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"Aliens: Colonial Marines - Cancelled"

Yep that's right, EA have canned the PS2's Aliens game, got this info from Gamespot:

"Further to our reporting that Aliens: Colonial Marines was "on hold" back in June, Electronic Arts has today confirmed that the game has indeed been cancelled and that there are no plans to pick up its development in the future. Our source at Electronic Arts could not comment on why the game had been cancelled but said that although they had only heard about it recently, they believed the decision was taken a couple of months ago."

Damn, it looked like a great game as well, and had some good ideas thrown in. Shame it's been cancelled.

Well I'm just glad RLH was a game I didn't really build allot of hope on, I can say it never really appealed to me in the first place, just that new vid on PSW made it look quite good.

Silent Hill 3 it is then, and it may not have aliens or a huge arsnal to play with, but it's one of the few horror games I'm really looking forward to right now.

'fraid to say RLH is a bit crap :-(

Thought it would be good, but sad to say that after playing it for a week or so, it's sucks the big one! (as the SR 'Bad Boy' would say.....you know who you are!)

Colonial Marines looked good, god I hate EA.

Anyway, some people may not agree with me concerning RLH, but IMO it's a massive let down and a waste of a potentially great game. Poo :-(

Don`t attach too much importance to one score though... it might still be worth waiting for another opinion or two, all I`m saying is just that you shouldn`t get your hopes up too much as you might be disappointed.

Hmmm, after that score I think it may be worth waiting for Silent Hill 3. A shame because both Colonial Marines and RLH looked pretty good.

Run Like Hell - 6.6 (IGN)

I`m not saying that what they say is law... but it does indicate that perhaps it would be best not to pin our hopes on RLH.

Vottanator wrote:
> Yeah but Run Like Hell is a survival horror like Resident Evil, isn't
> it? The one with Lance Henrikson's voice, yeah?
>
> I hate survival horrors. Well, I hate Resi. So slow and clumsy.
>
> First Person Shooters are so much better. Plus the motion sensor from
> Aliens would have added so much tension to Colonial Marines. When
> you're close to dying and then you hear the beeping....

Hmmm, I'm not quite sure if it is a proper survival horror, from the video i've seen of the game there appears to be far more action then games like Resi. Plus the enemies in the game will adapt to your fighting tecniques after a while making it harder for you to kill them. Should make things more interesting.

Run Like Hell looks allot like Aliens, from the actual alien design to the small carridors of the spacecraft your on, so I think it'll do nicely as a replacement for Colonial Marines.

FantasyMeister wrote:
> Bah, gutted, that one looked rather good.

Ditto.


> Oh well, maybe Run Like Hell will make up for it.

Ditto.

Damn!! it looked like a great game too! i hate it when they can the most promising games :(

Yeah but Run Like Hell is a survival horror like Resident Evil, isn't it? The one with Lance Henrikson's voice, yeah?

I hate survival horrors. Well, I hate Resi. So slow and clumsy.

First Person Shooters are so much better. Plus the motion sensor from Aliens would have added so much tension to Colonial Marines. When you're close to dying and then you hear the beeping....

Yeah, Run Like Hell looked pretty good on this months PSW, far better than footage I saw of it earlier in the year. Should have the same tension and atmosphere Colonial marines probably would have had.