Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Dec 14, 2015, 11:17:29 AM
You're completely right. That was a missed opportunity. Whilst it's never really seen (that one shot in the DC) or actually used in the film, it would have been a nice callback. However, I do feel it would have seemed out of place seeing pew-pew lasers when everything else is more modern with bullets and etc.
Like I said in an earlier post it doesn't have to be red beamed pew-pew laser. The laser doesn't have to be visible and the sound it makes could be a hissing, buzzing or humming sound, or it could have a more electronic explosion-like sound like the pistols in Blade Runner, or the sound of a muffled or silenced handgun. The ricochet/"bullet hole" effect could be a smokey flare, a red hot melted hole, or a bunch of sparks around a white bright dot. If the laser is more of a stunner weapon from afar, that can be quite lethal up close, it would make up for a lot of interesting strategies and gameplay.
QuoteI would have liked to have seen it be egg-morphing but that wasn't the intent of the game. The developers envisioned there was a Queen in the depths of Sevastapol. No egg-morphing I'm afraid.
I've heard both. Read somewhere that they wanted to keep it open for interpretation as ALIEN fans will get the egg-morphing nod whereas the rest can safely assume that there has to be a Queen somewhere on board the Sevastopol. In a way it's cool that they went that route, but as an ALIEN fan it would've been really sweet if they went all in and with the program. Egg-morphing is horrifying and is one of those things that still scares me on film. Body horror at its best.