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Obsidian, Gearbox Developing Aliens Games
by Maarten Goldstein, Dec 11, 2006 10:05pm PSTThe sharp eyes at Gaming Target noticed that an Aliens teaser page on Sega.com revealed two companies involved with the new Aliens games mentioned this morning. The page, since updated, listed both Obsidian Entertainment and Gearbox Software in the copyright section. Obsidian most recently worked on Neverwinter Nights 2, while Gearbox is best known for the Brothers in Arms games. It's not much of a surprise seeing these two companies involved, as the official press release announcing the deal between Sega and 20th Century Fox mentions the development of a role playing game as well as a first person shooter. The press release also corrects this morning's Hollywood Reporter story in saying the first game will be released in 2009, not 2008.
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I haven't seen a single one of the Aliens movie but it seems to me that once you've seen what the creature looks and it's stages of evolution (clinger, baby chest-burster thing, normal, and big momma) the thrill is kind of gone.
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"Roger Ebert called Alien (and John Carpenter's Halloween) "the most influential of modern action pictures". He went on to say that many of "the films it influenced studied its thrills but not its thinking", including the re-make of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. As Andrew O'Hehir puts it, "almost every horror film since "Alien" has ripped it off in some way, but most of the imitations have focused on details."
Commentators point to Alien, along with The Brood, as launching the body-horror sub-genre of horror film. Also, the film's cramped, claustrophobic sets have become the de facto norm for horror movies set in space. The film's representation of the ship's crew has also had a huge influence. For the first time, a blockbuster science-fiction film depicted space-travelers as blue-collar company-employees rather than as highly-empowered agents of a quasi-military structure (such as in Star Trek). (A hint of this also appears in the earlier Silent Running.) The film Outland borrows much of this premise (as well as a good deal of aesthetics), and across the genre the aesthetic of Alien for future technology became the norm in the following decade."
Perhaps you already knew this- but with this in mind first I would say that you should absolutely see Alien and I HIGHLY recommend James Cameron's Aliens sequel- nominated for 7 academy awards (winning 2). Sigourney Weaver received a nomination for Best Actress which "was considered a landmark for a nomination for Best Actress to even be made for a science fiction / horror film, a genre usually given little recognition by the Academy in those years."
Maybe you already knew all of that too- but the tone of your post suggests that you do not think too much of the series, nor the games. As an Alien film series fan I can safely say that some of the games like Aliens vs Predator 2 faithfully reproduce the movie experience in game form- and the prospect of AVP3 excites me and simultaneously frightens me. Frightens me in a good way.
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