News: AvP Resurrection! Yeah, it is!

Woweewow. Aliens Versus Predator. The once king of fast-paced horror and kickass FPS. The game where you could actually impregnate a human's face as a face-hugger. Or pin heads to the wall with your trophy-hunting as Predator before Half-Life 2 came along with the crossbow gun. And the Marines, the macho-istic kickass soldiers from the not-so-distant future armed to the teeth and hell-bent on eradicating those mean, fast moving motherf*kas.


Those were the good ol' days. And that was before Hollywood came along and tore a big hole in the game series with those shite movies. Apparently AvP will be back, in a somewhat updated, reboot fashion. And it's created by the folk who did the original that I so love.

For now, only press release type info from Sega, about how the game will be huge with focused campaigns for each of the three races - Marines, Aliens, and Predators, on top of a mega multiplayer three-way slugfest. I remember the Marines' campaign in the original one being a scary mofo ride, the only game so far in my history as a gamer that had the right atmosphere to freak.

Now, the most interesting bit in all this, is the fact that it'll be released in 2010. Another game that will be released in 2010 which is also interesting, is Gearbox's (Brothers in Arms folk) own Aliens game called Aliens: Colonial Marines. If you've read the review I just posted on BiA, or know BiA, you'll know that Colonial Marines will be exactly that; a tactical squad based shooter set in the Aliens universe. I don't know about you, but that gets my juices flowing. But info on that is near-dead, in fact, rumors are floating around that Gearbox has stopped working on it. Fingers-crossed that ain't true, but for now, AvP is back for certain.

Here are some screen-grabs courtesy of Rock, Paper, Shotgun. In my opinion, the graphics look awesome, very photo-realistic and also very Crysis. I wonder if they are using the CryEngine?