Aliens: Dark Descent Announced for PS5, Xbox Series X|S, PS4, Xbox One, and PC - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 09 June 2022 / 1,437 Views
Publisher Focus Entertainment and developer Tindalos Interactive have announced real-time strategy game, Aliens: Dark Descent, for the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC via Steam. It will launch in 2023.
View the world premiere reveal trailer below:
Here is an overview of the game:
In Aliens: Dark Descent, command a squad of hardened Colonial Marines to stop a terrifying Xenomorph outbreak on Moon Lethe. Lead your soldiers in real-time combat against iconic Xenomorphs, rogue operatives from the insatiable Weyland-Yutani Corporation, and a host of horrifying creatures new to the Alien franchise.
You are the commander. They are your weapon.
Infiltrate large open levels and annihilate enemies with your squad, dispatching orders strategically and intuitively at the touch of a button. Tread carefully, as your foes will adapt their tactics to your actions while hunting you down because death is permanent. Forge unique paths for survival, uncovering shortcuts, creating safe zones, and setting up motion trackers in a persistent world where your actions impact levels forever.
Customize your squad with a selection of different classes. Level up and specialize your soldiers with unique abilities and an arsenal of weapons, armor, and perks, for high stakes missions in treacherous territory. Develop your base to research new tech and improve your squad even further.
Manage your resources wisely and take calculated risks to outsmart the deadliest creature mankind has ever faced. Can you and your squad stop the outbreak before it’s too late?
Key Features:
- Face off in a gripping original Alien story against iconic Xenomorph creatures ranging from Facehuggers to Praetorians, Alien Queens and many more, including rogue human commandos and a brand-new threat unique to this Alien storyline.
- Lead strategically and change squad tactics from mission to mission, carefully managing your soldiers’ health, resources, and sanity, to avoid permanent team losses and mental breakdowns.
- Forge unique paths for survival in a persistent world, uncovering shortcuts, creating safe zones and setting up motion trackers to stay one step ahead of these creatures.
- Assemble and level up squads composed of five starting Marines classes, with dozens of specializations, unique abilities, and weapons.
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Kinda strange how Tactics is the new RTS, instead of Tactics actually being a sub genre of Real Time Strategy, because most of the time, especially in recent years, Turn based Tactics have been making a return, and this game is either going to be real time with pause, or function like XCOm with unit movement, but either way, it doesn't scream RTS as in, C&C, but more "Squad Based Tactics", which is the sort of tag it should have chosen to better describe itself.
I used to be chill with TBT games, but I grew distant from those over the past decade, and all I'm really after now are base building RTS titles, but those are few inbetween, but at this current time there are more and more tactics based games, esp turn based and RTWP ones showing up, which kinda leads me to seeing it as yet another case of trend chasing.
That being said, I do wish they would tag their games properly, because when I poriginally saw "RTS" I straight up thought of the original AvP RTS game, which featured a degree of base building/unit management.
When you look at the screens for this new game, it straight up resembles XCOM, and not an actual RTS game, but more of a Tactics/RTWP tactics game.
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