Alien Planet
Many of you are likely to have been fortunate – or unfortunate – enough to watch the 2010 Predators movie. If you haven’t, it basically stars such silver-screen staples as Morpheus, Spiderman 3’s Venom, and the Oscar-winning nose of Adrien Brody trying to survive on an alien hostile world. They’re dropped onto it not knowing exactly why they are there or who everyone else is. This strange planet is infested not only with angry fauna, as the Predators of sci-fi fame come knocking to hunt these poor meatbags for sport.
Surely, this screenplay started out as a Far Cry fan-site suggestion anyway, right?
The franchise has always delighted in throwing players head-first into environments they may never have seen, forcing them to work out how they’re going to survive a hostile locale for more than 10 minutes. Why not do away with the Cassowary and Honey Badgers and replace them with… well, with whatever the design minds at Ubisoft can come up with. Go nuts. Add something with 16 limbs and four faces which eats dreams. There’s even opportunity to add aggressive plant life.
Over all of those possibilities, however, stands one true wonder. A genius move which could turn this from overactive fever-dream to workable idea; Steal even more from Predators and add a cast of hunting aliens. This might be a zoo like Slaughterhaus Five’s or a hunting reserve. Outposts could become visitor centers with roaming extra-terrestrial hunters trying to take down the greatest quarry of all – mankind.
Seriously just think about that for a minute. Why the hell hasn’t this already been done? A little too derivative perhaps. Oh well, onto the next batch of craziness.
