GameStorm Launches Aliens Online

Aliens Online, the multiplayer game based on the second of the Aliens movie series, is now live on Kesmai's GameStorm.

"We've taken all the terror, action and tension that kept fans of the film on the edge of their seats and brought it to the Internet," said Chris Holden, CEO, Kesmai Corporation. "And, using our 'massively multiplayer' technology, we have created a game in which literally thousands of players can simultaneously battle it out in those dark, dank corridors that made the movie so terrifying."

This exclusive to GameStorm was jointly developed by Kesmai, Fox Interactive, and Mythic Entertainment. Aliens Online is the first major movie brand that has ever been brought to a real-time, action multiplayer environment.

In case you haven't scene Aliens, a group of Colonial Marines faces a group of blood thirsty aliens after they have infested a space station and are now threatening other humans. Gamers get a choice of playing either a marine or an alien. To balance the gameplay, marines have a slew of weapons such as flamethrowers and pulse rifles but move slowly. Aliens are faster but can only kill marines through direct contact.

Aliens Online was designed to get gamers to cooperate and keep one another alive to achieve a common goal. Marines and aliens both rise through their respective ranks: marines grow to be captains while aliens work up to queen status in order to command others within the game. Marines fight to destroy the aliens' queen and hive. Aliens defend their hive and queen.

Each section of Aliens Online, called sectors, can support up to 100 players. New sectors can support up to 10,000 games simultaneously in a single universe.

If you're looking to play, the game requires a Pentium 90 or better, Windows 95, 16 MB RAM, and a sound card.