Happy Alien Day, It’s Your Virtual Birthday in Alien: Covenant “In Utero”!
We were all born, so we can all relate to being birthed. But just in case you forgot, you can strap on your Oculus VR headset and be born again in ALIEN: COVENANT “In Utero” today!
Alien Day, a nod to planet LV-426 from the iconic ALIEN films, will include a variety of fan-focused festivities as the countdown continues for the release of ALIEN: COVENANT in theaters beginning May 10. Ridley Scott is directing that movie, but David Karlak is directing this VR horrorshow. Karlak had this to say:
“I feel very privileged to be directing Alien: Covenant “In Utero” and building upon the universe that Ridley has created. Tapping into both traditional storytelling and the emerging technology driving virtual reality, my aim has been to do something new and bold, which Ridley has supported from the beginning.”
Happy Birthday, Buddy! In this VR hellscape, you’ll emerge as a bloodthirsty Neomorph, hell-bent on evolving and murdering people! What fun to have a pre-established career path! You expel from your human carcass-womb as a mewling spawn, and you must explore your environment to survive/cause nightmares for both yourself and the VR characters of the game. We don’t have any details as to the contents of the game, so your victims could look computer-generated, or Ridley Scott could have real actors in a motion capture studio with a 3D camera so when you murder a man, you’re murdering a man that exists in your world, he was hired for you to virtually murder him and you have done your job, birthday boy.
The same VFX team that worked on the movie also worked on the VR experience of “In Utero”. MPC is a Technicolor company, and their VR division was immediately rolled into creating a VR game for ALIEN: COVENANT. They even used the same motion capture studios and technologies as the film.
But like, maybe when you emerge from your virtual womb, you can just say hi to all the folks and become a productive member of Ridley Scott society, right? You dream of a world where Neomorphs aren’t just murder-factories, they’re working in regular factories. Striving for that Intergalactic dream of steady work, finding your Neomorph gal, and then having children by shoving them down a host’s throat and chest-bursting out of them …
You know what? You’re right. You’re just a murder-factory.
SOURCE: PRESS RELEASE