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Aliens: Fireteam Elite
Developer(s)Cold Iron Studios
Publisher(s)Cold Iron Studios
Composer(s)Austin Wintory
SeriesAlien
EngineUnreal Engine 4
Platform(s)
ReleaseAugust 24, 2021
Genre(s)Third-person shooter
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

Aliens: Fireteam Elite is a 2021 multiplayer third-person shooter game developed by Cold Iron Studio in collaboration with Disney's 20th Century Games.[1][2] It is the first Alien game since Alien: Blackout and is a standalone sequel to the original Alien trilogy.[1][3] In contrast to Alien: Isolation, Fireteam Elite is more in line with Aliens: Colonial Marines, and focuses on action rather than survival-horror.[4] The game is a third-person co-op shooter, able to be played with friends or AI teammates.[5]

Gameplay

Although based on the second film, the game's story is a sequel to the Alien trilogy, set 23 years after the original films. The player assumes the role of a Colonial Marine on board the UAS Endeavor, a spaceship tasked with responding to a distress call from the outer colonies.[1][2] The game has five character classes: Gunner, Demolisher, Technician, Doc, and Recon. The game contains four story campaigns with three missions each, and the player is accompanied by two allies who can be controlled by another player or by an AI.[5] There are five levels of difficulty and twenty types of enemies, and weapon customization and character progression are present within the game.[6] Local co-op is not available, though online matchmaking can be public or private.[7] There are plans for post-launch DLC, but there are no loot boxes or microtransactions.[7][8]

The gameplay seen in the reveal trailer and in a hands-off demo has been compared to the Left 4 Dead duology.[7][9][10]

Plot

In the year 2202, the USS Endeavor receives a distress call from the previously-thought-destroyed Katanga refinery station orbiting the planet LV-895 and moves in to investigate, sending a fireteam of Colonial Marines to board the station. The Marines quickly discover that the entire station has been overrun by Xenomorphs. They manage to rescue the sole survivor of the station, Weyland-Yutani scientist Dr. Timothy Hoenikker. Hoenikker reveals that Weyland-Yutani discovered Xenomorph eggs as well as a mutagenic substance dubbed the "Pathogen" on LV-895, and have been secretly breeding Xenomorphs and experimenting with the Pathogen before the Xenomorphs broke containment.

Determined to find answers, the Marines head down to the surface of LV-895, where they discover alien Engineer ruins that were being studied by Weyland-Yutani. They make contact with another Weyland-Yutani survivor, Cynthia Rodriguez, and head over to stage a rescue despite her insisting she is safe. The Marines fight their way through Xenomorphs and Weyland-Yutani combat synthetics until they reach the Weyland-Yutani facility, where they discover Rodriguez is actually a Mother AI called SN/TH/YA. Since SN/TH/YA has gone rogue, the Marines shut her down, but not before she activates "Asset Zero." The Marines travel further into the ruins and find that Asset Zero is an intact Engineer starship loaded with Pathogen that SN/TH/YA has arranged to send back to Earth. Realizing the danger the ship poses, the Marines sabotage its power source to prevent it from lifting off.

The Marines are then sent back to Katanga to manually overload the station's fusion power core and destroy the Xenomorph hive on board. While they succeed, they are forced to flee when they anger the Hive's Xenomorph Queen, and narrowly escape the station before it explodes.

However, despite the mission's success, Xenomorphs and large stores of Pathogen are still on the surface of LV-895, and both Weyland-Yutani and rival corporation Hyperdyne Systems are sending forces to claim the planet. The Endeavor and its Marines remain to prevent the Xenomorph infestation from spreading and the Pathogen from falling into the wrong hands.

The prequel to the game is the book Aliens: Infiltrator by Weston Ochse, published by Titan Books. The novel tells the backstory of the events that lead up to the game and ends when then game begins.

Development and release

Cold Iron Studios was founded in 2015 by the team which had created games including City of Heroes and Star Trek Online. It was acquired by FoxNext Games in March 2019. FoxNext was a mobile game publisher, and intended to use Cold Iron's new Aliens game to expand its portfolio to include larger scale Triple A projects.[11] FoxNext was later acquired by Disney, which sold off the studio to Scopely, which then subsequently sold Cold Iron to Daybreak Game Company.[12]

The game was released on August 24, 2021 on PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X and Series S.[4][3]

Reception

Aliens: Fireteam Elite received "mixed or average" reviews, according to review aggregator Metacritic.[13][14][15]

IGN awarded the game a 7/10, saying that "there's plenty of wild shootouts with swarms of xenomorphs" in the game, "but some awkward pacing and repetitive level design prevents it from being a classic."[24]

The game was the best-selling retail game in the UK in its week of release.[25]

References

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  18. ^ Mercante, Alyssa (23 August 2021). "Aliens: Fireteam Elite Review: "Won't Blow Your Mind But Will Keep You Entertained"". GamesRadar. Retrieved 23 August 2021.
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  24. ^ Aliens: Fireteam Elite Review - IGN, retrieved 24 August 2021
  25. ^ Dring, Christopher (30 August 2021). "Aliens: Fireteam Elite shoots to No.1". Gameindustry.biz. Retrieved 7 September 2021.
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