If i gave this game 10/10 and minus a point for unpolished mood elements, I would say this:
minus 1 point for your customizable characters not having enough verbage or a chat wheel (the emotes are cool but to give it a percentage of usage per game i would not even think about doing it that often because it interferes with the pace and you rarely see them doing it you're running) - I do think that chat wheels can get spammy and detract from the mood too.
minus 1 point for Lost Potential in setting the mood per mission in each campaign- i would have liked to see a slightly more dramatic opening to each campaign or per mission in each campaign to give it some personality.
But the Hidden Potential for them to add creative updates are remarkably huge considering that most devs(including this one) for online games get frequent content updates.
So thats a +3 points in my book.
By adding the Empty Husks, and other pathegens I feel like they are ready and willing to add new original content in line with the newer films. I'm all for this!
I WANT To see a horrific insergence of engineers.
I WANT to see more of the planet's details.
I WANT to believe there are other planets or moons to be alluded to and possibliy given a mission on to find juggernauts either infested or missions to explore the terrain and ships.
That said, I also feel there NEEDS to be some homage to what HRGiger's work represents and some elements that build this concept. Not saying they should just add a painting inspired by Giger's work, but add an element to the story designed to allude to his concepts. I want people to still figure out what the word "Necronomicon" means. I want people to scratch their heads on what that means in the Ridley-verse.
In addition:
I WANT to see the eggs to be transparent as they were in the original film. They also explode ingame like they are made out of paper. I want to see some REAL evolution of the eggs to be a very very odd biological thing.Yeah i know, we can't make them deform where we shoot it, so maybe make a really messy organic mess that looks like aloe mixed with chicken meat. Right now, its been exploding the same way its been since 1999 AVP!!!!
I WANT to visit this Pala Station, the research facility on the planet surface of
LV-895.It's the one last place that has been the suspect of alien activity on the planet as this site has indicated :
https://avp.fandom.com/wiki/Pala_Station.
Otherwise, this game is f**king perfect and visually polished. The mix of aliens is palatable. They are sometimes easy and at time difficult.
Their ragdoll physics is at times funny. Not all the time. But sometimes there are moments that make me chuckle. I think that rare moment is enough (you dont need it like the way it is in RDR2 or PHG). Due to the serious tone of the game it doesn't need those funny rag doll moments at all. I don't think we will be seeing a montage of footage showing rag doll aliens either. They are just too rare as apposed to the latter.
Im also not opposed to the lack of lip sync in the story based elements either like some video reviews have pointed out. To me they made it a point not to include it. That only means that -globabally, it was unnessary- or that since there is text on the screen it made it a moot point. It doesn't bother me because I read the text. In games like Horizon Zero Dawn (which the camera literally is identically in the interaction scenes), they went out of their way to render all it. Im guessing they used an algorithm to match text to phonemes. So here, there was none of it which means they could just easily add that at anytime in the future and remove the text (its just preference at this point).