AvP2 Style Mod?

[sonofagun]

Hey guys,

I was thinking through an origional idea for a mod and as i glanced around my room i noticed an old copy of Alien vs Preditor 2 gathering dust in the corner. Then i thought what a great game that was, and imagine the tension you could create with the HL2 engines with the advanced lighting and visual capabilities?

What does everyone think about this idea? Would you:

a) Stay As Close As Possible To Origional
This would mean gaining liscensing rights if possible but there may be a huge community from old game wanting to see it redone on a HL2 engine !

b) Take Old Characters, AvP2 name but add new story and weapons/abilities
Probably easier to get linesing info (I don't know) and i little more origional but taking a bigger risk incase we don't quite make it

c) Just take the genre idea, make new everything
Most origional, no licensing - longer concepting period

Also what other mods are there in this sort of genre?

Thanks all,

 

[OatmealMu]

Include cooperative gameplay, and I'm there! I've always wanted to properly relive Aliens, ie. you + your squad against a horde of aliens.

-Scott

 

[The Dark Elf]

I'm confused, you call it original then say a mod for Aliens vs Predator 2..... erm yeah


Anyway I hear there's a lot of problems in trying to do this, not only is Fox involved (and you know what their like about it, since you in their eyes would be trying to steal their gamers) but its also copyright material so you'd have issues there

Good luck n all that, would be great to see Aliens in the source engine, I just think a few have tried and they've all failed, the only one that got completed(ish) was years ago on the doom or quake engine I think, and it was taken down by Fox shortly after.

You could always do something similar but not too close, then there's not much they can do about it

 

[OatmealMu]

"Announcing the latest Half-Life 2 mod, Awiens VS Pwedator! Play as Wipley and her squad of hardened Cowonial Warines as you battle hordes of Awiens. Slowly creep through the infested colony installation on WV-426 in search of the enormous Qween Awien. Rely on your fellow Warines to cover your rear against not only Awiens but the fearsome Pwedator, as well!"

"Game over, wan, game over!"

"Get away from her, you bwitch!"

That doesn't sound all that bad... does it?

-Scott

 

[The Dark Elf]

"Announcing the latest Half-Life 2 mod, Awiens VS Pwedator! Play as Wipley and her squad of hardened Warines as you battle hordes of Awiens. Slowly creep through the infested colony installation on WV-426 in search of the enormous Qween Awien. Rely on your fellow Warines to cover your rear against not only Awiens but the fearsome Pwedator, as well!"

"Game over, wan, game over!"

"Get away from her, you bwitch!"

That doesn't sound all that bad... does it?

-Scott

lmao, yup thats bound to get around the lawyers is that

The aliens and Predators are easy to use without actually using them, look at the many predator clone movies out there. I saw one a few months ago on sci-fi, it couldn't have been closer to the original predator if it tried, but because it wasn't a direct copy they got away with it (I think) Facehuggers, well Valve copied those with headcrabs, instead of the chestburster they had it turn into a zombie but kept the open chest style.

If you put a lot of work into it who knows, you might come up with something more fun than AvP2 as you wouldn't have those limitations of what the characters can or can't do.

 

[phantomdesign]

If you try to mimic Alien vs. Predator II, you'll run into a huge ammounts of legal problems, probably not making you lose any money, but causing you to waste countless hours.

 

[sonofagun]

Thanks for the help guys,

As it is Sci-Fi (not based on realism at all) we could easily make our own species but keep a similar style of play. As for 'origional', i kinda f****d up - i spose i was trying to say it wont be a direct clone and not many other mods are similar!!

Think I may get the ball rolling, send a couple of enquiry emails, see what the situation is.