Wed, Apr 28, 2010 | 19:53 BST
Obsidian: Canned Aliens RPG felt “ready to ship”
Obsidian CEO Feargus Urquhart has said that before the game was canceled, for all intents and purposes, the Aliens RPG it was working on looked like “a finished game”.
Speaking with Joystiq during an event last week, Urquhart also revealed some of the game’s content.
“Oh, if you had come in and played any of the last builds we were working on, you would have said it was a finished game,” said Urquhart.
“That’s how close we were. It looked and felt like it was ready to ship.”
He then went on to say that you would have played as Colonial Marines in the game and missions involved tasks such as protecting the robot sentry guns axed from Aliens, “multiple types of Marines” and lots of fun gadgetry.
Urquhart also mentioned the developmental challenge of making a “15-foot long Alien turn around at the end of a hallway”.
Stuff of nightmares, there. Maybe more will be revealed on the canned RPG when the non-disclosure agreement is up on 2011.
Unfortunately, the game was , canceled back in June of last year, but there’s always Fallout: New Vegas to look forward to from Obsidian, and Alpha Protocol as well.
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Posted in: Action, PS3, RPG, Sega, Xbox 360
Tags: aliens rpg, feargus urquhart, obsidian
10 comments
#1
Bulk Slash
28/04/10, 8:23 pm
I’m hopeful this might get an unofficial release/leak someday, like Propeller Arena or Starfox 2.
#2
Mauller
28/04/10, 8:24 pm
It’s too bad that Obsidian’s idea of ready to ship means full of bugs and game stopping crashes.
#3
blackdreamhunk
28/04/10, 8:27 pm
release it on the pc if it’s done
or release it as it is for people I mean pc gamers. we will mod so it’s done.
#4
Johnny Cullen
28/04/10, 10:01 pm
I was talking to Obsidian about this yesterday in Paris.
Intersting to say the least.
Stay tuned next week.
#5
AHA-Lambda
28/04/10, 10:07 pm
wat ar you hiding Johnny?
#6
Johnny Cullen
28/04/10, 10:11 pm
#7
The Hindle
28/04/10, 10:17 pm
Hmm Fallout New Vegas, Rage are some of my guesses as to what Cullen has seen. All Bestehda related.
#8
Blerk
29/04/10, 8:29 am
Do we know why Sega canned this? It’s all very well it looking ‘finished’ if it was actually ‘rubbish’.
#9
mington
29/04/10, 8:35 am
Was this the game that got that leaked gameplay footage, it looked like ‘kotor’ mixed with ‘Aliens’, because that looked pantaloons (can i use the word pantaloons as a derogatory remark?)
#10
mington
29/04/10, 8:37 am
yeah it was
and yeah it looked pantaloons
http://kotaku.com/5445544/leaked-aliens-rpg-footage-offers-early-look-at-canceled-game