So here we are, after spending few hours on the Multiplayer and completed the SP campaign (Soldier) and doing some Coop (Ultimate Badass) here is what I say about this game:
SP
It's a joke but everyone knows it now.
Successor to aliens blablabla, blablabla, AI blabla, animations blablabla graphics blablabla.
The thing as a mapper that strikes me is the total lack of originality in the environment that feels repetitive and pretty generic to every FPS campaign aka COD syndrome.
The only good things that came up were the Sulaco Hanger with the dropship, some segment inside Hadley's Hope with medlab, Command and maybe just the shortest segment ever inside the Derelict.
It's a shame they did not focus on those three parts rather than spreading us among a thousands blank and empty corridor and room that absolutely does not catch the magic of ALIENS.
If there's only one thing that's probably positive to me it's the marine command.
It felt right handled, much better than the toy you have in AVP2010, the super fast godspeed guy in AVP99 and the Doom Like retarded marine you controlled in AVP2.
Well that's pretty much about it on the positive side of the campaign.
Raven felt like a threat when you were actually not fighting it but when you get on the power loader and engage fight I just felt like they could have give us that for the queen (sucks but better than the end they gave us) or simply make a cut scene.
The fight with the crusher was a joke to me. I'm not even sure that he hits me once.
Overall, Human Corp were much deadlier than Aliens.
Also, I'm old school and there are things I used to love in AVP2 like:
-Ladder
-Vents
-Water for swimming. (you could halfway say it's there in A:CM, but nah, How much I would give to have a fight with Aliens underwater knowing I can't use all my weapons because some cannot fire underwater.
-More hackable / torchable things that are not "just" doors and serves a purpose.
MP
-MAP:
What's the point of making an Alien game directly inspired by ALIENS if it is to give us NO MAPS at launch that are from the movie? Gearbox? Is this a joke? How much DLC did you planned to give us something that can pretend to mimic ALIENS? And even if you didn't want to include them, that's a so few amount of map that it get very quickly boring especially when they don't offer much with having mostly wide open environment. Maybe there are a few spot interesting in each but overall it's weak and environment is wrongly balanced.
-Customization:
LAWLZ
-Mechanic:
[1] What's the point to put Alien third person if it is to make it WORSE than any other AVP games ever managed? Even the horrible AVP99 transition between edges didn't felt that bad. I feel like being constantly disorientated and sometimes my character is moving while I'm not even touching the keyboard when performing wallwalk. Joke?
[2] I feel like that most people are going to be pissed off in the coming weeks between Marine campers and Alien Spliter that camps too.
[3] Why are aliens dying when very very low on health but marine doesn't? Does that makes sense to any of you? I'm pretty sure that between Alien & Human regeneration, Alien is far ahead of us. But nah, to gearbox, Aliens are just BUGS and MUST DIE COS IT'S COOL!
[4] The fact you can't remain in a team as you want is annoying. I wish so much I could spend two matches as Alien instead of having to constantly change every 5 minutes (TDM).
[5] Escape was cool at the beginning but it's kinda like Coop campaign. Aliens aren't a real threat even if handled by player thanks to the ultra god armor you have.
[6] Spawn points are kind of glitchy.
[7] Glitch / bugs / problems everywhere in the MP constantly. Sound problem, animation problem, teleport problem, player exploiting game environment already.
-Network:
As many people pointed out, it's horrible.
No dedicated server doesn't make things easy.
No ability to have host migration will bring hate.
No ability to have at least a server list to choose what you want and drop into a game you're seeking rather than using this finder is not good.
No ability to allow the switch of an Host Pissed me out when I dropped into a server with everyone having above 500 per ping.
