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Amazon’s got a super, super spooky Halloween sale going on through October 29, featuring deals that will make you poop yourself in terror, or something.
A quick peek around the corner revealed the new Aliens: Infestation (which was totally great) for $22.49, and the criminally overlooked (and also ghost-themed) Ghost Trick for $14.49. Another deal that made me kind of cower or whatever: Devil Survivor for $21. And if you need fodder for Super Saver shipping, throw in a $6 copy of Saw 2 for PS3. The Metacritic scores are pretty frightening.
![Lance Henriksen, “Bishop” from Aliens, playing the Knife Trick minigame in Aliens Infestation. inspired by his own character (and hand). An AVP Galaxy member met Henriksen at an event yesterday, and “gathered up the nerve to tell him about Aliens: Infestation and the Knife trick mode they put in the game.”
He reportedly enjoyed the game, and its pixelated representation of Bishop’s bloody hand on the title screen. Even in context, it must be a little strange to be handed a video game about cutting up your own hand.
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Lance Henriksen, “Bishop” from Aliens, playing the Knife Trick minigame in Aliens Infestation. inspired by his own character (and hand). An AVP Galaxy member met Henriksen at an event yesterday, and “gathered up the nerve to tell him about Aliens: Infestation and the Knife trick mode they put in the game.”
He reportedly enjoyed the game, and its pixelated representation of Bishop’s bloody hand on the title screen. Even in context, it must be a little strange to be handed a video game about cutting up your own hand.
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Quick Look for Aliens: Infestation. This highly anticipated WayForward game releases this week! Did you get a copy?
Our own JC Fletcher reviewed this DS title at Joystiq and called it “a deliciously tense experience, an accurate Aliens representation and a genuinely unique Metroidvania”. Here’s a great excerpt from his piece:
“The tension in pretty much any room in this game is effective; you’ll find yourself taking a minute in a clear room to load shotgun shells individually, and slowly; you’ll hide behind crates to fire at robots from cover.
While you do find more weapons, unlike other games in the genre, you never become an overpowered super-soldier capable of blasting through earlier areas with abandon.
There’s no Screw Attack equivalent. From beginning to end, you risk death from almost any random enemy, unless you move carefully and conserve ammo.”
And he managed to get through the entire review without using the phrase “Game over, man” at all. Clearly, he is a man with opinions that you can respect, if not admire.
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New Aliens: Infestation trailer. This has a lot of brief gameplay clips, showing various enemies, weapons, and … wait, is that dude shooting other soldiers? What’s going on there? It’s not Humans: Infestation, guy!
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Profiles for nine of Aliens Infestation’s 20 marines (click for larger versions). While none of the characters have unique attributes or abilities — Lt. Col. Patrick Steele isn’t actually playable, he’s the commanding officer guiding you through the adventure — each one has completely different dialogue and their own perspectives as you play through this DS title. Some also have alternate endings.
Out of the archetypal characters shown so far, I like tough girl Samantha “Homewrecker” Johnston and the very emo Zoe “Cutter” Kennedy the most, and will likely try to play through with the latter. Who will you be playing as?
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Bishop’s knife trick re-created as a touchscreen minigame in Aliens Infestation (click for a larger image), scanned from the latest issue of Official Nintendo Magazine.
You can read a couple Aliens Infestation reviews scanned from ONM and NGamer in this AvPGalaxy thread.
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Aliens Infestation continues to look like the most exciting Western game released for portables this fall, not just in these new images but also in the details WayForward has been feeding us through its developer diary:
“We knew early on that it was important to play up the ‘hidden passages’ aspect of the films, in order to give our creatures a believable method by which they could leap out of the floors and ceilings. So each of our game environments has two areas: the main floors, and the air ducts above and below those floors.
Players essentially ‘warp’ between the two types of areas each time they step through a hatch in the ceiling or wall. By locking the players out of standard paths, and forcing them to hop into these confined, dark enclosures (often barely tall enough to crawl through), we limited the player’s options are (hopefully) created unsettling situations.”
WayForward talks more about “creating fear” in Aliens Infestation with these hidden passages, limited visibility for hidden threats, and limited resources in this post.
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Sega and Gearboxity posted two developer blog entries for Aliens Infestation, in which the WayForward team talks about their design philosophy for the DS game, and I’m now convinced this is going to be something special.
Take this excerpt about trying to build a deep connection between players and the game’s characters/world:
“We took a long, hard look at what worked so well in the James Cameron film. And we found that it all essentially boils down to two things: love and loss. James Cameron’s recipe for success was to write the most endearing, badass, memorable action heroes ever, and then kill them off one by one. Love and loss, that’s what the film was built on, beyond all the fantastic action and inventive sci-fi visuals.
We realized a true Aliens game would only work if players got as invested in our characters as we were in Hicks, Vasquez, Apone, Bishop…yes, even Hudson. We had to make players love everything about our Marines: their weapons, their abilities, their appearance, their personalities, even their humor. So that when they died (and we’re talking real, permanent death), it actually meant something.”
WayForward, you have my heart here. If you break it, I’m not sure if I will ever be able to love again.
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New Aliens: Infestation video: They’re coming outta the walls. They’re coming outta the goddamn walls!
All the hands-on previews I’ve read for this Metroidvania have been extremely positive, excited about the game’s atmosphere and accurate recapturing of the original film. At first I chalked it up to people being WayForward fanboys, but I don’t think I’ve heard a single negative thing about this DS game! Very much looking forward to this.
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My most excellent Joystiq colleagues were at PAX this weekend, and picked up a bit of news that is also excellent. Aliens: Infestation, WayForward’s long-delayed, Contra-ish run-and-gun for DS, will be released in North America on October 11, with a European release preceding it on September 30.
For some reason, Aliens: Colonial Marines developer Gearbox was the one to reveal this news (I guess just because it was a panel about Aliens games), but whoever it came from, I’m totally thrilled to know when this is happening. Solatorobo, Kirby: Mass Attack, Dragon Quest Monsters Joker 2, and this are keeping the regular old DS bumping in late 2011!
Speaking of Aliens, I’m not the only person who thinks of this when the Alien franchise comes up, before thinking of any actual Alien movies, right?
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