"Hudson sir. He's Hicks."

Hudson said "Game over, man!" :)

Just because almost anyone who has ever seen it has seen it on a TV doesn't mean Starship Troopers was a TV show. I believe the television show was called Space: Above and Beyond. Unless you count that weird brief CG show that I only ever saw on DVD.

Hicks? More like Hudson

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Hudson not Hicks....

Not to nitpick--well, actually to do exactly that--but both quotes you list are from Hudson (Bill Paxton's character). To use another of his quotes:
"[I'm] Hudson, sir. He's Hicks."

sigh I've watched that movie way too many times.

Starship Troopers did air as an animated series called "Roughnecks"... I think it lasted 2-3 seasons. It wasn't bad for TV animation, but I was into Transformers: Beast Wars at the time.
I do miss Space: Above and Beyond; a shame the way they killed the series.

@Garrison Dean: The "weird brief CG show" was a thousand times better than any of the movies. I shit you not. Good writing, intense action, very mature for what it was.

Anyway, the game looks promising. It's too easy to screw up, though, so I'll reserve judgment until it gets closer to release. Or -- hey! -- after it's released.

How can the Marines investigate the colony on LV-426? It turned into a cloud of vapor the size of Montana at the end of Aliens. I can sorta believe the alien spaceship survived (although you'd think that if it wasn't destroyed by the reactor explosion, Ripley would've made sure to nuke the site from orbit).

@mitchel_stevens: Hudson sir, he's Hicks.

This game looks like it'll be scary. Can't wait. My only thing.. didn't they nuke the coloney.. and destroy the Sulaco? It'll be awesome to go to the derelict spaceship from the first one, but I wish there was a way to say "I'm not going down there" in a game.

@Sharpless: I watched some of it. It was really good, but there is no way you're going to get me to admit almost anything is better than Verhoeven's Starship Troopers. But the ol' io9 boards have been down this road already so I don't want to open old wounds.

@mitchel_stevens: Beat me to it

The Aliens games have generally been so-so, relying more on Doom III style play - walk into a dark room, alien springs out from behind you, rinse, repeat. Let's hope it also has a Predator or two.

...and man I'd love to fly one of those drop ships from orbit!

Let's see. LV-426 was burned to a crisp when the reactor for the terraforming station went critical. The Sulaco was lost when it crashed on the prison planet in Alien3. Maybe the Alien mothership survived, since it was far away from the LV-426 station. But the first two are going to be really hard to investigate.

Oh, yes please! :D

"Somebody wake up Hicks."

Hicks was 20 times the marine that Hudson was.

There was already an aliens shooter on the PC. Was it Aliens vs. Predator? You could play as a marine. Wasn't half bad.

@EBone: I haven't seen Alien 3 in a while, but I thought it was just a lifeboat of some kind that crashed on the prison planet, not the entire ship.

@Seth L:
There were two. AvP2 was somewhat better, with its storyline interleaved between the three species' levels. There was also an expansion pack that offered a chance to play as a Predalien.

this game cannot arrive soon enough!

@Seth L: Agreed. I only played the AVP2 games but really got into them. They were pretty top-notch IMHO.

James Cameron invented 99.9% of FPS video games with that movie. Every first person shooter game ever made owes its aesthetic to Aliens. Except maybe quake 1, which was supposed to be fantasy until they ran out of ideas and dropped back to.. space marines. Again.

@willywag:
Yeah, the Sulaco ejected the pods because it detected the alien.
Good call

BEST MOVIE EVER.

@gfburke: At least the biggest FPS, Halo, isn't inspired by... oh.

@PriorMarcus: Okay, well, there's the WW2 ones, but nobody conceived of making a WW2 game until Saving Private Ryan.

@gfburke: Nah, I actually love FPS and I'm a pretty big Halo fan, so no need to defend the genre to me. That said I thought Bioshock was an amazing break from the norm for the genre in terms of setting and art direction. Loved it.

Wierzbowski!!!!!!!!!!!!
I can't believe I'm the first one to say it.

Wii! Wii! Wii! Wii! Wii! Wii! Wii!
WHY can't it also be coming for the Wii?!?! All that aliensplattinggoodness with my Wiimote in hand - ahh, truly that would be sweeeet.

I still wish it was called AvP3, with modern gaming engines some serious things could be achieved other than another corridor shooter. I'm going to go cry and play AvP2, I was a mean Xeno, wall crawling had never been so good.

@Bal-Cleric:

Amen to that.

Heck, I'd kill for an AVP done with the Havok/HL2 engine. Particularly if the interaction we're seeing in L4D (Zombies tackling and whatnot) is any good.

@girraffesack: I think the Sulaco ejected the pods not because it detected the alien, but because it detected that there was a ship-board fire due to alien facehuggers melting through glass/steel/everything.

Sounds like it may have a decent plot-line since the Sulaco is technically still intact. Let's just hope they don't end up on Fury the prison planet. ;)

@Bal-Cleric: Word. AvP2 is one of the best games ever made.

@Bal-Cleric: Yeah, but then the marines would have comically large heads and the aliens would have little smiles, like LEGO faces. I say this and I HAVE a Wii.

The only thing I can say about this game is it better have a co-op mode where 4 people can play as marines and take on some aliens, that was the biggest issue with the AVP games, single player campaigns in a game seemingly built for squad play.

Maybe its one of those things best left unexplored, but I have always been deeply fascinated by "the pilot" from Aliens, and would love to see him or his species delved into a bit more.

But again, maybe they could not come up with a good enough back story to satisfy my imagination...

@gfburke: Errr... Remember Wolfenstein 3D? The FIRST popular FPS?

That's it man, game over man, game over! What the f#$k are we gonna do now? What are we gonna do?

Here's hoping the co-op AI isn't suicidally incompetent...
When my friends and I got Aliens Vs. Predator: Gold, I received a phone call from a telemarketer while we were still learning the ins-and-out of the game. The telemarketer was trying to sell me a newspaper and meanwhile, I'm yelling out, "You're on fire! Run around! Run around!" Then I told the marketer I was busy. Most satisfying sales call ever.

World's biggest Alien nerd leaps into action!

@SeanOHara: Nebraska, not Montana.

@EBone: As others have said,iIt was the life pod that splashed down on Fury 161. The Sulaco is probably still in orbit around LV-426, but all cripsy. It wasn't the first time she tried to burn to death. And, if you want to accept the USCMC Technical Manual as canon, the derelict alien ship was able to survive the blast as it was behind some mountains. The Illyium Range if memory serves.

@zenpoet: The comics went into the Space Jockey's species. They're, um, badasses.

The size of Nebraska, actually.

Triviagasm - the names of the Colonial Marines in Aliens are taken from names of actual soldiers in the book a Bridge Too Far: Hudson, Hicks, Wiezbowski, Dietrich, Frost, etc.

@SeanOHara: Only way to be sure.

@gybryant: I read most of the alien books, and all the AVP comics, but never did read any of the aliens comics. I might have to see if I can dig some up. As long as they are badass, I will give it a shot.

They mostly come at night....mostly!

Apart from that all I have to say is, SWOON!

That looks like an AvP2 Remake (and ain't nothing wrong with that).

I just hope the story will be longer...

The Wii lacks the graphical umph to use a modern FPS engine. Not to mention, so far the only FPS that's worked on the Wii was Metroid 3. Wiimote + nuncheck really isn't well suited to the genre.

AVP2 is to this day my second favorite shooter (Halo being the first). If they can make it as good as that, I'm all over it.