Aliens: Infestation revealed as DS side-scroller

Aliens: Infestation details have been spilled by the ESRB, including its T-rated content and an interesting connection to developer WayForward.

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Aliens: Infestation has been detailed, thanks to a few different ratings boards. Siliconera reports that the game was first quietly outed as a WayForward-developed DS game in May by the Australian ratings board. Now the ESRB has filled in more details. The T-rated side-scroller includes violence (for obvious reasons), cursing, and brief male nudity. Who says the DS is a kiddie system?

It's unknown at this time if Aliens: Infestation is a boxed retail product or DSiWare, but being from WayForward brings an interesting wrinkle. Gearbox Software is making the PC and console versions of Aliens: Colonial Marines, and company president Randy Pitchford casually mentioned a DS title in the works as well.

Colonial Marines DS was reportedly being handled by WayForward, and rumored footage from 2009 showed a side-scrolling shooter. But the footage was pulled from YouTube with the claim that the title had been canceled. Sega denied any cancellation had taken place, and stated that it hadn't put out the footage. Being from the same developer, and on the same system, it seems likely that Infestation is what became of Colonial Marines DS. But of course, Sega hasn't confirmed that the two Aliens titles are one and the same.

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    July 15, 2011 3:00 PM

    Steve Watts posted a new article, Aliens: Infestation revealed as DS side-scroller.

    Aliens: Infestation details have been spilled by the ESRB, including its T-rated content and an interesting connection to developer WayForward.

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      July 15, 2011 3:45 PM

      It's a testament to the strength of the first 2 movies that they still stand up as two of the greatest movies ever made amongst the absolute shitpile of dreck cheap moneygrabbing cocksmokers (Your AvP, your AvP sequels, your crappy franchise rapings like I'm sure this game will be, etc) keep trying to bleed outta the franchise.

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        July 15, 2011 3:50 PM

        The fact that it's now a "franchise" anyway just sickens me. Soon as anything becomes enfranchised the individuality is long gone...just look at CoD, you know exactly what you're gonna get, year in, year out.

        These I'm thinking more and more that CoD4:MW was a fluke. Awesome game, shame about the rest of them.

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        July 16, 2011 12:25 AM

        I thought the same thing when I saw this! The movie spawned so many icons (power loader, APC, the Sulaco, smart-guns, M41A pulse rifles, OMG!) It seems like we just can't get past how awesome that movie was (and Alien.) Any game is going to have all those elements, and they are unmistakable.

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      July 16, 2011 3:24 AM

      I wonder if there are any plans to release it for the 3DS aswell.

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      July 16, 2011 3:17 PM

      Side-scroller? Ugh.

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        July 17, 2011 8:05 PM

        im totally down for an Aliens side scroller but i think Konami should do it.

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