Posted on Friday 23-Sep-2011 4:10 PM

Canned Aliens RPG concept art

A look at what might have been from the Obsidian and Sega game

By Tom Ivan for computerandvideogames.com

Concept art from the cancelled Aliens RPG has emerged, showing off a range of environments that could have featured in the game.

Alien RPG Screenshot
Planned as a third-person action RPG for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC, the title was in the works at Obsidian and was due to be published by Sega, but we never got to hear much about between its announcement and subsequent cancellation.

Some footage from an early pre-production build leaked, and Obsidian later said the game was pretty much ready to ship when it got the chop.

The art below was created for the project by Charles Lee (via Kotaku), who has also been credited on the likes of God of War, Dungeon Siege III, Lair, SOCOM 4 and Twisted Metal Black.

[ Source: Kotaku ]

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    mw13 on 23 Sep '11 said:

    wish i had the talent to have a job like that, just coming up with and designing those worlds

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    bickle77 on 23 Sep '11 said:

    It was looking good. It must have played like a turd though for it to get canned so late in development

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    richardgeefe on 23 Sep '11 said:

    the same Obsidian that did Alpha Protocol?

    ...just saying....

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    Yellow6 on 24 Sep '11 said:

    It was looking good. It must have played like a turd though for it to get canned so late in development


    Yeah, the art looks lovely.
    It captures the films style.

    But RPG?

    Seriously?

    A proper RPG allows for conversation with the opposition, you can bribe, bully, seduce, lie to or trick them...or as a last resort use violence (like 99% of video gamers :lol: )

    I'm thinking about the RPG elements when you meet the first Alien...."can we talk about this?"....Dead.
    So much for Role Playing.

    I think that's why it got the can, it took them X amount of years to realise there is no Role Playing in a franchise that consists of shooting and biting. It was probably deemed not worth doing as a basic shooter with the other Aliens and Aliens style games on the market.

    I wonder what next, an RPG version of FIFA 12?

    For the record, I love the Aliens film franchise and Role Playing Games too....I just cannot believe someone got the greenlight to combine the two only for the execs to finally wake up and realise it won't work.
    What a waste of time :cry:

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    laminated0 on 25 Sep '11 said:

    Instead of wasting time making and then cancelling what could have been a perfectly good game, how about you make shenmue 3 SEGA??

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    budge on 26 Sep '11 said:

    the same Obsidian that did Alpha Protocol?

    ...just saying....

    I liked Alpha Protocol and i actually think that it did things better in some areas than both Mass Effect 2 and Deus Ex.

    ...just saying... :wink:

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    B_G_G on 1 Dec '11 said:

    the same Obsidian that did Alpha Protocol?

    ...just saying....

    Alpha Protocol was fantastic, I'd consider the gaming opinions of anyone who thinks it was bad to be essentially worthless.