Alien Breed 2004

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Alien Breed 2004
Developer(s)	Team17
Engine	Snowblind Engine
Release date(s)
Genre(s)	Run and gun
Mode(s)	Single player, Multiplayer
Rating(s)	N/A
Platform(s)	PlayStation 2
Media	DVD-ROM
Input	DualShock2 Controller

Alien Breed 2004 (sometimes AB2K4 or AB2004) is an unfinished and shelved game in Team17's Alien Breed franchise, a series of Science Fiction-themed shooters largely inspired by the Alien films. It was announced as in development in 2003, and was shelved in early 2005.

This is the second known title in the Alien Breed series to be cancelled, after the aborted PC first-person shooter title Alien Breed: Conflict.

1 Information
2 Speculation
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Information

The game was reportedly being developed using the Snowblind Engine that Snowblind Studios had been using for the Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance and Champions of Norrath franchises. Early screenshots released on the CVG website (and later seen on Dream17's page for AB2004) showed that the game was returning to its roots with a semi-top-down perspective rather than the first-person perspective seen in the previous two games, AB3D & TKG.

Despite enthusiastic discussion on Team17's official Forum from both fans of the series and Team17 Staff, a lack of publisher interest resulted in the shelving. Martyn Brown, creative director at Team17, has stated that there is a new Alien Breed project in the works.

[edit] Speculation

Given that the game had taken a step away from the first-person genre, some people view this game as an attempted remake of the original Alien Breed. This is also implied by the title, although titles such as 'x 2004' are usually placeholder titles until a final title is decided upon, and are more often indicative of the intended year of release.

Please also keep in mind that the Play Mode, Media and Input information in the Infobox above is also speculative. A Multiplayer mode is assumed to have been in development as screenshots show two players in a spaceship-like environment, as well as the fact that all previous Alien Breed games have had Multiplayer modes. The DVD-ROM mediatype and DualShock 2 controller information is also speculative based on the specifications for the PlayStation 2, however it is unlikely that the game would have come on another format, or that it would have used a different, game-specific controller.