Aliens: Dark Descent Reveals Release Date and New Tactical Gameplay

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Aliens: Dark Descent is the subject of a trailer that reveals new gameplay footage and provides a release date for the game all in the same breath. The Alien franchise has a long history in the world of video games and spans a wide variety of genres. The franchise's most notable game in recent history is Alien: Isolation, regarded as one of the best modern survival horrors. Aliens: Dark Descent will be the first Alien game in the real-time strategy genre since Alien Versus Predator: Extinction released in 2003 to an overall lukewarm reception.

The first trailer for Aliens: Dark Descent was revealed at the 2022 Summer Games Fest but didn't contain much gameplay footage. The Summer Games Fest trailer mostly consisted of an unnamed marine recounting what he had seen and experienced at the Tantalus Base where the game will presumably take place. The trailer closes with the unnamed marine surrounded by Xenomorphs. Only a few seconds of gameplay were featured at the end of the reveal trailer before «2023» is displayed.

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The new gameplay trailer gives prospective players their first look at what to expect from Aliens: Dark Descent. The game is a real-time strategy where the player acts as the Commander for a squad of Colonial Marines tasked with investigating a massive Xenomorph outbreak. The combat system appears to have an intuitive design whereby the player issues commands and the game automatically dispatches the marine best equipped for the job to carry out the work. Players can slow down time during combat to facilitate the issuing of commands, but are unable to completely stop the flow of time.

The gameplay trailer gives the impression that