New Alien types in Colonial Marines, but no "silly gimmicks"

Aliens: Colonial Marines will take a few liberties with the Aliens fiction, introducing new breeds of Xenomorph, but will remain "true to the franchise", Gearbox art chap Brian Cozzens has explained.

"We're probably going to explore what you can do with the Xenomorphs," Cozzens commented at Penny Arcade Expo last week. "You saw the Charger already in our demo. But we still want that to be true to the franchise, you know. We don't want to be too silly or gimmicky about it. No gorilla aliens or anything silly."

As you'll know if you read our E3 interview with Gearbox or caught the preview in issue 75, Colonial Marines confronts players with bullet-proof Xenos alongside the familiar facehuggers, drones and Queens.

Lest connoisseurs of survival horror mistake the game for a balls-out action affair, Cozzens insisted that suspense lists high on the Colonial Marines menu. "It's interesting because the fans online - we love listening to what the fans are saying, the fans of Gearbox, fans of Alien - we've noticed there's been a bit of concern because all they've seen so far is a lot of action.

"And that's what made sense when we showed it at E3, we wanted to show action because it's really quick and people can get into it really fast. But we do want tension, we want to have scary moments. We want those experiences you saw in Alien and Aliens, where there is a lot of suspense - you're going down a hallway and it's dark or it's scary and you don't know what's going to be around the next corner - we want to have that in the game. Not just action, lots of Aliens coming at you. We want both."

Later in the chat, the Gearbox man hinted that androids like Lance Hendricksen's iconic Bishop would feature in the game. "They might. It would be hard to dismiss the synthetics. Pretty established in the franchise, we saw them at least three of the films, if not all of the films. So yeah we might want to explore that little."

Can you think of any particularly crazy or menacing Aliens breeds? Nobody mention the Predator hybrids.

[Source: GetGames]