Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 Announced for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S

Developers Cold Iron Studios and Daybreak Game Company person announced Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2, a sequel to the fashionable 2021 three-player, third-person PvE shooter. It's successful improvement for PC (on Steam and Epic Games Store), PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S – and it's owed retired this summer.

The astir evident caller alteration you'll spot successful the trailer supra is the summation of a 4th subordinate to the Xenomorph-blasting action. But there's plentifulness much to archer you astir – and amusement you – arsenic Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 is our IGN First editorial "cover story" for the period of May. That means we'll person gameplay, hands-on impressions, arsenic good arsenic accusation connected classes and enemies. All of that volition rotation retired 1 exclusive astatine a clip implicit the adjacent mates of weeks, opening adjacent week.

A fewer details for now, though: afloat cross-play is supported, and determination are caller Xenomorph types and improved subordinate classes, arsenic good arsenic the Specialist –a afloat customizable people that lets you premix and lucifer abilities from immoderate class. Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 volition besides motorboat with a Horde mode with dedicated Horde maps that propulsion ever-larger and much challenging waves of enemies – with amended and amended rewards to match.

If you ne'er tried the archetypal Aliens: Fireteam Elite, don't miss our reappraisal arsenic good arsenic the 9 Aliens Easter eggs we recovered hiding successful it.

Ryan McCaffrey is IGN's enforcement exertion of previews and big of some IGN's play Xbox show, Podcast Unlocked, arsenic good arsenic our semi-retired interrogation show, IGN Unfiltered. He's a North Jersey guy, truthful it's "Taylor ham," not "pork roll." Debate it with him connected Twitter astatine @DMC_Ryan.