Aliens: Colonial Marines Review Type Thing
As a huge fan of anything Alien or Predator, this game is not worth playing. Even if you just want the "atmosphere" of Aliens, you won't find it here. The graphics are horrible at the highest settings (roughly 2003-4 era graphics), the acting and story is worse than a MST3K movie, and the Aliens are a joke.
I tried, really tried, to give this a go since I got it for basically free and *supposedly* recent patches have improved it....
Don't be fooled, it is still a buggy crapfest. In just 40 minutes of playtime, I encountered five instances where aliens just got stuck and stood still as I blasted them. The aliens, when working, had two modes of attack - climb around the walls like a spaz and never attack me, and run up to me and stand in front of me for (what feels like an eternity) me to shoot in the face. To artificially add difficulty, the aliens basically instantly kill you if you do not have armor (even on the "Soldier" difficulty) and the M41A pulse rifle feels like an airsoft gun. Multiplayer doesn't exist since no one plays this stinker. The game has HORRIBLE lighting (kind of crucial for a horror game...), has terrible quality textures, and the particle system is laughable (big blobs of circular acid, no blood splats that I could see, just bad).
Any positives? The pulse rifle sound was ripped from the movies, and sounds authentic, even if it is way too quiet. The music is decent Aliens music. Michael Biehn got a paycheck, even if his role in the game and performance was...sad. The menu system is clean and kind of neat.
This game plays like an alpha of a novice developer's 2004 aliens game. After giving up on the game itself, and reading the plot on the web, it just confirms there is zero reason to ever buy, install, or play this game. If someone gifted it to you, return it. If you got it for free, pretend like it doesn't exist. Even AvP 2010 feels like a masterpiece compared to this. Don't waste your time on this game.
I tried, really tried, to give this a go since I got it for basically free and *supposedly* recent patches have improved it....Don't be fooled, it is still a buggy crapfest. In just 40 minutes of playtime, I encountered five instances where aliens just got stuck and stood still as I blasted them. The aliens, when working, had two modes of attack - climb around the walls like a spaz and never attack me, and run up to me and stand in front of me for (what feels like an eternity) me to shoot in the face. To artificially add difficulty, the aliens basically instantly kill you if you do not have armor (even on the "Soldier" difficulty) and the M41A pulse rifle feels like an airsoft gun. Multiplayer doesn't exist since no one plays this stinker. The game has HORRIBLE lighting (kind of crucial for a horror game...), has terrible quality textures, and the particle system is laughable (big blobs of circular acid, no blood splats that I could see, just bad).
Any positives? The pulse rifle sound was ripped from the movies, and sounds authentic, even if it is way too quiet. The music is decent Aliens music. Michael Biehn got a paycheck, even if his role in the game and performance was...sad. The menu system is clean and kind of neat.
This game plays like an alpha of a novice developer's 2004 aliens game. After giving up on the game itself, and reading the plot on the web, it just confirms there is zero reason to ever buy, install, or play this game. If someone gifted it to you, return it. If you got it for free, pretend like it doesn't exist. Even AvP 2010 feels like a masterpiece compared to this. Don't waste your time on this game.
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