The Alien: Rogue Incursion panel wrapped up a few hours ago at the San Diego Comic-Con. Developer Survios has released a new trailer for the virtual reality game and it shows none other than ex-Colonial Marine Zula Hendricks.
Zula Hendricks will be known to many comic book and novel fans. She first appeared in the comic books Aliens: Defiance, Aliens: Resistance and Aliens: Rescue. She later appeared in the novels Alien: Isolation with Amanda Ripley, Alien: Prototype, and Alien: Inferno’s Fall.
The trailer sees Zula Hendricks battling Xenomorphs on the planet Purdan with a transmission from Zula narrating the footage. Zula says she found what she was looking for on Purdan – a full-blown infestation and that everybody is dead. The trailer is intercut with lots of scenes showing Zula fighting Xenomorphs.
The official Alien: Rogue Incursion website has also been updated with more information about the game.
Alien: Rogue Incursion is a brand-new single-player action-horror VR game that immerses players in the world of Alien. The game stars Zula Hendricks, an unbreakable ex-Colonial Marine, on a dangerous mission that brings her to the uncharted planet Purdan, and the secrets hiding beneath its surface. With her sentient AI companion, Davis-01, Zula must fight her way to the heart of the infested Gemini Exoplanet Solutions black-site facility. There she will need to survive deadly attacks from the most cunning Xenomorphs ever encountered and discover new horrors and threats that once unleashed could spell the end for humankind.
Features
THE 1ST ALIEN VR GAME
- Play as Zula Hendricks for the first time
- Fight against intelligent Xenomorphs who choose their own paths to attack
- Danger lurks everywhere as Xenomorphs spawn dynamically based on the players actions
- Use iconic weapons and gear like the Pulse Rifle, Motion Tracker, and more
- Immerse yourself in the world of Alien like never before
Alien: Rogue Incursion is releasing on PS VR2, Meta Quest 3, and PCVR this Holiday.
Now we just need a game where we play Victor from Aliens: Infiltraitor, sure we all know his ending but still, more fighting Xenos!
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What a wanker. He's blocked now too.
I had not been expecting Zula to return! Really excited to see her back! I did really enjoy her in Defiance (and that's even with the series faltering towards the end of the run) and she was great in all her Titan appearances too. It was just the diminishing quality of her later Dark Horse runs that gave me pause there. With Alex White writing her in Rogue Incursion, I'm especially excited!
I wonder if we're going with a new variant of the Pulse Rifle? Looks kind of like the Fireteam one with the flashhider on the underbarrel, and the magwell looks a little different too.
I can't deny that the graphics in the trailer do look a little dated, but I'm not sure if that's a result of recording VR 3D footage in 2D or if there's a lower standard for VR games? The VR games I've played in the past don't tend to look fantastic.
I still stand by my excitement for an Alien VR game though! I think the format is just perfect for our franchise. I'm looking forward to hearing what the developers had to say in @RidgeTop's interviews with them at SDCC.
Some new keyart from the panel & the trailer announcement.
https://survios.com/studio/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/alien-rogue-incursion-official-hero-art-zula-hendricks-1536x864-1.jpg
https://survios.com/studio/zula-hendricks-is-ready-for-the-fight-of-her-life/
https://i.ibb.co/vLk2g2m/zapp-braningan-leaving-zapp-braningan.gif
I just hope the menace factor is preserved here even if the Aliens are no longer invincible. Mortal predators on earth are still plenty terrifying in human experience. The aliens' stiff gait and reactive subtlety of a haunted house actor in this trailer doesn't inspire confidence in me yet.
Link their tweet, I feel the need to shame them.
Iceberg video?
https://i.imgur.com/FPeBkgl.png
But can anyone tell me how she got her back injury. It was vaguely mentioned in a battle but with whom ? And there was some scenes with Msrines literally on a bug hunt on Mars I think. Shooting literal 2 foot long space cockroaches. It was pitiful ! And then Zuls and her companion survive the centre of a nuclear explosion in a really bizarre ending. Apparently and it's not really made clear they had a protection tent 🙄 it was all so vague. Also I kinda thought the series was cancelled due to the writer not being very cool in the DH offices. So surprised Zula has made a return. Anyway the game looks super fun. 👌
Zula is an interesting choice for the game; since the comics established Zula and Amanda were friends, I wonder if this is a sort of interim title and there's a new isolation sequel in planning... 😊
Plus... Another 'Alien' shooter where you're a squishy human with a gun, instead of playing as the actual creature, to make it a properly unique experience? It's bizarre to think it's been almost one and a half decades since we've had something like that.
She was a great character in the defiance comics. A human being, full of fear and self doubt, but also courageous and determined. She was vulnerable at times and ruthless at others. It left her conflicted with certain actions she took.
She was one of my favourite characters within the dark horse comics.
Since then she has just become an unstoppable one women killing machine of xenos and frankly boring.
Prototype, resistance and rescue were terrible.
It's a surprise to see her in this though. Wasn't expecting that.