Cryptic Prepping Superhero MMO for PC, Consoles; New Red Faction, Aliens Games Named
by Chris Faylor, Feb 14, 2008 8:15am PSTWith Marvel Universe Online (PC, X360) officially canceled and the studio no longer involved with City of Heroes (PC), the latest effort from superhero MMO developer Cryptic Studios is Champions Online, a super-powered MMO planned for PC and consoles.
Word of the project comes from a writeup detailing gaming publication Game Informer's March issue. No further details are available at this time.
Gearbox's upcoming Aliens shooter will be called Aliens: Colonial Marines when it hits PC and unspecifid consoles--most likely PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360--in 2009, the article revealed. It also contained the official title of Volition's next Red Faction entry, Red Faction: Guerilla.
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Any new Alien game sounds like a good game to me. But ofcourse it needs to be on par with todays quality of games (any rehash of characters or appearance might ruin the fun). Hopefully the levels will be HUGE, lots of corridors, airducts and exploring. A remodel of Nostromo, LV426 etc. Maybe submissions of piloting the dropship, airduct escape, driving the car. Maybe now is a good time to use voices of the original actors (sigourney, biehn, henriksen, reiser, and esp. paxton), if they are willing (and provided that the game is good enough). And don't be shy on sampling lines, it could use hundreds of random ones as well.
I for one am looking forward to a new Aliens game. Here's hoping..
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It's almost certainly based on the nearly 30 year old Champions paper and pencil game ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champions_%28role-playing_game%29 ), and that was a good RPG system with the one fault that you needed to understand theoretical math to work the numbers. Adding computers to this would remove the greatest stumbling block.
Now what makes me reeeeally curious, is that they've done CoH/V, and MS cut them loose from Marvel Online... So therefore they must be really really secure in their feelings that another supers MMO is viable.
tl;dr They must have some worthwhile trick up their sleeve
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