Aliens: Colonial Marines news

[FrieChamp]

Randy Pitchford: One thing that's cool is some of the people we've been able to work with to help us [on Aliens]. The guys that write the Battlestar Galactica series, Bradley Thompson and David Weddle, they wrote our script. They're amazing guys. They gave us a lot, too. We could make a whole season of TV with the stuff they gave us. [laughs] We profited from the writer's strike, let's just put it that way. We talked with a lot of people, but those guys are so good.

And then a lot of the concept guys that helped make the movies. Like [Aliens concept artist] Syd Mead, that guy walks on water. And to be able to go to his studio, his house, and then have him draw a bunch of stuff. "Here's when I designed the Sulaco back when we made the first movie. Here's the original artwork. You want a copy, Brian?" And Brian's like, "Yes."

And now he's designing all the new stuff, because the Sulaco's a big ship and we only saw a bit of it, so you get the guy who designed it to design the rest of it. And he's awesome, he designed so much stuff. And then like [concept artists] Keith Thompson, Craig Mullins.. anybody who knows these names knows what we're talking about. This is no joke.

It's a big team. And we're also working with people from all over the world. We've been working with a lot of amazing talent at other studios. I don't know how much of that will be used in PR, but there's a lot of people who care about this franchise. The opportunity to build a dropship, or build a pulse rifle, or build a smart gun, that's a pretty cool opportunity--a lot of artists would want to do that. So we have our core Gearbox team, but we're also finding a lot of folks around the industry now, guys who are on top of their game.

From: http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/53815

Screenshots: http://www.shacknews.com/screenshots.x? ... &id=123730

I hope all these great writers and artists help to make a truely better game. I surely feel excited

[-HP-]

Aww man, I'm not sure why, but I'm with some very high expectations for this game, I hope I wont be disappointed!

And the marines still look like 16 years old kids!! Gearbox, do something about it, they'r supposed to look like badasses!

[PogoP]

I'm sure it'll be awesome, but the human models look a little bit stiff still. (This isn't EOT, no penis jokes please! )

[dux]

That was one of the first screens released so they've probably changed a lot by now?

[PogoP]

Oh I presumed they were new shots. Dux, you put a question mark instead of a full stop. Damn punctuation noob.

[2d-chris]

Battlestar galactica scripts are just fantastic, god, i'm even more hyped now ...

[Erratic]

Thing's look a lot dirtier with this batch, I like.

[Seldoon182]

So what's next? a TV show?

[Chunks]

From what randy says it sounds like a fucking awesome game. He did a better job of that than any pr person could, lol.

I hope we get some new screens those looked awful familiar.

[kleinluka]

I like the way the environments look and the guns but the characters (soldiers specifically) look like toys to me :/

I hope that's gonna be changed

[Seldoon182]

The first trailer scaried me !

[-HP-]

Ah, goood, goooood, they captured the aliens feeling pretty well!

[D3ads]

Meh, I bet that's not even in-game.

[PogoP]

Umm, that shouldn't even be classed as a trailer :/

I know what Aliens is about damnit, show me some footage!

[2d-chris]

Has that person who was reporting "it's some kind of egg" not seen the movies?? Where has he been living, Mars? Dumb ass space scientists