{"id":9223,"date":"2026-05-12T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/?p=9223"},"modified":"2026-05-12T20:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T17:26:08","slug":"aliens-fireteam-elite-2-meet-the-xenomorphs-and-other-enemies-youll-be-up-against-ign-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/2026\/05\/12\/aliens-fireteam-elite-2-meet-the-xenomorphs-and-other-enemies-youll-be-up-against-ign-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 \u2013 Meet the Xenomorphs and Other Enemies You&#8217;ll Be Up Against | IGN First"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Last week, we exclusively revealed Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2, and today we&#8217;d like to introduce you to nine enemy types \u2013 and no, they&#8217;re not all Xenomorphs \u2013 who will look to have you screaming &#8220;Game over, man!&#8221; as you fight together with up to three friends in the upcoming four-player PvE third-person shooter due out this summer for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S. Some you&#8217;ll remember from the first game, and some are new. And the developers wanted us to make it clear that <strong>there are more enemy types you&#8217;ll face than just these nine.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">We&#8217;re spotlighting seven of the Xenomorph alien types you&#8217;ll run into in Fireteam Elite in the gallery below, plus two different android foes (though one of them has more than two legs&#8230;). Say hello to the, in alphabetical order: Crusher, Drone, Exploder, Harbinger, Siren, Striker, and Warden \u2013 as well as the robotic Bulwark and the latest iteration of the Synths.<\/p>\n<p><span data-cy=\"slideshow-view-trigger\"><\/p>\n<div data-cy=\"slideshow-preview\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 slideshow-preview\">\n<h3 class=\"title5 jsx-62124236 jsx-1085005187\" data-cy=\"slideshow-preview-title\">Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 \u2013 Meet (Some of) the Enemies<\/h3>\n<div data-cy=\"slideshow-images-container\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 images-container\"><button type=\"button\" data-cy=\"hero-image\" aria-label=\"Open Slideshow\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 hero-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"CRUSHER \nXenofauna \u00b7 Armored Runner Variant \n*RETURNING FROM AFE1 \nRole: Charging Disruptor \nThreat Level: High \nFIELD ANALYSIS: A large, armored runner variant that leads with its plated skull. The Crusher uses its carapace to bash and immobilize players, and its frontal armor makes head-on engagements a losing proposition. Coordinated flanking is the only reliable way to deal with one. \nOBSERVED TRAITS:\n\u25b8 Heavy armored skull carapace fronting the body\n\u25b8 Bashes and immobilizes players on impact\n\u25b8 Frontal armor makes head-on engagements ineffective\n\u25b8 Counterplay: one player distracts while a teammate flanks\" class=\"progressive-image jsx-2021719738 image aspect-ratio aspect-ratio-16-9 jsx-2605834259 jsx-2338608387 hover-opacity\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/aliens-fireteam-elite-2-meet-the-xenomorphs-and-other-enemies-youll-be-up-against-ign-first.gif\" data-cy=\"progressive-image\"><span class=\"button-text jsx-729543028 button button--primary jsx-3381835873 jsx-4266531355 row-pagination-button next contained centered round large\" data-cy=\"paginate next\" title=\"Open Slideshow\"><span class=\"ign-icon right-chevron jsx-2750866048 jsx-2919720488\" role=\"presentation\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-cy=\"right-chevron\"><\/span><\/span><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">We&#8217;ll have more exclusives to share on Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 as part of our IGN First &#8220;cover story&#8221; editorial initiative for the month of May, including full-mission gameplay coming soon! So keep checking back all May long on IGN!<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\"><em>Ryan McCaffrey is IGN&#8217;s executive editor of previews and host of both IGN&#8217;s weekly Xbox show, <\/em>Podcast Unlocked<em>, as well as our semi-retired interview show, <\/em>IGN Unfiltered<em>. He&#8217;s a North Jersey guy, so it&#8217;s &#8220;Taylor ham,&#8221; not &#8220;pork roll.&#8221; Debate it with him on Twitter at <\/em>@DMC_Ryan<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/aliens-fireteam-elite-2-meet-the-xenomorphs-and-other-enemies-youll-be-up-against-ign-first.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/aliens-fireteam-elite-2-meet-the-xenomorphs-and-other-enemies-youll-be-up-against-ign-first.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/aliens-fireteam-elite-2-meet-the-xenomorphs-and-other-enemies-youll-be-up-against-ign-first.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/aliens-fireteam-elite-2-meet-the-xenomorphs-and-other-enemies-youll-be-up-against-ign-first.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[50],"class_list":["post-9223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-49","tag-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9225,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9223\/revisions\/9225"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}