History Videogame / AliensColonialMarines

** Weyland-Yutani makes use of heavy troopers armed with smartguns and wearing heavy armor that lets them soak a couple dozen bullets before dropping.

''Aliens: Colonial Marines'' is a FirstPersonShooter developed by Gearbox Software, set in the ''Film/{{Alien}}'' universe, and follows a group of United States Colonial Marines as they investigate the circumstances behind what happened to Ellen Ripley and the survivors of the USS Sulaco.

Players are put into the shoes of Lieutenant Christopher Winter, a Marine who is tasked with assisting two squadrons of Marines who have boarded the USS Sulaco, which has mysteriously reappeared over the planet LV-426. When the situation becomes desperate and Winter's unit is forced down onto the planet's surface, they discover an alien infestation more intense and horrific than anything they could have imagined, and must fight to escape the planet and stop the xenomorphs once and for all.

Colonial Marines is presented as the "true sequel" to the ''Aliens'' film, and boasts authentic locales from the film universe (including the U.S.S. Sulaco and the Hadley's Hope colony, among several others) and classic weaponry ranging from pulse rifles to flamethrowers, as well as new equipment and skills all within a squad-based combat system. It features a story driven single-player mode as well as a four player co-op mode allowing players to share the experience with three friends.

* TrashTheSet: The USS Sulaco becomes progressively more and more destroyed throughout the first three missions due to a number of circumstances (massive battles with groups of xenomorphs and Weyland-Yutani PMC's, hull breaches, broken windows, a destroyed dropship, etc).

* PrivateMilitaryContractors: Weyland-Yutani hired [=PMCs=] to stop the crew of the Sephora from investigating the Sulaco.

** Alien Resurrection also takes place hundreds(?) of years after this. Either the technology didn't exist yet, or the marines simply didn't know that it's possible to slice the creature out. Also if I recall, the Ripley clone was heavily sedated in the film, so it's possible the Chestburster was riding a painkiller high as well keeping what preservation mechanisms it normally has from kicking it.
** Still doesn't explain how they could do it in [[Prometheus]], which is set before this game (if you accept Prometheus as part of the Aliens universe)

* ShoutOut: Whilst exploring the Weyland-Yutani lab, you find a room full of chestbursters being held in suspended animation in big glass tubes. In a small room you can find and empty container with a straw hat and cane in it, a nice shout out to ''Spaceballs''.

The game is set to be released across several platforms on February 12, 2013.

-->Well technically A:R Ripley was an alien queen-human hybrid so maybe the above doesn't apply to her.

* ColonyDrop: The nend result of the Sephora expedition onto the Sulaco is that [[spoiler:both ships are destroyed, with pieces of the Sephora crashing into the landscape of LV-426]].

* You can finally discover what happened to [[spoiler: Pvt. Hudson]] during "The Raven" - [[spoiler:you find his cocooned and chestbursted body while escaping through the hive at the beginning of the mission]].

* SecondaryWeapons: Several of the weapons can be modified to include an underbarrel attachment that fires different types of grenades.

** Winter uses one during his escape from the xenomorph hive under Hadley's Hope.

** According to pre-release interviews, the player can pick up an audio log in Hadley's Hope that has a woman explaining the current situation in the colony, just before she tells [[spoiler:her daughter, Newt]] that they have to leave.
** During Act 2, the player visits the Operations Deck (which has been partially destroyed due to the processor explosion). However, a table that displays a map of the facility is the only item that's still operational (and one of the Marines eyes it curiously) - it's the same map Hudson used to locate the signals of the missing colonists in the film.

* ContinuitySnarl: The game goes out of its way to repeatedly state that it is impossible to remove a chestburster without killing the infectee (as it will cause their organs to begin shutting down one by one), which blatantly contradicts ''Alien Resurrection'' (where a group of doctors pull a queen chestburster out of Ripley early on in the film, and she suffers no ill effects).
** However, it must be noted that not only Ripley in Ressurection is a clone with Xenomorph DNA, but 200 years had passed since the events of Alien 3. Both of which may have been the reason why she survived the process.

* DeadpanSnarker: Three-and-a-half months of torture seems to have had this effect on [[spoiler:Dwayne Hicks]] - upon being released from captivity, the first thing he says when he realizes he's back on LV-426 is, "Oh great. Back here again." Later on, when he [[spoiler:executes the android Michael Weyland]], Bishop is shocked.

* NoGearLevel: At one point Winter loses all his equipment, and must navigate through a xeno-infested sewer by stealth alone. Fortunately, the xeno breed in the sewers is blind and navigates entirely by sound, which makes stealthing past them possible.

* WeaponOfChoice: Throughout the game, the player can discover signature weapons associated with (and used by) the characters in ''Aliens'', including Hicks' shotgun, Gorman's pistol and Hudson's pulse rifle, among others.
* WeldTheLock: Same as in the films, characters will often weld doors shut behind them in an attempt to hold off approaching xenomorphs.

** In the first chapter, Winters and Keyes are heading back to the Sephora across the umbilical bridge after retrieving the Sulaco's flight recorder. Keyes almost makes it across the bridge...[[spoiler:before he starts contorting due to a chestburster beginning to emerge]]. [[spoiler: Just as he dies pulls the pin on a grenade just-as the creature explodes hissing and spitting gore from his rib-cage]].

** In the first chapter, Winters and Keyes are heading back to the Sephora across the umbilical bridge after retrieving the Sulaco's flight recorder. Keyes almost makes it across the bridge...[[spoiler:before he starts contorting due to a chestburster beginning to emerge]]. [[spoiler:He ends up pulling the pin on a grenade to kill himself before the creature emerges]].

** The Aliens have a number of special BossInMooksClothing units; the first encountered is the Crusher, an AdvancingBossWallOfDoom who is completely ImmuneToBullets.

* Weyland-Yutani makes use of heavy troopers armed with smartguns and wearing heavy armor that lets them soak a couple dozen bullets before dropping.
* The Aliens have a number of special BossInMooksClothing units; the first encountered is the Crusher, an AdvancingBossWallOfDoom who is completely ImmuneToBullets.

* YouAreAlreadyInfected: After their dropship crashes on LV-426, Winter comes to as Bishop is explaining to [[spoiler:Bella that there's a chestburster inside of her]].

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''Aliens: Colonial Marines'' is an upcoming FirstPersonShooter being developed by Gearbox Software, and set in the ''Film/{{Alien}}'' universe.

The game is presented as the "true sequel" to the ''Aliens'' film. The player will step into the shoes of a United States Colonial Marine and investigate the circumstances behind what happened to Ellen Ripley and the survivors who escaped LV-426 by traveling through several locales from the film universe (including the U.S.S. Sulaco and the Hadley's Hope colony, among several others). Along the way, they'll discover an alien assault more intense and horrific than ever before. The game boasts classic Aliens weaponry ranging from pulse rifles to flamethrowers as well as new equipment and skills all within a squad-based combat system. It features a story driven single-player mode as well as a four player co-op mode allowing players to share the experience with three friends.

* AirVentPassageway: How the xenomorphs travel throughout Hadley's Hope, much like the films.
* AnyoneCanDie / RedShirt: As evidenced by the E3 2011 demo, many generic Marines will meet their end at the hands of the xenomorphs.
* ArtificialLimbs: A marine who appears to be in charge in the demo had an artificial leg.

* BackFromTheDead: Michael Biehn will reprise his role as Cpl. Dwayne Hicks in the game. Whether it's the actual character returning or just an audio/video log hasn't been explained yet.
* BackupTwin: Rook (voiced by LanceHenriksen) is supposedly this - an android who comes from the same line as Bishop.
* BadassNormal: Cpl. Winter himself. From what is known so far, Winter heads into a hive [[spoiler:in the Sulaco]] by himself to investigate (and subsequently saves a fellow Marine), fends off a xenomorph attack in the cargo bay, then manages to climb out of a depressurizing transfer bridge after [[spoiler:Keyes blows it up]]. And that's just the first act.

* ContinuousDecompression: Used during the escape from [[spoiler:the Sulaco]] - a dropship and the contents of the cargo bay are sucked out through a wall.
* CrapsackWorld: LV-426 is [[ForegoneConclusion in even worse shape]] since the events of ''Aliens''. Thanks to the destruction of the atmospheric processor, the immediate area around the colony is littered with debris. [[spoiler:Crashing two colonial starships into the landscape]] probably won't help matters, either.

* FlippingTheBird: Your character shows just how much of a jackass he is by responding to your Seargent's "how many fingers am I holing up" with ONE.
* GatlingGood: The player can wield a minigun at several points during the campaign.

* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice
* IndyHatRoll

* LateToTheTragedy: The game follows two platoons of Marines who come upon the aftermath of the events of the film (which, in turn, involved Ripley and another squad of Marines arriving at the aftermath of Hadley Hope's last stand).

* MadeOfIron: In the first gameplay walkthrough, the Marine player character (Winters) survives a concussion from unknown circumstances, then shrugs off an xenomorph attack that results in the Marine being thrown through a sheet of glass (while fighting the creature) and falling several metres to the ground. One of the accompanying Marines later comments on your improbable survival (right after you've outrun a Crusher and slid underneath a closing door), noting "You're one tough son of a bitch!"
* NoOneGetsLeftBehind: Winters does this with Keyes, who he rescues from the hive [[spoiler:on the Sulaco]]. [[spoiler:It doesn't end well]].
* POVSequel: At least one act of the game takes place on Hadley's Hope, making it the same plot as the second film (escape the planet while fighting off a horde of xenomorphs), told from the perspective of the reinforcements that were called to assist the previous crew (of the Sulaco) who were there.

* PrivateMilitaryContractors: According to various interviews, Weyland-Yutani has hired [=PMCs=] to stop the crew of the Sephora from investigating the Sulaco.

* RetCon: ''Alien 3'' began with the Sulaco two weeks out from LV-426 before it evacuated the cryopods. ''Colonial Marines'' retcons this by explaining that the Sulaco has been inexplicably circling LV-426 for several weeks. Whether or not there's a reason for this change remains to be seen.
** Possible Fridge Brilliance: the air lock was disengaged during the fight with the Queen in Aliens, it's possible that this disengaged the auto pilot. So everything is still operational, but the auto-pilot was not engaged. The Sulaco would just revolve around LV-426, still racking up a timer but not making any sort of forward progress.

* TakingYouWithMe: According to pre-release gameplay, in the first chapter, Winters and Keyes are heading back to the Sephora across the transfer bridge after [[spoiler:fending off a horde of xenomorphs in the Sulaco]]. Keyes almost makes it across the bridge...[[spoiler:before he starts contorting due to a chestburster beginning to emerge]]. [[spoiler:He ends up pulling the pin on a grenade to kill himself before the creature emerges]].
** The Boilers, again.

* RetCon: ''Alien 3'' began with the Sulaco two weeks out from LV-426 before it evacuated the cryopods. ''Colonial Marines'' retcons this by explaining that the Sulaco has been inexplicably circling LV-426 for several weeks. Whether or not there's a reason for this change remains to be seen.

* ActionBomb: The "Boiler" type xenomorph.

* PrivateMilitaryContractors: According to various interviews, Weyland-Yutani has hired PMCs to stop the crew of the Sephora from investigating the Sulaco.

** A new xenomorph breed identified as "Boilers" has a weaker carapace and is covered in acid-filled pustules, designed as a living suicide bomb.

* PrivateMilitaryContractors: According to various interviews, Weyland-Yutani has hired PMC's to stop the crew of the Sephora from investigating the Sulaco.