The Big Idea!

A_Terran_Marine · February 2003

THIS IS FOR THE MOD MAKERS:
What gave you the idea for this mod?

masterswordman · February 2003

I beleive you can find it in the faq for the site <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'>

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>This game looks like a clone of that awesome movie, Aliens. It also looks a lot like the game Aliens vs. Predator.
That's not a question.

Some folks think we are copying the movie called Aliens. The development team would be lying if any of them said that they didn't like the movie, or that it didn't influence them in any way. Aliens was perhaps the most influential sci-fi movie ever made. Like a lot of people our age, we're huge Aliens fans. We've been inspired by the movie's visuals and drama, but Natural Selection has nothing to do with those aliens, Vasquez, or LV-426. Our aliens don't look at all like the ones in Aliens, they don't have acid for blood, etc. Natural Selection fits into the "aliens vs. humans" genre as does Event Horizon and Starcraft. We chose to use familiar subject matter then innovate in the gameplay. The fact that the setting is familiar to people increases the appeal and means more people to play with!

For some reason, a lot of comparisons are made to the excellent Aliens vs. Predator, even though that was primarily a scary single-player first-person-shooter and we're a multiplayer-only first-person strategy game. You can play as an alien, but that's where the similarities with AvP end.
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Zergling · February 2003

there are also a lot of starcraft influences.

HWGuy_in_a_Can · February 2003

The Heavy Armor reminds me of the Powered Armor as described in Robert A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers.

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