IGN, Sega and Gearbox Software recently hosted a preview community event for Aliens: Colonial Marines in which sections of the game’s SP and MP were showcased. The preview included mission one and four of the singleplayer campaign as well as several Team Deathmatch and Escape multiplayer matches. You can watch two plus hours of gameplay below or download it here:
Yep!
Used to bring it into college on my laptop, which could just about handle the graphics and have lots of fun between lulls in education.
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Always reminds me of when i'd run to one end of a map, spawn a couple PREDBOTS, then go to the other side and spawn some aliens, and then run back to the preds and watch everybody fight.
Ah... Chaos. It's a good thing in games.
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RULES.
I'd say minimal. Minimal chance of random encounters.
I get why it's been tone down (for mass market appeal) but it really was the best depiction of the lethality of acid blood.
I'm a rine player only since 99'.
It was a nice welcome.Nice MP but the SP was really mediocre.More like an action/scifi game than an action/horror one.I dont know if you played AvP classic when it was released but back then it felt natural to be unable to block,especially as a human...and it still manages to be scary (rine campaign).
I cant understand since there is no Pred(meele combat) in this game why they brought up the block faction again.Huggers are a joke now and the aliens not as scary/deadly as they should be.
I played AvP2 recently (out of nostalgia) rine campaign and the aliens were really badass and scary.Why? because whenever they showed up i had like 1 sec to kill them or they pounced right on my face and i was dead or dying.No hold the block and backwalk and shoot.
Oh snap!
Expect the full campaign in YT soon
That's when the multiplayer games were at their most fun... When it was just a handful of people and it turned into a hunting situation. The more people there were, the more it graduated into being a messy clusterf**k, like with most games.
Marine part was definitely too dark for you to keep being sent into it on your own, though. Needed at least one other with you, because you felt less like a Marine and more like just some random dude who'd managed to pick up a gun.
I guess what I was trying to say was while it was not an AWFUL game it was just a huge letdown. Hence the abortion comment.
This thread is now legendary in my mind.
LOL. I can't contain my true emotions.
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Embrace the joy the universe has given you! EMBRACE IT!!!
That was the best part in the whole game. The only time where the Xenos actually felt like they could rip me apart, I basically had my back against the wall and just fired from there, really intense moment, so good.
I just was ACM to replace the abortion that AVP 2010 was...
I died a shitload of times in the disco bit, running backwards firing madly at the shadows coming at me.
Mind you that could just be because I suck.
I disagree. The darkness just made it hard to see ANYTHING. It was like Rebellion didn't adjust the black levels or something. The demo for AVP 2010 to my recollection was not as dark. I felt it was an error on their part. I would have played in on PC for comparison but my laptop wouldn't handle it most likely.
This just confirms that I must have gotten a very defective copy of the game. In my playthroughs the Aliens were literally falling into single file lines in order to be killed...among other things that ruined the experience for me.
AVP 2010 was not an AWFUL game but it was not a GOOD one either. I think the game probably looked better and played better on PC. On Xbox it was not polished and it was VERY dark. I felt like the PC to console transition did not go over well.
I've only played a bit of the marine campiagn on AvP, but I dig it so far.
No, I care if the game is good. Not if it entertains me. In that case, AVP 2010 was a good game cause I found it entertaining. As average, mediocre, bad as the game was I logged many hours on the MP because it was mindless fun.
No one, I said I wasn't gonna cry.
Claims to be canon: Gearbox have been so incredibly loud about this - including on the most recent video - that making simple observations about the sheer number of things which contradict canon (after watching almost two entire missions through, no less) is a perfectly subject for legitimate for discussion. You don't want that to trouble you? Well, nobody's asking you to.
Bottom line is that Gearbox are the ones who keep bringing this up.
Gameplay/entertainment value: After seeing the afore-mentioned almost two entire mission's worth (and various instances reflected in the advertising), discussing how entertaining/atmospheric it'll be, is also very much a legitimate subject for discussion.
And let's face it, we wouldn't be fans if we weren't able to make fun of how our own fandom is being represented, like I did here, would we?
So long as criticism is constructive, there's nothing wrong with it. I've made observations on stuff I've found strange, but tried to qualify it with how it could've been done differently/better. I've also said that I hope the game will be enjoyable as an experience. But I'm not going to lie and say it looks any different from the 'Doom' formula or the 2010 AVP game, because it doesn't.
Just like how I still disagree with those who say the Alien or Predator are incapable of being scary/formidable on film, any more. The problem's never been over-exposure. It's that they haven't been portrayed right in ages.
By the way don't get me wrong guys, I'm really excited for this game, especially multiplayer, I'm just chatting away.
Especially when it's already built in to the game.
It's understandable why they did it, but I don't get why they couldn't have just given us the option to turn it on and off. They've been at this game for years already, it's hard to believe that they just ignored the people who were used to the first-person perspective. Then again, it shouldn't really be unbelievable to me since it wasn't until they saw that petition for playable female marines that they finally got off their asses to actually put that in the game.
I know i'm not buying Gearbox's BS. That's not a literal statement though. I mean what they say, not the game. I've got the game pre-ordered, and i'll buy it. It's an investment of time, as well as money, for me. So I can't just back out of it now.
Gearbox doesn't know when they're contradicting themselves.
Can't argue with that kind of Batsh*t crazy.
"NO NO NO NO NO NO"
*aborts pre-order*
I would want to see a reaction like that in person, or on video...it just sounds so hilarious.
Then again common sense is not so common.
"LOl this floor is wrong I'm abortin' da preorder!!!"
But...most of us here on this forum are both!
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I'm talking about gamers vs. movie nerds though.
I've said many things that are similar, somewhat similar, or any other variation thereof, but I can't tell you if that exact quote came from me.
Just look around here. I never said it was a pandemic of non-shit buying. Look at guys like WinterActual. I think he actually said "I'm not buying Gearbox's BS." Or maybe that was ShadowPred.
I had a quick glance around the Gearbox forums and there didn't seem to be a great deal of dissent.