With Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2, Chilly Iron Studios hopes its sequel delivers the identical satisfaction because the film Aliens did for the long-lasting film franchise.
Aliens: Fireteam Elite holds a particular place in my coronary heart due to my affinity for the film Aliens, due to how effectively it delivered the colonial marines’ motion versus hordes of Xenomorphs that Gearbox Software program’s Aliens: Colonial Marines epically failed to offer.
Whereas the sport wasn’t excellent, Fireteam Elite was nonetheless a strong expertise price enjoying, so it’s no shocker that there was a lot pleasure coming from me when Chilly Iron introduced Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 is coming this yr.
Heading into Summer time Sport Fest play days, Fireteam Elite 2 wasn’t on my SGF recreation schedule, however after I noticed the sales space, I instantly needed to see if I might get on the schedule to preview the sport. Fortunately, I used to be capable of accomplish my mission.
All I Wanted To Know Is One Factor, The place They (Xenomorphs) Are
Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 takes place 5 years after the primary recreation and 28 years after the primary Alien movie. The demo I received to expertise was referred to as “Rust In Peace,” which places gamers smack dab in the midst of a mission set midway by the sport’s marketing campaign.
We’re alerted to a Weyland-Yutani warship orbiting the colonized planet of LV-558, residence of the colony Storr’s Boon, which is described as a mining operation. Nonetheless, it’s truly nothing however a entrance for Weyland-Yutani’s sinister experiments.
You board the warship on the lookout for intel, solely to find that it’s infested with Xenomorphs and psychotic synthetics. Throughout my playthrough, I received to expertise one of Fireteam Elite 2’s new options, 4-player co-op, as I teamed up with the sport’s builders to make it by the mission.
One other new function is extra aggressive enemies, significantly the Xenos, who will overwhelm you, forcing you to stay cellular, concentrate on your environment, and make the most of your entire instruments granted, no matter class you select.
Teamwork and communication are additionally pressured as a result of should you occur to stray by yourself throughout one of many many pulse-pounding encounters, you may find yourself being a sufferer of one of many many various variants of Xenomorphs.
Talking of Xenomorph selection, the demo gave us a nice-sized pattern of them to shoot at, together with runners (the frequent enemy sort), Spitters, Drones, Prowlers, Exploders, Bursters, and Sirens, who, if not taken care of rapidly, will alert extra Xenomorphs to your location.
Class Is In Session
Like the primary recreation, there are completely different courses so that you can select from earlier than you embark in your missions. I ran with the Hunter, whose specialty is steady fireplace and burst DPS with SMGs, plus shotguns for shut encounters with Xenomorphs and malfunctioning synths.
There’s a new class in Fireteam Elite 2, the Specialist, which supplies gamers the power to combine and match the entire unlocks from completely different courses, which is able to help you create your individual badass xenomorph killing machine.
Different courses embrace the Duelist, Machinist, Medic, and Marauder, providing you with loads of choices when embarking on missions.
I used to be already a fan of the primary Fireteam Elite recreation, so I used to be very excited to be taught that Chilly Iron was quietly engaged on a sequel. The very best half is that we don’t have to attend too lengthy to choose up our pulse rifles and get again into the combat as a result of Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 drops someday this summer season.
Till that day, keep frosty.