Thread: Aliens Colonial Marines falls flat on its face.

Originally Posted by SovietDooM

Oh dear Adretheon, you didn't BUY this after everything I've been saying did you?

No.

The only redeeming factor in my eyes was the sound, which was basically ripped straight from the movie.

The sound and music was the best part of the game. I was very pleased with it. The composer really busted his ass to not just copy the old scores from the film but to use them a base to leap from.

You know what would have been great? Remove fucking Deathmatch mode. Make your level design more like Natural Selection - claustrophobic, dark, creepy, and with many options for the more nimble and maneuverable alien team. Make the alien playstyle and control scheme unique, fundamentally different from the Marines - for example, an emphasis on fast, constant movement and/or stealth to keep from being instantly cut down by the powerful ranged weapons of the Marines, to get within range to one-hit-kill a Marine with a melee attack. Give them instant respawn so it feels like the Marines are really being attacked by a horde. For the Marines, seriously emphasize cooperative teamplay and objective-based gameplay - anyone remember Alien Swarm? A pity they never did anything beyond that first level, because it was fun having to run around a map with a specialized, customizable squad of human players defending against waves of endless weak enemies while completing specific objectives.

When you play multiplayer, you can feel that they tried this and a few atempts hit their mark but the rest feel through. You do need the different aliens for different things. Spitters in the opening of escape to cut down armor, lurckers to slow the group when someone is down. It can feel like Aliens take to long to kill marines in deathmatch but they do have have few attacks you can kill with one hit. Yet the managed to not pull an AVP 3 where you just get close and slame E the entire time. I like the play the lurcker class be cause you can strike from a distance, put a marine on his ass, one two three dead. Get close to someone not looking hit V and a orange target appears for a split second, line it up, and head bit, drop the body. I'm waiting to unlock a dodge upgrade where you body gets down on the ground and you look dead, but you can strike when a marine gets close.

So some hits, but alot of misses, yea the Aliens are very slow and wall climbing is a cluster fuck. Marines only survive when they hold each other's dicks. Alone, they are screwed.

So you think people would work together but there's one problem. THERE'S NO FUNCTIONAL VOIP!!!

Voip is in the game, but it doesn't work. I* **ts o**s a*l th* ti** s* *ou *o*'t *now wh*t pe**pl* *r* sa*n*g

Adretheonm, I'll run throuhg Co-op with you, on ultimate badass theres fun to be had. But I'm away this weekend. So keep and eye out durin the week and we will get on TS.

Ranger, I like you and I don't specifically wish trouble on your friends, but I hope to science SEGA sues the piss out of Gearbox. They can sue the shit out of them because they put that in a box and called it ACM. Or maybe it was piss, the project was code name "Pecan" "Pee-ina-Can" And if anyone needs tossed out into the cold at Gearbox, its Pitchford. Death is not wished upon him, but he needs to be shamed, and cast out.

Originally Posted by SovietDooM

. Or maybe it was piss, the project was code name "Pecan" "Pee-ina-Can"

lol....that's a bit of a stretch. It would make more sense to not call the game "Piss" or "Pee-ina-Can"...but, call it a "Pee Can"

Oh yeah something I forgot to add in my little rant. I've gotten burned before with pre-ordering games. The last one I did pre-order IIRC was Civilization V, which I fucking hated. CivIV is still a vastly superior game. So now - adding in the fact that I'm a poor college student - I'm very, very cautious about the games I buy.

Originally Posted by SovietDooM

Oh dear Adretheon, you didn't BUY this after everything I've been saying did you?

lol no. I'm reviewing it for the site.

Originally Posted by Wraith

Oh yeah something I forgot to add in my little rant. I've gotten burned before with pre-ordering games. The last one I did pre-order IIRC was Civilization V, which I fucking hated. CivIV is still a vastly superior game. So now - adding in the fact that I'm a poor college student - I'm very, very cautious about the games I buy.

Yea I'm gunna stop pre-ordering, the last 3-4 I've gotten sucked major ass.

I will pre-order Skyrim plug ins and that is all.

Let me know if you need help reviewing the co op part.

And make sure you hit on the good points in the game. I'll be checking up on you.