Aliens: Dark Descent gets a brief first bit of Xenomorph-filled gameplay

The upcoming, tactical squad-based motion sport Aliens: Darkish Descent received its first little bit of gameplay proven off through the Disney & Marvel Video games Showcase at D23.

First revealed again in June, Aliens: Darkish Descent is a brand new single-player motion sport set to launch in 2023 from Tindalos Interactive and Focus Leisure, however no gameplay was proven on the time. Now, though solely briefly, we have had our first have a look at the squad-based shooter in motion.

The trailer reveals the top-down sport in motion, the place you “take your squad of marines on missions as you infiltrate and examine the Xenomorph outbreak. Develop your techniques, assemble your colonial marines, and tackle the Xenomorph hordes.”

It appears such as you’ll have a spread of weapons and instruments at your disposal as you are taking a birds-eye view of the scenario, having to take care of each your squad, in addition to maintaining a tally of any Xenomorph’s that could be out to get you.

Final month, VG247 had the chance to expertise a hands-off 30-minute demo, and located it to be extra than simply an XCOM clone, and fairly true to the films.

“Palms-off demos are clearly not as helpful as attending to play it, however at first blush from a half hour of gameplay,” wrote our assistant editor Alex Donaldson. “Aliens: Darkish Descent appears nice. It’s additionally a special type of Alien-based expertise – much less the creeping horror of the primary film and extra the extraordinary motion of the second. Xenomorphs are robust, however you’re nonetheless taking them down in comparatively giant numbers – actually, you’re arguably most frightened about being overrun.”

Missions additionally sound like they’re going to have fairly the vary of run occasions, with some solely being so long as 20 minutes, others lasting an entire hour, with quite a lot of difficulties to match, the longer ones sometimes being the more durable of the bunch.