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Aliens FPS, Red Faction 3 titled

By Tor Thorsen, GameSpotPosted Feb 13, 2008 6:10 pm PT

Game Informer cover reveals Gearbox is drafting Aliens: Colonial Marines as THQ is waging Red Faction: Guerrilla warfare.

Game over? I don't think so...

Among the passel of Electronic Arts announcements this week comes news that two eagerly anticipated shooters have received their final titles. The first is the upcoming first-person shooter from Gearbox Software and Sega based on the 1986 film Aliens.

Given the developer's public statements that the game follows the future-soldiers who fight the titular acid-blooded xenomorphs in the Aliens movie, it's no surprise that the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and PC game will be called Aliens: Colonial Marines. If that title sounds familiar, it's because it's the same as a canceled 2002 PlayStation 2 project from Electronic Arts and the now-defunct Fox Interactive.

Aliens: Colonial Marines' title was revealed on the cover of the March issue of Game Informer magazine, which also gave a final name to the third Red Faction game recently revealed by THQ. Developed by Volition (Saints Row), the game will be titled Red Faction: Guerrilla, indicating it will follow the same sort of underground, off-world rebellion as depicted in the first two installments in the series.

GameSpot will have more details on both Aliens: Colonial Marines and Red Faction: Guerrilla as they become available.

137 Comments

  • xbox360progamer

    Posted Jul 24, 2008 5:09 pm PT

    i am glad its going to be on all the consoles . the frist alien movie was great but the last one was terrible.. a little bit lame..

  • sir_pickle

    Posted Jul 21, 2008 8:22 pm PT

    Aliens will be awesome!!!!!!!!!

  • thenephariouson

    Posted Apr 26, 2008 3:20 am PT

    Exellent!! i've been waiting for a 'next gen' Aliens game. Just hope its as atmospheric as playing as the Marine in AvP2. Bring it on!!

  • wildnine00

    Posted Apr 1, 2008 2:04 pm PT

    Good news all around. Can't go wrong with an Alien shooter, and I loved the first two Red Faction games.

  • GrimILSI

    Posted Mar 31, 2008 11:07 am PT

    Sweet, i cant wait to see this game come out! ^^

  • tsb247

    Posted Mar 28, 2008 8:16 pm PT

    I was just thinking about how awesome it would be to have another (good) Aliens game... I can't wait! Red Faction 3 sounds good too!

  • Cloud_in_midgar

    Posted Mar 13, 2008 7:03 am PT

    I am looking forward to both these fine titles =)

  • vengeance00

    Posted Mar 6, 2008 12:15 pm PT

    I hope this is good as i loved AvP2 and i still rate it better then most fps these days. and red faction was great bu 2 they ruined it with the "improved" havoc engine which couldn't mine in the levels, create craters or have rumble lying around. they pretty much ruined that engine.

  • ResEvilFreak

    Posted Mar 4, 2008 1:37 am PT

    Yeah I remember that movie since I've seen it. So what about it?

  • H-A-V-O-K

    Posted Feb 25, 2008 7:46 pm PT

    very excited.but very worried at the same time.
    not to burst anyone's bubble or reopen old wounds but...
    does anyone remember "Alien Ressurection"?

  • PaulDixon77

    Posted Feb 25, 2008 4:00 pm PT

    http://games.tiscali.cz/news/news.asp?id=26192&r=top

    Hey guys nd girls check this site for some colonial marine screenshots, wow this looks awesome nd 4 player co-op, this is going to rock.

    When do they send a rescue team p#2 17 days person#3 17 days we ain't going to last 17 hours Hey may be you haven't been keeping up with current events but we just got our asses kicked pal! I like to keep this handy.....for close encounters. 2. I hear that. LET'S ROCK!!! Awesome..................................................

  • xnyfinestx

    Posted Feb 22, 2008 2:25 am PT

    Check it out im am the ultimate bad ass, state of the bad ass art, you do not want to fuk with me, lol memories.

  • CreatureRising

    Posted Feb 20, 2008 5:10 pm PT

    To Oneline. This is not a Resurrection the EA idea is DEAD this is a New Concept its going to be FREAKIN Sweet!

  • andalore

    Posted Feb 20, 2008 1:29 pm PT

    Wooo, Hunting Aliens in hi-Def, i hpe its bloody scary, ahh memories of the first level of AvP2 Speaking of wich I wonder If My favourite Ugly mutha F*cker is gonna make a cameo like our acid blooded amigos were in Predator:concrete Jungle

  • Vampire_Turtle

    Posted Feb 18, 2008 12:55 pm PT

    I have not actually played any of Gearbox Software's games. Apart from Half Life: Opossing Force, Blue Shift and Halo for PC. And I didn't play them a great deal.

    I just hope that we finally get the game that we've all been waiting for, an Aliens game which could surpass AVP2. *Crosses Fingers*

    - Vampire Turtle

  • Dantor000

    Posted Feb 18, 2008 6:57 am PT

    Loved Alien 1-3 (Alien Ressurection, AvP and AvP2 were crap), hope they make it tense like the resident evil games. Looking forward to killing the "ugly mother-f****rs Hope you can do it with some sort of rocket launcher and spray the acid everywhere.

  • rotnem

    Posted Feb 16, 2008 4:38 pm PT

    Great! I love the Alien film franchise and I think this game is going to be great! I still play Alien vs Predator 2 online, without the expansion pack of course.

  • syafiqjabar

    Posted Feb 15, 2008 11:41 pm PT

    Actually, this game sounds more like Brothers in Arms, Gearbox's famous franchise (where's Hell's Highway, anyway?), but in the future and against xenomorphs instead of Nazis, Azwhtknight.

  • Onelinedrawing

    Posted Feb 15, 2008 8:25 pm PT

    Colonial Marines back from the dead aye? Maybe this time it'll actually make something of it self. As for Red Faction 3, the game lost it's soul when RF2 came out. At this point they could dream up almost any story in a similar universe and slap it with the Red Faction name.

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