A Twitter exchange between game designer Cliff Bleszinski and 3D Realms Vice President Frederik Schreiber revealed an interesting bit of insight about the last days of Fox before the Disney merger. As it turns out, there were at least two different Aliens games in the works that got scuttled after the Disney buyout.
The unexpected chat between industry professionals offers yet another view into what could have been if the Disney/Fox merger never went through.
Bleszinski, the co-founder of Boss Key Productions and former design director for Epic Games, described the vision of the would-be game. It would have completely ignored the plot of Alien 3 and cast players in the role of a grown-up Newt, fighting against aliens at a Weyland-Yutani research facility after all hell breaks loose.
Your robotic pal i.e. Bishop? A new one named “Casey” after her doll in Aliens.
— Cliff Bleszinski (@therealcliffyb) February 10, 2020
Schreiber’s proposal was a bit different, and sounds a lot like a Left 4 Dead-style game with Xenomorphs replacing the zombies. The game, which was going to be titled Aliens: Hadleys Hope, was a four-player co-op game in which players worked together to fight off swarms of aliens in atmospheric environments before finally facing off against an alien queen.
Schreiber said that 3D Realms had actually done a fair bit of work on the game concept before it got canned.
This isn’t the only thing that Disney ended up cancelling after merging with Fox – they notably canceled several video game movies as well – and it’s probably not the last we’ll hear about projects that got shoved to the side because of the merger.
Maybe some day! I bet yours was very different than ours? pic.twitter.com/brpq4FgwWT
— Frederik Schreiber (@Freschism) February 11, 2020
It remains to be seen whether any of these projects will once again see the light of day.
Source: IGN
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