Obsidian Declares RTS Job Listing a Typo

Obsidian’s Anthony Davis commented on speculation following the “Project: Upcoming undisclosed title – RTS” bit in their job listing on CreativeHeads.net. Basically, it’s a typo. He goes on to talk KotOR II and Aliens RPG.

You guys are kind of all over the place with this thread.

I confirmed with our HR Manager, Jim Rivers, that the ‘RTS’ is indeed a typo. It should have read ‘RPG’.

Also, I never said KOTOR2 sold as much as Oblivion. I said that it has sold between 1.5 and 2 million copies.

I have no idea what Oblivion sold, but I bet it was a lot.

As far as an Aliens RPG is concerned, there are a lot more RPG elements in that movie than you would think.

There are really only 3 action scenes in the whole movie:

The First Encounter.
The Aliens invade Medical.
The Queen Fight.

Everything else was dialog, character interaction, character development, and environment interaction. Vasquez and Drake, Vasquez VERSUS Gordon, Ripley and Hicks, Ripley and Newt, Apone and the Squad, Ripley and Bishop, and much more. Hell, you could even argue that there was BASE development when the marines took over Medical and fortified the area.

If you count the novels and the rest of the ‘canon’ source material, there is a gold mine of information to work with, and J.E. Sawyer has really done his homework.

I know people are skeptical of movie licensing in games, but this isn’t the Aliens Movie Game. It is an RPG set in the Aliens Universe that happens to chronologically take place after Aliens and before Aliens 3.