Aliens: Fireteam Elite News

Aliens: Fireteam Elite launches on Steam in August

June 23, 2021 Aliens: Fireteam Elite will launch on Steam August 24.

Aliens games have swung wildly from one side of the quality pendulum to the other - Aliens: Colonial Marines is remembered as one of the last decade's biggest gaming disasters, while Alien: Isolation was a pitch-perfect invocation of the first film's tense mood and deliberate pacing. Today we have a new prospect before us in the form of Aliens: Fireteam, a co-op survival shooter that looks like it aims to correct the mistakes of Colonial Marines.

Developer Cold Iron Studios describes Aliens: Fireteam as a "cooperative third-person shooter set within the Alien universe." Judging from the images the studio has revealed, this is definitely an Aliens game, with hordes of bloodthirsty xenomorphs pitted against your team of heavily armed colonial marines. The aliens swarm in droves over walls, ceilings, and floors, and the marines respond with flamethrowers, pulse rifles, and any other weapons they can lay hands on.

It all looks very true to the source material, and Cold Iron says it's set 23 years after the events of the original film trilogy. As a colonial marine, you'll set out to answer a distress call from one of Weyland-Yutani's far-flung colonies, and your job will presumably be to go on the 'bug hunts' that Private Hudson refers to in the movie.

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Latest Gameplay Information

Hey all,

In case you missed it, we've dropped a bunch of information on the game this month. Here is a round-up of all that info!

Check out a full mission playthrough of Aliens: Fireteam:
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Here's an overview of the Gunner and Technician class kits:
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Here's a recap of IGN's impressions of the game:
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For information on the Runner, Drone, Praetorian, Prowler, Burster, and Spitter Xenomorphs in Aliens: Fireteam, click here!

For iconic weapons from the Alien universe, including the M41A2 Pulse Rifle and the L56A3 Smartgun, click here!

For all the details for how Aliens: Fireteam fits in the Alien universe, click here!

For an Unfiltered discussion with the Head of Studio and Chief Creative Director at Cold Iron Studios, check this out:
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Introducing Aliens: Fireteam

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Set in the iconic Alien universe, Aliens: Fireteam is a cooperative third-person survival shooter that drops your fireteam of hardened marines into a desperate fight to contain an evolving Xenomorph threat.

Aliens: Fireteam is a co-op survival shooter set 23 years after the trilogy

The Colonial Marines have returned to take on the Xenomorph threat in a new game centered around the world of Aliens. These dangerous beings should not be confronted alone, so developer Cold Iron Studios wants players to grab their friends for a new third-person co-op survival shooter called Aliens: Fireteam.

Aliens: Fireteam, the Aliens game originally teased on the Cold Iron Studios website, will center around the Colonial Marines and take on more of an action focus. For franchise fans, think more James Cameron than Ridley Scott. The game takes place in the year 2202, roughly two decades after the events of the original trilogy. A distress call leads players to the LV-895 colony, which has been overrun by Xenomorphs. The Colonial Marines will move in threesomes, either comprised of online friends or AI-controlled bots. More than 20 different enemy types await, including 11 different Xenomorph variants, all of which will approach combat in their own way.

Players can approach the Xenomorph menace in their own way, picking from five different classes. The Gunner, Demolisher, Technician, Doc, and Recon classes all serve different roles and can each select from a pool of more than 30 different weapons and 70 different mods and attachments. Players can evolve over time and progress through a Perk Board, which contains modifiers and abilities. Cold Iron is promising new storylines that can be experienced over the course of replayable campaigns.

Aliens: Fireteam is set to release on PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One in Summer 2021 with pricing yet to be determined. However it plays out, it certainly can't be any worse than the last game to feature Colonial Marines.