With Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2, Chilly Iron Studios hopes its sequel delivers the identical satisfaction because the film Aliens did for the enduring film franchise.
Aliens: Fireteam Elite holds a particular place in my coronary heart due to my affinity for the film Aliens, due to how nicely 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 good, Fireteam Elite was nonetheless a stable 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 sport schedule, however after I noticed the sales space, I instantly needed to see if I may 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 sport and 28 years after the primary Alien movie. The demo I bought to expertise was referred to as “Rust In Peace,” which places gamers smack dab in the course 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, dwelling 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 bought 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 characteristic 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 all your instruments granted, no matter class you select.
Teamwork and communication are additionally harassed as a result of for those who occur to stray by yourself throughout one of many many pulse-pounding encounters, you’ll be able to find yourself being a sufferer of one of many many alternative variants of Xenomorphs.
Talking of Xenomorph selection, the demo gave us a nice-sized pattern of them to shoot at, together with runners (the widespread enemy sort), Spitters, Drones, Prowlers, Exploders, Bursters, and Sirens, who, if not taken care of shortly, will alert extra Xenomorphs to your location.
Class Is In Session
Like the primary sport, there are completely different lessons 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 flexibility to combine and match all the unlocks from completely different lessons, which is able to permit you to create your individual badass xenomorph killing machine.
Different lessons embrace the Duelist, Machinist, Medic, and Marauder, supplying you with loads of choices when embarking on missions.
I used to be already a fan of the primary Fireteam Elite sport, so I used to be very excited to be taught that Chilly Iron was quietly engaged on a sequel. The most effective 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.
