A follow-up to 2010’s Aliens vs. Predator isn’t currently in the pipeline, SEGA’s European CEO Mike Hayes has revealed.
Speaking with Eurogamer in light of yesterday’s unveiling of Creative Assembly’s new Alien project, Hayes said he believes there’s “a lot more” to explore in the franchise before considering a sequel.
“[AVP] was so successful that naturally you would think you want to do a sequel,” he said. “But we already had Aliens: Colonial Marines in the pipeline at Gearbox.”
“The Aliens universe is so interesting that there are different things that we can do before we go back to an idea of sequelisation,” added Hayes.
“There’s a lot more we can do first before we would consider doing a sequel on AVP.”
Aliens vs. Predator released for PlayStation 3, PC and Xbox 360 back in February last year, and was met with a luke warm reception from critics.
Despite this, the game proved a considerable success at retail, topping the UK All Format Charts upon release and supplanting BioShock 2 as the then fastest-selling game of 2010.