You'll engage in fierce firefights in Aliens: Fireteam.
You can use a flamethrower against acid spitters in fierce firefights in Aliens: Fireteam Elite.
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Aliens: Fireteam Elite impressions — A high-intensity co-op shooter

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Aliens: Fireteam Elite doesn’t have many frills. A new survival shooter with co-op play, this game doesn’t have the kind of fancy cinematics you’d expect for something set in the Aliens sci-fi franchise. But it does have really intense combat.

It’s coming out in North America and Europe on August 24 for the PC, PlayStation, Xbox consoles. I played the final version of the game from Cold Iron Studios game over the past few days.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.