching in 2027.
To be fair, this is the kind of throwback type of game announcement you don’t see very often anymore: it’s not a live service game. It’s not a hero shooter. It’s just a white-knuckle action horror game set on an off-world colony.
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Here’s how the dev describes it:
In Alien Deathstorm, you play as the Combat Engineer, a highly trained first responder, who has been dispatched to a remote, off-world colony that has suffered a complete loss of communications. Arriving days or potentially weeks ahead of a full rescue fleet, your job is to determine what has caused the colony to fall silent and try to save as many lives as possible.
As you land the Deathstorm is tearing the colony to shreds. You must navigate the on-going destruction, amid apocalyptic conditions and with the threat of unknown alien horrors. You knew it was going to be bad, but it’s much worse than you thought it would be, and it’s going downhill fast. What you thought was a rescue mission has now become a fight for survival.
You can check out the reveal trailer above, which is generic in a refreshing kinda way.
Is this on your radar at all? Don’t get confused with the film franchise in the comments section below.
[source rebellion.com]
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I wish Rebellion would make a new Judge Dredd game.
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