ALIENS: FIRETEAM

It’s Left 4 Dead but with xenomorphs, basically

- Andy Kelly

NEED TO KNOW

RELEASE Summer

DEVELOPER Cold Iron Studios

PUBLISHER In-house

LINK aliensfireteam.com

In this new co-op survival shooter, you create your own Colonial Marine, team up with three friends online (or bots), and battle xenomorphs, rogue androids, and other alien-themed enemies across four campaigns. Set 23 years after the movies, you’ve been sent to protect colonies from xenomorph attacks, which have become a regular occurrence.

Developer Cold Iron makes it clear that the inspiration here is Aliens, not Alien. And I can’t help but think, “Haven’t we done this already?”. So many shooters have riffed on James Cameron’s 1986 sequel that it’s become a cliche. And after Alien: Isolation, Fireteam feels like a step backwards.