Online information on the matter is scarce, so I’m gonna assume the devs reached out to Fox instead of the other way around, as this was a pretty big departure for both Alien and Predator in the realm of video games. Things simply lined up that way.Īfter making an acid splash on PC with two amazing first-person shooters – Rebellion’s Aliens Versus Predator (1999) and Monolith’s Aliens Versus Predator 2 (2001) – Fox Interactive turned to EA and offbeat developer Zono to handle Aliens Versus Predator: Extinction, an RTS (what) only for consoles (double what). The funny thing about the surge of AvP games in those years is that Fox’s first attempt at cracking the crossover on the big screen wouldn’t arrive until 2004, so this wasn’t some kind of huge transmedia push.
Predator, a Fox-captained crossover that had already made some noise in the gaming sphere – check out Capcom’s amazing arcade brawler – and took off thanks to Dark Horse’s fantastic comic books. One sizable IP that enjoyed a big boom in the early 2000s was Aliens vs. This philosophy led to a “gold rush” of AA releases that often was more exciting and memorable than objectively better-made games. In an era of gaming that wasn’t market-researched to hell and back and during which development cycles still made sense, notable publishers such as EA took gambles with pitches that seemed exciting enough and at least guaranteed mining famous properties for quick money. Upgrade weapons and use terrain to an advantage in each level to make certain your team (whoever or whatever they may be) survive until the next battle.I keep coming back to obscure video game releases of the 2000s because there truly was an unhinged “let’s try this and see how it goes” energy going on, especially with games based on big IPs.
Finally, the Aliens are fast and deadly, and always hunt in large packs.
Predators are hardcore fighters, taking the battle right up to the enemy, although there are fewer of them available to counter act their superior power.
The humans have a collection of different units, from heavy weapons experts to medics, and are better known for their long range attacks. Moving away from the FPS series on PC, Extinction has you controlling one of the three races in a real time strategy mix, building each unit and setting them out into the battlefield to complete a range of tasks.Įach race has an advantage and disadvantage. The battle that has split more blood over centuries continues, with the human marines caught in-between the powerful Aliens and the deadly Predators.
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