If you're itching to get up-close and personal with a xenomorph, Sir Ridley Scott has the perfect VR game for you on the way.
Scott and the team at 20th Century Fox's Innovation Lab are putting the finishing touches on a VR experience set within the terrifying world of Alien: Covenant.
Described as a "dread-inducing journey" by developers, this game follows in the footsteps of the Fox Innovation Lab's previous movie tie-in The Martian VR Experience - also based on the Scott film.
Here's how the developers describe Alien: Covenant's interactive adventure: "Viewers will discover the true meaning of terror as they navigate through horrifying alien environments and a story where every decision could mean the difference between life and death."
Well, that sounds ominous - and oddly appropriate for a franchise based on chest-bursting, acid-spewing aliens whose one goal in life is kill, kill, kill.
Sir Ridley is producing this game, with direction from The Collection and Feast's David Karlak. There is no release date yet, but Alien: Covenant's gaming experience will be available as a paid title on leading VR platforms (via Variety).
Covenant doubles as Sir Ridley's sequel to Prometheus and his attempt to "resurrect" the franchise after the debacle that was Alien vs. Predator (and its even-worse sequel).
"No-one actually asked where [the aliens] came from in the three subsequent movies, which is kind of ridiculous," Sir Ridley recently told Digital Spy. "That's why good writers are good writers, because they'll ask a basic question like that and make that into a scenario.
"So we did Prometheus - that heaved it off the ground - and Covenant is a follow-through to Prometheus. So we now know who created this, and why, and the next one's a joining up of the storyline. It touches on mortality, immortality and the real question of who created us and why."
Alien: Covenant will be released on May 19 in the UK and the US.
