New ALIENS: COLONIAL MARINES gameplay trailer

A new trailer for Aliens: Colonial Marines has been released. This trailer showcases the gameplay rather than the CGI of the previous trailer.

The trailer also reveals more info about the plot, confirming that the game is a sequel to Aliens. Remember in the movie how there was much discussion about the back-up team that would be sent once the Sulaco marines were declared overdue? Yeah, the game's about those guys, who are sent on the USS Sephora to take care of the situation once and for all. Needless to say, this doesn't work out as planned and, after a fierce firefight with aliens on the Sulaco, they end up marooned back on LV-426 (which seems curiously intact despite the atmosphere processor's nuclear detonation; maybe that's some other installation on the other side of the planet?). Mayhem results.

The game, written by Bradley Thompson and David Weddle (noted for their work on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and the new Battlestar Galactica) is due for release on PC, PlayStation 3 and X-Box 360 this autumn.

ALIENS: COLONIAL MARINES trailer

Aliens: Colonial Marines has been delayed until the autumn. But to compensate (at least a little) Gearbox have released a new trailer for the game. No gameplay, but some nice CGI and great use of the Clint Mansell soundtrack from the film Moon.

The game is a direct sequel to the movie Aliens. It focuses on the recovery of the Sulaco (the ship used by Ripley and the marines in that film to get to LV-426 and subsequently escape) by a rescue team of colonial marines, who then backtrack the ship's course to LV-426 and subsequently learn the fate of the planet after its nuking in the movie. Established characters are not expected to appear (since they bailed out of the Sulaco at the start of Alien 3). The Aliens universe will also be explored this July in Ridley Scott's new film Prometheus, set before the events of the original Alien.