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"Aliens: Colonial Marines is a direct follow-up to Aliens, it has been revealed. Set 11 months after the events of the second movie, it will see Marines crash land on LV-426 and attempt to survive against the Xenomorph population. Sega has revealed that it will reference events and set pieces seen in Aliens from within the environment. Senior producer Matt Powers told Digital Spy: &amp;quot;You actually go through some of the areas that people went through in Aliens, and you&amp;#039;ll find things that were left from those people. &amp;quot;[You find items] they dropped, and other things. But we really try as hard as we can to do a lot of calls and tie-ins to the canon, because we know there&amp;#039;s a lot of fans out there. If people really pay attention they&amp;#039;ll see things from the movie or something that happened after the movie.&amp;quot; As well as adhering to the movie, developer Gearbox Studio has worked with Fox to establish its own additions that will become canon, including a new Crusher alien-type with a horned head that will chase and ram the marine team. Powers explained: &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s actually been really nice working with Fox, because they recognise that it&amp;#039;s a very popular franchise, and they know the difference between making a movie and making a video game. &amp;quot;So there&amp;#039;s certain things that you saw in the [gamescom demonstration], like the Crusher, it&amp;#039;s the Xeno with the big head, that&amp;#039;s not from the movie. But we talked to Fox and they totally agree that we need different types of Xenos, to do different things to make really great gameplay.&amp;quot; Powers added of the tie-ins: &amp;quot;Then we write the story, and the guys at Gearbox are totally fanatics for Aliens, but they had a lot of questions: &amp;#039;What happened afterwards, where did these people go?&amp;#039; So there&amp;#039;s a lot of tie-ins, and [we] ran all those by Fox, and they gave us a lot of ideas, but they&amp;#039;ve also been very easy to approve.&amp;quot; Aliens: Colonial Marines will be available on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC in early 2012. &amp;gt; Read our preview of Aliens: Colonial Marines from gamescom 2011 &amp;gt; Follow our ongoing gamescom 2011 coverage "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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