In what has to be the meatiest article so far, VG24/7 has posted a nicely detailed report on the conference where the game was announced earlier today:
“One of our big questions marks was that we didn’t want to just make a game out of a film license – you know, just deliver the film and that’s about it. We’re aiming for the Red Dead Redemptions, the Arkham Asylums; that’s absolutely where we want to be. We want to make a 90 percent game that’s easily communicable to people simply because it’s in that Alien world.”
And there’s loads more. Make sure you read it all.
More mentions here: http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2011-05-16-to-be-this-good-takes-ages-interview?page=2
The Pred angle was worked in by Fox for AvP as it would have cost them to sever the existing contract and renegotiate. The others rightly only extend to the Aliens license, and this isn't going to be Extinction 2 and that's awesome because that game was a giant pile of ass smeared in dead babies.
CA has never done an open world game and has very little logistical strength in the department, unless they intend to staff the new studio thusly.
It's rather likely to be tactical oriented 3p with unit "construction" and hubbed areas to open and return to with different abilities and troop types/vehicles, same for Aliens if it's adversarial.
Aliens only is the right move.
I'm all for it being an RPG, FPS has been done.
Anyway im excited, the alien is getting updated based games.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0fOFXTnnlI#
This.
..waiting for a leaked gameplay video