Aliens: Colonial Marines and upping the female ante  12:00 PM on
07.05.2012  According to Gearbox Software, Aliens: Colonial
Marines will not feature any playable female characters in the
multiplayer, sticking instead to an all-male roster. So sayeth
senior producer Brian Burleson in a live chat a short time
back. This is not unusual for shooting games, but there's
something wrong about it for an Aliens game.   A petition has
been started to get women put into the multiplayer game, and to
be fair, the petition's gone nowhere. Even so, its heart is in
the right place and I support it. Before you roll your eyes and
think this is about gender equality and fairness, I'm actually
backing this as a dreadfully nitpicky Aliens nerd, not as
a woolly liberal (though there is probably some of that too).
While an all-male cast is not out of the ordinary for many FPS
multiplayer games, it is entirely out of character for a game
setting itself up as a canonical Aliens sequel. Female
characters are an integral part of the