Fireteam has five classes: Gunner, Demolisher, Technician, Doc, and Recon. What you bring into battle with you depends on your class. Img: Cold Iron Studios/20th Century Games

Weapons include the standard-issue M41A Pulse Rifle and fragmentation grenades, but also new inventions like charge coils: sticky shock grenades that stun Xenomorphs in place. Grouping up in teams of three, players will have weapons and class-specific talents to help them in battle. The Colonial Marines of Fireteam are by no means defenseless, head of Cold Iron Studios Craig Zinkievich said in a presentation.

The Colonial Marines of Fireteam have the tools and the talent to take on alien threats, and are dispatched en masse by government order to clean house at remote space colonies.īut that doesn’t mean this will be a simple bug hunt Cold Iron promises an intense challenge, with 11 Xenomorph types, deadly Weyland-Yutani synthetics, and other enemies awaiting players on the surfaces of far-off planets. Such is the case in Aliens: Fireteam, a new third-person, cooperative survival shooter where players take on the role of a green Colonial Marine who knows exactly what they’re getting themselves into.Īliens: Fireteam is set after the events of Alien 3, when the deadly Xenomorph is no longer secret or myth, developer Cold Iron Studios said in a preview event held over Discord. The distinction between Alien and Aliens is clear to any fan of the franchise: When dealing with plurals, expect a firefight.

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