Looking back at cancelled games is always a fun “what if” exercise, especially in this case.
Obsidians role-playing chops in an Aliens game?
Were our charisma stats going to protect us from the ever-murderous Xenomorphs?
I got to work on an Aliens RPG for SEGA from 2006-2009, Sawyer wroteon Twitter.
Obsidian didnt have directors at that time, just leads who were all considered peers.
Sawyer also said that the game had cool ideas… but you dont ship ideas!
What would the Aliens RPG have actually looked like, though?
Sawyer says the overall setup between Obsidians game and co-op shooterAliens: Fireteam Elitewas similar.
He also posted some of the RPGs characters with a mournful RIP, squad.
In fact, our headline image fromthis articleshows off one of the remixed Xenomorphs that would have been featured.
The bulky design would have surely made hardcore fans salty, but hey, its an RPG.
You need canon fodder aliens, human-sized aliens, tanky aliens, maybe even flying ones.
Those are the rules.
For now, we can only close our eyes and fantasise about what could have been.
