Arrowhead’s appetite for other licenses appears insatiable.
Pilestedt even wants to make a Fifth Element game!
Milla Jovovich is spinning in her grave.
Milla Jovovich isn’t dead, you say?
Well, that’s good news at least.
Pilestedt pitched the Trench Crusade crossover last week in a Xitter reply.
The debonair vultures ofVideogamersubsequently swooped in and did an article about it, which Pilestedthas also replied to.
And now, we’re writing it up too.
What kind of creature is Rock Paper Shotgun in this particular Attenborough scenario?
We arebugs, of course.
Without further ado, here’s Pilestedt’s list.
Starship Troopers is, of course, the book-and-movie franchise Helldivers takes inspiration from.
The game’s satirical forever-war fiction is basically 40K but without the crenelations and waxen seals.
The Terminator, Alien and Predator loom large in the design of Helldivers enemy factions.
Still, I see a few untapped possibilities here that might take Helldivers in fascinating directions.
Here’s a brief list.
- Do a Terminator expansion where one of your team-mates could be a Terminator in a skinsuit.
Most of my team-mates are trying to kill me anyway.
Give us the option of turning ourselves into Dreadnoughts when we die.
by drop-podding your comrades)
- As for Starship Troopers, let us talk to the bugs using telepathy.
It’s what Edge would want, and it actually happens at the end of the Verhoeven film.
Spoilers, I guess!!!
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