If this is true, my hopes are up. Gearbox seems to work with others' licenses pretty well, what with Opposing Force kicking large amounts of ass, and their upcoming Alien games looking pretty solid.

What's said is that the game will most likely be pirated to hell when it comes out. Honestly, I was always curious with it as time has gone by, because through the Quake 2/Halo years, it seemed like a chance that we could go back to fun, kill-em-up FPS's, After hearing how much of a development hell it was, and now that it's going to be dumped on Gearbox (granted, they're probably my favorite dev team), I just don't have hope for it. I've got my eyes on Bulletstorm.

Not too worried about regen, Gearbox has always been pretty cool with their health systems. Brothers in Arms 3 had a neat take on the auto-regen health system by basing it around the gameplay. In it, you technically were killed by 1 bullet, but the screen would get red to a rising degree until that one bullet finally hit you. How fast you died depended on variables such as how much cover you had, how suppressed your enemies were, and what kind of weapons the enemy had and how far away they were. Like I've said, Gearbox has always impressed me by taking what was already established and merging it nicely with their own game and world. I still think Opposing Force's single player was more fun that Half Life's (and Half Life 1 was awesome).