Alien Rage - Discussion Thread

[Gannu]

Not sure if this might turn out to be another mediocre FPS but the gameplay reminded me of Bulletstorm and RAGE for a moment!

And I think the guy is holding a minigun in the video preview! MINIGUN!

 

[jc36lect3r]

They named the game Alien Rage?? Even Hodor would be more creative than this. Looks like a fairly generic corridor shooter, with some pseudo-destruction thrown in.

 

[kvikram]

The cinematic trailer was nice but the gameplay seems too generic.

And why is a minigun called a mini-gun when it's supposedly one of the biggest guns ever?!

 

[Marcus Fenix]

The cinematic trailer was nice but the gameplay seems too generic.

And why is a minigun called a mini-gun when it's supposedly one of the biggest guns ever?!

The miniguns that you see now are mostly 7.62 mm descendants of the 20 mmM61 Vulcan aircraft mounted Gatling gun.Since the US Army had a need in Vietnam to mount hard hitting medium calibre machine guns to their Huey transport choppers with a fast rate of fire to protect from ground fire they downsized the 20 mm Vulcan to a 7.62 mm six barreled gun and called it the minigun since it is a mini version of a aircarft cannon.

You can check out the GAU-8 Avenger which is a 30 mm Gatling gun mounted on A-10 Thunderbolts and these guns spew out 4200 Depleted ranium rounds per minutes whose sole job is to kill tanks.This gun is the size of a VW Beetle.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:GAU-8_meets_VW_Type_1.jpg

 

[kvikram]

The miniguns that you see now are mostly 7.62 mm descendants of the 20 mmM61 Vulcan aircraft mounted Gatling gun.Since the US Army had a need in Vietnam to mount hard hitting medium calibre machine guns to their Huey transport choppers with a fast rate of fire to protect from ground fire they downsized the 20 mm Vulcan to a 7.62 mm six barreled gun and called it the minigun since it is a mini version of a aircarft cannon.

You can check out the GAU-8 Avenger which is a 30 mm Gatling gun mounted on A-10 Thunderbolts and these guns spew out 4200 Depleted ranium rounds per minutes whose sole job is to kill tanks.This gun is the size of a VW Beetle.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:GAU-8_meets_VW_Type_1.jpg

Wow! That's really interesting. Thanks for sharing.

 

[dovakhiin]

Not sure if this might turn out to be another mediocre FPS but the gameplay reminded me of Bulletstorm and RAGE for a moment!

I see what you mean about the game looking like Bulletstorm. The gameplay and graphics look a lot like the games from 'People can Fly' (Bulletstorm, Gears of War) and it runs on UE3 too. Maybe they just leased their engine for this game.

 

[Rickyk]

Haven't played Bulletstorm or Rage and the trailer was quite nice but it does look like yet another generic shooter...