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It’s very easy to make a game frightening by intelligently placing cheap scares along the way to get a few jumps out of players, but it’s a lot more difficult to flood an experience with extreme tension and horror to add impact to those cheap scares.
Things like ambient sounds, moody lighting and atmospheric environments all contribute to the tension of a game, which ultimately lead to moments of catharsis to allow you to let off some steam and release that tension… before starting all over again.
No wonder gamers are such a twitchy lot!
Both SEGA and Warner Bros. Interactive brought games to E3 2011 that weren’t entirely known quantities while further demonstrating some of their upcoming titles that will, at the absolute very least, find die-hard fans in amongst the gaming masses.
Let’s take a look at SEGA and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment’s biggest titles at E3 this year:
Quick, grab the debut screenshots for Gearbox Software’s recently unveiled Aliens: Colonial Marines!
Hurry, they’re heading this way!
[Update] Added the debut teaser trailer below. [End of Update]
Gearbox has just dropped a super surprise announcement and revealed that its much talked about shooter set in the ‘Alien’ universe is indeed still alive and kicking, and will make a showing at E3 2011 next week.
Additionally, Gearbox has announced that the game will launch in the ‘Spring’ of 2012.
What’s the game? Aliens: Colonial Marines!
SEGA have a bit of a problem on their hands, and in some ways it’s a good problem to have, but in others, it’s quite tricky.
Plainly speaking, the publishers most known for Sonic the Hedgehog currently have two games in production at two different development companies that involve the Alien movie property in one way or another, one by the name of Aliens VS Predator (from Rebellion) and the other called Aliens: Colonial Marines (from Gearbox Software).
Not only that, but the two games are looking pretty similar, both played from a first-person viewpoint and both looking dramatically dark and moody in presentation.
After the reported poor performance of Gearbox Software’s Brothers in Arms: Hell’s Highway, and the subsequent redundancies seen at the company, it was feared that future Gearbox games were in jeopardy.
Chief amongst the Gearbox games gamers were clamouring to get was Aliens: Colonial Marines, a first-person shooter set in the Alien universe. After the rough times at Gearbox, it was rumoured that SEGA, publishers of the game, were to cut the project due to lowered confidence in the title and Gearbox.
Gearbox chief Randy Pitchford immediately came out to say that the project was not cancelled, but confidence was not especially high as he tried to spin the bad news of the staff redundancies into a positive message of growth for the company.
SEGA have come to the rescue, however, now revealing in their release schedule that Aliens: Colonial Marines is in fact still on course for a quarter one 2009 release, falling somewhere between April and June, which is in line with SEGA’s first quarter.
The rest of SEGA’s release schedule (full of release ‘windows’) follows below:
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