Hey guys, i just made a full translation of the main text from the Featured Play³ Magazine
article, it provides some details about the game and an interview with the guys from Rebellion!
Aliens versus Predator
Sega brings out the third part of the action packed series! Its the first time the hunt finds its way on the Playstation 3!
Action: Wenn these three brawlers get together, whole worlds fall apart into aches. We mean the slimy, perfectly trimmed for surviving Aliens, the murderous Predator and the heavily armed human Marines. There are comics circulating about these fights even a long time ago, in the meanwhile the fight found its way to the theaters. And various Computergames already exist as well on every machine. Now once again a team of developers from England attemps to create this fantastic skirmish in an up to date version. The studios name is Rebellion, which already released the first part of the series on PC. Now the SciFi Skirmish comes back home, after the secont part was developed by Monilith (Fear). Who knows the previous parts, can be happy about the old style of the game: Three single player campains, where you can choose between each species, ans an action paxked multiplayer part, where the opponents can play during several modes.
Very British!
We took a closer look, and flew to the developers to England to witness, how they will put up the legendary fight of the three opponents this time. Thereto Jason Kingsley, the founder of Rebellion, welcomed us. We were shown a presentation of the Predator, the other races were hold back. The plot is set after the movie ALIEN 3, so it has nothing to do with the moderate AVP movie. We stay on a rainy jungle planet between huge trees and destroyed ruins. The mission is simple: Aliens, the arch enemys of the predators, are free, and we should kill them. The Humans, unluckily, set there foots on the planet too - though the bad luck is more on there side, how they will find out soon.
I SEE YOU!
With its different vision modes the predator will search its envoirment. In case you dont know this helpful feature: This hunter can change his visual senses and is able to see humans as glowing points with his thermal-view for example. In another visionmode he can see Aliens more easy, but has to change between the Visionmodes frequently, to not overlook an enemy. Thats how the creature finds a group of Marines fast, who come near his position. Because he is invisible, the few humans are no real threat to him. Thereto he is able to jump unbelievably agile to the next perch. To support his jumping skills, the developers have added some kind of Target-help, which shows the correct path of the jump (the so called focus jump). When the predator is close enough to his opponents, he will attack with his wristblades, the camouflage disappears. Suddenly you hear screams, fire, panic. The Predator fights its way without mercy in close combat through the marines, and uses his shoulder canon to kill the few ones in the distance. That costs energy, which the hunter can
fill up again in a cruel way. He graps a human victim with both hands, and rips his head and spine off. He wips out the blood from his new trophy with a single move of his hands, and packs away the head.
Threesome
A few times later dozens of Aliens are crawling from a little hole and join the fight. The A.I. should make interesting fights possible: If the predator stays cloaked, the Aliens and Marines will fight. The Humans on the other hand try to give each other cover, and use save wall-rests and react on their own. The A.I of the marine sqads isnt scripted,
every encounter should be different. Jason proves this by starting the same level again....and doing nothing than watching the enemies fight each other. He joins the fight later, and uses the classic weapons of the hunter, bringing back tingly memories of the legendary movies in our heads. As an Alien you have the mission to release the ALIEN Queen and to build
a colony. As a marine you are thrown into the fight right in the beginning and you have to fight for your life. The story is centered on a single planet, the single campaigns are overlapping a few times. You are going to see some showplaces again and again, but from another perspective. The developers didnt want to say anything about the multiplayer part, which
is the part some fans are waiting for the most. Yes there will be a multiplayer part, and yes, fans who played the previous games, wont be disappointed. When three quarrel, the fourth rejoices. In this case we, the fans.
Interview with Jason Kinglsey and Tim Jones from Rebellion
Play3: Why did you choose to make a new Aliens vs Predator?
Jason: We always wanted to male an new one. We were busy with other games, but always had an eye on this one. Finally we could convince the right person that the time is right.
Play3: I guess there are a lot of people out there who are very exited because you guys are doing this game.
Jason: Of cource we hope that. That a very important point for us, we want this game to be as successfull as the previous ones without losing the spirit of the old game.
Play3: Are you, fom the creative point of view, not a little limited when it comes to the AVP universe. I mean they already showed everything of it.
Tim: We have a lot of passion for this universe and everything that has to do with it. To make changes there would not be right, and the fans would be pissed.
Jason: Oh yeah, the would be angry!
Tim: .....but the title plays a few years later after Alien 3, a time, that has not been explored yet. That gives us more freedom, for example for new weapons.
Jason: The best in this universe is that you have this three characters, which are completly unique. They all have theirstrengths and weaknesses. The predator is the strongest in one to one combat.
Tim: Under the right circumstances he can be killed by an Alien thought...
Jason: Thats true
Tim:...or from Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Jason: ....so from a human, right. You have to look to the source material, which are the movies for me, to filter out the fun stuff. And i guess we did that pretty good!
