‘Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2’ Preview: One other Superb Day In Corps
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 nicely it delivered the colonial marines’ motion versus hordes of Xenomorphs that Gearbox Software program’s Aliens: Colonial Marines epically failed to supply.
Whereas the sport wasn’t excellent, Fireteam Elite was nonetheless a strong expertise value 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 season Sport Fest play days, Fireteam Elite 2 wasn’t on my SGF sport schedule, however once 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 acquired to expertise was known 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, house 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 acquired 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, pay attention to your environment, and make the most of your whole instruments granted, no matter class you select.
Teamwork and communication are additionally pressured as a result of in the event you 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 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 widespread enemy kind), 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 hearth 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 lessons, which is able to can help you create your personal 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 study 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 battle as a result of Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 drops someday this summer season.
Till that day, keep frosty.
