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.
@AdamNovice Agreed. A good Judge Dredd game, and add a good quality Rambo game as well.
Alien but not that Alien...
I wonder when we will get Alien Isolation 2 news again.
@AdamNovice The only Judge Dredd game i ever played was for Sega Genesis and i like it. But i would love to play an FPS game with Judge Dredd universe.
Would do terrible in today's market, but I'd love to see them revisit AvP. Really enjoyed the PS3 game even with all its flaws.
@PuppetMaster I played Dredd vs Death on PS2, it wasn't great but there things I liked about it such as when an enemy gave up you can handcuff them and the game would generate a sentence for them.
Looks good. I particularly like the wind effects. Give me a single player FPS especially one with a horror story & I'm in. Looks reminds me of the criminally underrated Doom 3.
@AdamNovice I didn't know there's a Judge Dredd game for PS2. The Sega Genesis game also allowed Dredd to handcuff some human enemies.
The sad thing is when we finally got a solid Dredd movie with Karl Urban and it ended as a flop 😔
@PuppetMaster Don't remind me mate. I'm still bitter about that. Same with Blade Runner 2049 and Furiosa a Mad Max Saga, great movies that deserved to do so much better.
That picture is just giving me BLACK vibes
Looks interesting, it all depends on the narrative for me. I do think they're leaving themselves open to a lawsuit with the name however =/
@SeanOhOgain Why? The word "alien" has been around since 1950's in books and movies, it didn't start with the 1979 movie, that's for sure.
Edit: And games like Alien Colony never had any issues with their titles.
Why would you be confused? Clearly the threat isn't a Xenomorph...
Confusing confusion aside, this looks pretty solid. Always love a good Rebellion game.
I don’t get the confusion. All recent alien games follow the naming format “Alien: Subtitle”
If it was called “Alien: Deathstorm” then I would be confused, but it is called “Alien Deathstorm” so I didn’t even expect it to be an Alien game
@AdamNovice Open-world Dredd RPG game in a huge Megacity could be amazing.
Honestly I'm annoyed there aren't more Dredd games out there. The comics have so many great themes and characters that a game could rival Fallout or Witcher, if the right creatives and budget were involved.
I do think a license helps this sort of game- recent Robocop and Terminator games elevated them for sure. I’m more into third person than FPS now I’m old. 😂 but I will keep an eye on this
@Mintie aside from the fact that someone will always pipe up and run down anyone else’s confusion, when you read the list of games coming and see an alien game by rebellion (or In general tbh) one would always think - wonder if it’s a alien tie in. That’s natural. Like if someone did a game called Star Wars Tactics and piped up - clearly it’s not Star Wars Star Wars - it’s wars in the stars. Those words have been around years. Even the alien games that weren’t alien - were clearly leaning into alien a bit!
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.
I had to chuckle when reading this because I was a Combat Engineer with the Royal Engineers, and whilst serving with Bomb Disposal I was dispatched to the Falklands right after the war to clear the mines and unexploded ordnance, and where communications with the outside world took around 3 to 4 weeks by what was called a 'bluey' (it was named that because the envelopes they gave us were blue and free to post both in the Falklands and the UK).
I remember that I wrote to my girlfriend pretty much every night for about 3 weeks, sending a letter off each day, only to receive a a Dear John* letter from her, which meant that 3 weeks after she called off the relationship, she was receiving a letter each day in which I told her how much I loved her! 😂
*A 'Dear John' letter probably doesn't translate so well in today's age, as I received that letter back in the early 80s, but it is what a break-up letter was known by. It's probably the equivalent of 'Ghosting' these days.
Thus the description of the game made me smile... 😎
@AdamNovice I have a couple of copies of it for different consoles like PS1, PS2 and of course the Mega Drive movie release. It's one of the only franchises I really want to see made into a modern game. There are so many story-lines they can pull from and I've listened to the radio dramas/audiobooks (there are a lot) so many times while playing other games. It's so easy to see it as a game when it's with the BBC sound library. The scope of one Mega City would be a massive achievement, with block wars etc. Basically a kind of Fallout but Dredd, that build your own robot DLC? build your own ABC Warrior, Far Harbor? DeathWorld with the Dark Judges, Nuka World? Cursed Earth.
Smaller fps games are where it's at nowadays. The big stuff is too boring.
I've been playing Void/breaker and having an absolute blast. I'm hoping Out of Action comes to PS5 so I can play with my buddies.
@Fiendish-Beaver Hello fellow Combat Engineer, from across the pond.
I was a bit glad to see "Combat Engineer" as the main until it went into Medic/ Corpman definitions of saving lives.
Huh... that's... that's not really what a Combat Engineer does
@Zeke68 fair point, usually you just see companies have an abundance of caution! I retract my statement
Howdy, @CallMeDuraSouka!
Yes, for me being a Combat Engineer was all about building bridges, clearing minefields, constructing manageable routes through tricky terrain and also some explosive demolitions work, among other things. Being a Combat Medic was not my role, though I do not diminish their importance for even one second as we'd be lost without them.
I was in early 2000's/Iraq- it was mostly munitions demolition/ MSR clearance and breach support
I always figure it's a win for us if a character gets called a Combat Engineer instead of infantry 😆
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