In response to CliffyB’s recent Tweets about all the cool stuff he could’ve done (if only the world would just let him and he hadn’t been so woke), including an Aliens game, 3D Realms vice president Frederik Schreiber mentioned that they were also working on a co-op Aliens game before the Disney-Fox merger.
Disney acquired 20th Century Fox in March 2019, resulting in a number of projects getting dropped, apparently including a co-op Aliens adventure shooter from Slipgate Ironworks and 3D Realms.
Yup. Game was called Aliens: Hadleys Hope. We went quite far into pre-production before the Disney/Fox acquisition, and then we had to cancel it, and move on with something else.
Maybe some day! I bet yours was very different than ours? pic.twitter.com/brpq4FgwWT
— Frederik Schreiber (@Freschism) February 11, 2020
Aliens: Hadleys Hope was in pre-production when it was cancelled, but it, apparently, would have been an atmospheric, story-driven, four-player co-op shooter set on a planet full of xenomorph hives. Players would need to work together to survive the xenomorph swarms in order to defeat multiple Queens scattered across the world. There would also have been side-quests for gathering additional loot and lore.
Sort of sounds like Left 4 Dead: Aliens. I would have been down with this.
Via IGN.