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Reviews:

Positive:

• IT News Africa (http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.itnewsafrica.com/2013/02/review-aliens-colonial-marines/) 7.9/10
• EGM (http://www.egmnow.com/articles/reviews/egm-review-aliens-colonial-marines/) 9/10
• Forbes 8/10 (http://www.forbes.com/sites/carolpinchefsky/2013/02/12/review-aliens-colonial-marines/)
• Guardian 4/5 (http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gamesblog/2013/feb/12/alien-colonial-marines-game-review)

Mixed:

• HouseOfGeekery (http://houseofgeekery.com/2013/02/11/review-aliens-colonial-marines/) 6/10
• PS3Gen (http://translate.google.fr/translate?hl=fr&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ps3gen.fr%2Ftest-review-aliens-colonial-marines-gearbox-software-sega-alien-article-31114-5.html) 5/10
• Bonusweb 6.5/10 (http://translate.google.es/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=es&ie=UTF-8&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fbonusweb.idnes.cz%2Faliens-colonial-marines-recenze-dnx-%2FRecenze.aspx%3Fc%3DA130211_142945_bw-pc-recenze_anb)
• Bloody Disgusting 3.5/5 (http://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3218425/aliens-colonial-marines-review-stay-frosty-and-alert/)
• Digitalgaudium 5/10 (http://digitalgaudium.com/?p=11253)
• Nowgamer 5/10 (http://www.nowgamer.com/xbox-360/xbox360-reviews/1799776/aliens_colonial_marines_review.html)


• escapistmagazine 3/5 (http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/editorials/reviews/10187-Aliens-Colonial-Marines-Review-Game-Over-Man/)


• Venturebeat 6/10 (http://venturebeat.com/2013/02/12/aliens-colonial-marines-review/)


• CVG 6.2/10 (http://www.computerandvideogames.com/390380/reviews/aliens-colonial-marines-review-or-how-to-waste-a-great-license-review/)


• Zombiegamer 3/6 (http://zombiegamer.co.za/aliens-colonial-marines-zombiegamer-review)


• Gametrailers 5.9/10 (http://www.gametrailers.com/reviews/oz9pto/aliens--colonial-marines-review3)


• Heavy 7/10 (http://www.heavy.com/games/2013/02/aliens-colonial-marines-review-shooter-game-fps)


• Gamerzines 5.8/10 (http://www.gamerzines.com/playstation/aliens-colonial-marines-review.html)
• Thesixthaxis 5/10 (http://www.thesixthaxis.com/2013/02/12/aliens-colonial-marines-review-ps3-xbox-360-pc/)
• OXM 6/10 (http://www.oxm.co.uk/49644/reviews/alien-colonial-marines-review/)
• OPM 6/10 (http://www.officialplaystationmagazine.co.uk/2013/02/12/aliens-colonial-marines-ps3-gameplay-video-review-the-first-chapter/)
• Gamesradar 2.5/5 (http://www.gamesradar.com/aliens-colonial-marines-review/)
• IGN 5/10 (PC) (http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/02/12/aliens-colonial-marines-pc-review)
• Edge 5/10 (http://www.edge-online.com/review/aliens-colonial-marines-review/)
• Insidegamingdaily 5/10 (http://www.insidegamingdaily.com/2013/02/12/45517//)

Negative:

• Games TM 4/10 (http://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/index.php?topic=47175.msg1610735#msg1610735)
• Gamespy 2/5 (http://uk.pc.gamespy.com/pc/sega-alien-shooter/1227396p1.html)
• Polygon 3/10 (http://www.polygon.com/game/aliens-colonial-marines/3159)
• Eurogamer 3/10 (http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-02-12-aliens-colonial-marines-review)
• Gamespot 4.5/10 (http://www.gamespot.com/aliens-colonial-marines/reviews/aliens-colonial-marines-review-6403640/)
• IGN 4.5/10 (Consoles) (http://uk.ign.com/articles/2013/02/12/aliens-colonial-marines-360ps3-review)
• Kotaku (http://kotaku.com/5983463/aliens-colonial-marines-the-kotaku-review)
• Destructoid 2.5/10 (http://www.destructoid.com/review-aliens-colonial-marines-244276.phtml)
• PC Gamer 4.8/10 (http://www.pcgamer.com/review/aliens-colonial-marines-review/)
• PCworld 1/5 (http://www.pcworld.com/article/2027860/review-aliens-colonial-marines-is-a-bad-movie-reference.html)
• El33tonline 2/5 (http://www.el33tonline.com/past_article/2013/2/12/aliens_colonial_marines_review/)
• Metro 4/10 (http://metro.co.uk/2013/02/12/aliens-colonial-marines-review-this-time-its-war-3417232/)
• Gameinformer 4/10 (http://www.gameinformer.com/games/aliens_colonial_marines/b/xbox360/archive/2013/02/12/aliens-colonial-marines-review.aspx)
• Videogamer 3/10 (http://www.videogamer.com/reviews/aliens_colonial_marines_review.html)
• Joystiq 1/5 (http://www.joystiq.com/2013/02/12/aliens-colonial-marines-review/)
• Digitalspy 2/5 (http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/gaming/review/a458069/aliens-colonial-marines-review-ps3-a-generic-alien-killfest.html)
• Atomicgamer 4/10 (http://www.atomicgamer.com/articles/1480/aliens-colonial-marines-review)

No score:

• Gamesasylum (http://www.gamesasylum.com/2013/02/11/aliens-colonial-marines-review/)
• VG247 (http://www.vg247.com/2013/02/12/aliens-colonial-marines-buggy-hunt/)
• Arstechnica (http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/02/aliens-colonial-marines-review-xenophobia/)
• Penny Arcade (http://penny-arcade.com/report/editorial-article/aliens-colonial-marines-is-an-unfinished-ugly-mess)
• Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/video-games/video-game-reviews/9864448/Aliens-Colonial-Marines-review.html)
• MTV (http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2013/02/12/aliens-colonial-marines-review/)
• Rockpapershotgun (http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/02/12/wot-i-think-aliens-colonial-marines-single-player/)

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Interviews:

• Complex Interviews Gearbox (http://www.complex.com/video-games/2013/02/interview-aliens-colonial-marines-design-director-on-the-legacy-prometheus-and-making-a-modern-game/)
• SFX Interviews Syd Mead (http://www.sfx.co.uk/2013/02/11/aliens-colonial-marines-syd-mead-interview//)

I didn't see this posted anywhere, but Games.TM Magazine gave it a 4/10, saying:

- "Many of Colonial Marines' flaws could have been excusable back in the early days of the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, but now, when every title is polished to excruciating level of quality, it just doesn't cut it."
- "Graphically, it's one of the worst we've seen grace consoles in years. It certainly may have been acceptable in 2006, when the game was first conceived, but now it just looks embarrasing up against other titles coming out in the Q1 release window."
- "Colonial Marines does at time play with expanding the lore in a meaningful way but skirts over it almost immediately."
- "Even some returning voice actors voicing their digital characters can't save the train wreck of a narrative, and it certainly doesn't help to immerse you in the world when the lip-sincing doesn't even match up."
- "Without Cameron's guiding hand, the story never amounts to anything more than a vehicle to drive players from one disappointing corridor to the next."

http://www.gamenguide.com/articles/5163/20130211/first-reviews-aliens-colonial-marines-start-come.htm (http://www.gamenguide.com/articles/5163/20130211/first-reviews-aliens-colonial-marines-start-come.htm)

Quote from: Samus007 on Feb 11, 2013, 06:33:53 PM
I didn't see this posted anywhere, but Games.TM Magazine gave it a 4/10, saying:

- "Many of Colonial Marines' flaws could have been excusable back in the early days of the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, but now, when every title is polished to excruciating level of quality, it just doesn't cut it."
- "Graphically, it's one of the worst we've seen grace consoles in years. It certainly may have been acceptable in 2006, when the game was first conceived, but now it just looks embarrasing up against other titles coming out in the Q1 release window."
- "Colonial Marines does at time play with expanding the lore in a meaningful way but skirts over it almost immediately."
- "Even some returning voice actors voicing their digital characters can't save the train wreck of a narrative, and it certainly doesn't help to immerse you in the world when the lip-sincing doesn't even match up."
- "Without Cameron's guiding hand, the story never amounts to anything more than a vehicle to drive players from one disappointing corridor to the next."

http://www.gamenguide.com/articles/5163/20130211/first-reviews-aliens-colonial-marines-start-come.htm (http://www.gamenguide.com/articles/5163/20130211/first-reviews-aliens-colonial-marines-start-come.htm)

That's just brutal. Brutally honest admittedly.

Game TM Scans:

Quote from: ikarop on Feb 11, 2013, 06:46:19 PM
Game TM Scans:

(https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimageshack.us%2Fa%2Fimg716%2F4981%2Faliens0001.th.jpg&hash=9c42281b927e56977e7bff74fcabb3b5bdefaa1e) (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/716/aliens0001.jpg/)(https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimageshack.us%2Fa%2Fimg12%2F3374%2Faliens0002.th.jpg&hash=46059803e714c6b27b51214ebe1a6633c2e06a7d) (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/12/aliens0002.jpg/)(https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimageshack.us%2Fa%2Fimg404%2F4717%2Faliens0003.th.jpg&hash=2fdb3b8060d9e3515a449dbc4354b254511e91ca) (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/404/aliens0003.jpg/)(https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimageshack.us%2Fa%2Fimg802%2F382%2Faliens0004.th.jpg&hash=1167018b6bf4d4da2aca88191c9f0ebada60cdd5) (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/802/aliens0004.jpg/)

Yeah, reading that was pretty depressing.  :-\

http://www.sfx.co.uk/2013/02/11/aliens-colonial-marines-syd-mead-interview/ (http://www.sfx.co.uk/2013/02/11/aliens-colonial-marines-syd-mead-interview/)

(https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.sfx.co.uk%2Ffiles%2F2013%2F02%2FAliens-Colonial-Marines-Queen-Lair.jpg&hash=5ba76c6bd044fa1738de11132912de9c0d220fed)
(https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.sfx.co.uk%2Ffiles%2F2013%2F02%2FAliens-Colonial-Marines-Computers.jpg&hash=cf444528518ee84fccb37fdf458af35f64c3ffaa)
(https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.sfx.co.uk%2Ffiles%2F2013%2F02%2FAliens-Colonial-Marines-Bridge.jpg&hash=6f8e0d18b552d8f0ddb608eb223426b6566b799c)
(https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.sfx.co.uk%2Ffiles%2F2013%2F02%2FAliens-Colonial-Marines-Intro-concept.jpg&hash=df205af27245cd04fe0f689776200e7cdd51b6bd)

I never really thought that graphics were what made a game special. Do they think 'Metal Gear 4' was a good game just because it looked pretty? As for the story, I honestly wasn't expecting all that much and it's probably better than either AVP film or Resurrection at the very least. Overall, I think people are being a little nitpicky but hey it's an opinion and they have theirs and I have mine.

That averages out as a 5.7 by my maths, right?

Do we have the score of AvP2010 that those magazines ect gave to it? So we compare with ACM.

Quote from: Jonesy23 on Feb 11, 2013, 07:06:39 PM
As for the story, I honestly wasn't expecting all that much and it's probably better than either AVP film or Resurrection at the very least.

I'm fairly annoyed that a group of people who pouted about how big fans they were of the series couldn't create a story that didn't feel so generic and quickly pulled together.

Quote from: SPECIAL FORCES on Feb 11, 2013, 07:29:15 PM
Do we have the score of AvP2010 that those magazines ect gave to it? So we compare with ACM.

PS3Gen gave AvP a 7/10. Haven't checked the rest.

You can check here for future ones: http://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/index.php?topic=27037.0 (http://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/index.php?topic=27037.0)

No doubt a whole bunch of people are going to totally ignore negative reviews, only take the positive from mixed reviews and praise the positive reviews, completely ignoring the games faults or making excuses for them, or simply saying ''never cared about graphics, story, AI, never thought it'd be best game ever, a 6 out of 10 game sounds good to me''. Oh the denial.
The averge review score so far is 5.7 out of 10

Quote from: Bjørn Half-hand on Feb 11, 2013, 07:40:36 PM
No doubt a whole bunch of people are going to totally ignore negative reviews, only take the positive from mixed reviews and praise the positive reviews, completely ignoring the games faults or making excuses for them, or simply saying ''never cared about graphics, story, AI, never thought it'd be best game ever, a 6 out of 10 game sounds good to me''. Oh the denial.

Criticise the game on YouTube and you'll find you're inbox full of insults from people who won't accept it's not just the graphics people are annoyed with.

Quote from: Syrath101 on Feb 11, 2013, 07:43:59 PM

Quote from: Bjørn Half-hand on Feb 11, 2013, 07:40:36 PM
No doubt a whole bunch of people are going to totally ignore negative reviews, only take the positive from mixed reviews and praise the positive reviews, completely ignoring the games faults or making excuses for them, or simply saying ''never cared about graphics, story, AI, never thought it'd be best game ever, a 6 out of 10 game sounds good to me''. Oh the denial.

Criticise the game on YouTube and you'll find you're inbox full of insults from people who won't accept it's not just the graphics people are annoyed with.

It's a very average shooter with a bugs-a-gogo and Aliens tagged on. Sure it has limited fun but I just don't understand why some people are being so defensive about this.

Well I figured since the game is coming out tomorrow that someone would have an official video review up by now. Anyways this is what I found.  :laugh:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dPF8jpItCs#ws (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dPF8jpItCs#ws)

'Cause they wanted to believe it might be good, and it's hard to let that go. When SO MUCH of the Alien franchise post 1986 had been disappointing it can be hard to hear you heart is going to be broken again. Just at a guess, like.

Not because we wanted to believe it might be good, but because it f**king damn well should be great! One of the best sci fi horror/action franchises in the history of cinema, and we can't get a decent game for it in nearly 12 years or a decent film for it in the best part of 20 years now?

Seriously, this should be a f**king goldmine of awesome gaming, it's a tragedy that it isn't.

Quote from: ikarop on Feb 11, 2013, 07:36:22 PM

Quote from: SPECIAL FORCES on Feb 11, 2013, 07:29:15 PM
Do we have the score of AvP2010 that those magazines ect gave to it? So we compare with ACM.

PS3Gen gave AvP a 7/10. Haven't checked the rest.

You can check here for future ones: http://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/index.php?topic=27037.0 (http://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/index.php?topic=27037.0)

Thank you.

So PS3Gen gave AVP2010 7/10 and A:CM 5/10

Quote from: Bjørn Half-hand on Feb 11, 2013, 08:11:18 PM
So PS3Gen gave AVP2010 7/10 and A:CM 5/10

Can't find the other sites who have reviewd A:CM so far on the AVP10 list.

Quote from: N3ONPORCUPINE on Feb 11, 2013, 07:54:21 PM
Well I figured since the game is coming out tomorrow that someone would have an official video review up by now. Anyways this is what I found.  :laugh:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dPF8jpItCs#ws (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dPF8jpItCs#ws)

I laughed so hard when they showed the Wii U footage!!! Hope they like AVP2!!!

Quote from: Elicas on Feb 11, 2013, 08:01:29 PM
Not because we wanted to believe it might be good, but because it f**king damn well should be great! One of the best sci fi horror/action franchises in the history of cinema, and we can't get a decent game for it in nearly 12 years or a decent film for it in the best part of 20 years now?

Seriously, this should be a f**king goldmine of awesome gaming, it's a tragedy that it isn't.

Agreed.

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Just saw this on IGN: "Aliens: Colonial Marines hits stores tomorrow. Look out for IGN's review at 1:00 a.m. Pacific"

First Prometheus now this... what did we do to deserve this? >:(

I really wanted this to be good but after reading reviews, watching Youtube reviews and walkthroughs and hearing their opinions I have to admit the truth of it.

It's two 7's against a 5 and a 4 so far. I'd say that sounds like a good count so far. I always remain positive until I actually have it in my hands. Sure, it's lead to games like Raccoon City being in my possession but hey you only know if you like something if you try it first.

Quote from: Jonesy23 on Feb 11, 2013, 09:29:49 PM
It's two 7's against a 5 and a 4 so far. I'd say that sounds like a good count so far. I always remain positive until I actually have it in my hands. Sure, it's lead to games like Raccoon City being in my possession but hey you only know if you like something if you try it first.

Ikarops main post shows a four, five, six and a seven, with one bad review with no score. Not two sevens. That's far from a good count.

I've honestly seen two or three sevens not posted on this site. I don't mean to make a big argument out of it, I'm just saying what I saw is all.

Quote from: Bjørn Half-hand on Feb 11, 2013, 07:40:36 PM
No doubt a whole bunch of people are going to totally ignore negative reviews, only take the positive from mixed reviews and praise the positive reviews, completely ignoring the games faults or making excuses for them, or simply saying ''never cared about graphics, story, AI, never thought it'd be best game ever, a 6 out of 10 game sounds good to me''. Oh the denial.
The averge review score so far is 5.7 out of 10

It's not denial. I never base AI in my score tally. I don't think the AI in Halo 4 is overly great at time. It's not stellar in ACIII either. Same with graphics. I am more about story, gameplay (SP and MP), replay value, sound, etc.

I don't think a lot of people are in denial, I think they're just like me in wanting to have a go at it for themselves before they critique it. I've really never cared about graphics though, but I will admit the story is spotty in a lot of places and the game has some bugs that will likely be fixed overtime.

Quote from: PRI. HUDSON on Feb 11, 2013, 09:41:08 PM

Quote from: Bjørn Half-hand on Feb 11, 2013, 07:40:36 PM
No doubt a whole bunch of people are going to totally ignore negative reviews, only take the positive from mixed reviews and praise the positive reviews, completely ignoring the games faults or making excuses for them, or simply saying ''never cared about graphics, story, AI, never thought it'd be best game ever, a 6 out of 10 game sounds good to me''. Oh the denial.
The averge review score so far is 5.7 out of 10

It's not denial. I never base AI in my score tally. I don't think the AI in Halo 4 is overly great at time. It's not stellar in ACIII either. Same with graphics. I am more about story, gameplay (SP and MP), replay value, sound, etc.

You should always base AI in your score, it's the thing that makes the game re-playable. It doesn't matter how many shinies they put in a game, how good the gameplay is or whether the story could have been a novel best seller, if the AI you're up against is shit the whole thing falls down.

It's like playing an RTS that only understands tank rushes, or playing a 4x game where the AI doesn't research or explore but only builds fleets, or playing the latest Madden where your opposition only knows one play, or playing Mortal Kombat and the AI only knows three move combos. Games flop without a good AI to run up against (unless of course they are dedicated MP only games), this game could have so many of it's bad points forgiven if it had given you authentic Aliens, moving in sneaky, smart and unbuggy ways.

Enemy AI really is important. It's the reason I had such an issue with games like Crysis 2 and Black Ops 2 mostly because the AI in those games were random. One moment the enemies will let you walk right up to them and put a bullet in their head, but then you get enemies that not only do what they're supposed to, but they do it too well and become annoying. It seems like A:CM is heading in this direction, but I can't be sure.

Quote from: Elicas on Feb 11, 2013, 10:15:51 PM
It's like playing an RTS that only understands tank rushes, or playing a 4x game where the AI doesn't research or explore but only builds fleets, or playing the latest Madden where your opposition only knows one play, or playing Mortal Kombat and the AI only knows three move combos. Games flop without a good AI to run up against (unless of course they are dedicated MP only games), this game could have so many of it's bad points forgiven if it had given you authentic Aliens, moving in sneaky, smart and unbuggy ways.

I could even forgive the cannon fodder nature of the aliens. If their AI didn't VISIBLY bug out constantly.

Quote from: Elicas on Feb 11, 2013, 10:15:51 PM

Quote from: PRI. HUDSON on Feb 11, 2013, 09:41:08 PM

Quote from: Bjørn Half-hand on Feb 11, 2013, 07:40:36 PM
No doubt a whole bunch of people are going to totally ignore negative reviews, only take the positive from mixed reviews and praise the positive reviews, completely ignoring the games faults or making excuses for them, or simply saying ''never cared about graphics, story, AI, never thought it'd be best game ever, a 6 out of 10 game sounds good to me''. Oh the denial.
The averge review score so far is 5.7 out of 10

It's not denial. I never base AI in my score tally. I don't think the AI in Halo 4 is overly great at time. It's not stellar in ACIII either. Same with graphics. I am more about story, gameplay (SP and MP), replay value, sound, etc.

You should always base AI in your score, it's the thing that makes the game re-playable. It doesn't matter how many shinies they put in a game, how good the gameplay is or whether the story could have been a novel best seller, if the AI you're up against is shit the whole thing falls down.

It's like playing an RTS that only understands tank rushes, or playing a 4x game where the AI doesn't research or explore but only builds fleets, or playing the latest Madden where your opposition only knows one play, or playing Mortal Kombat and the AI only knows three move combos. Games flop without a good AI to run up against (unless of course they are dedicated MP only games), this game could have so many of it's bad points forgiven if it had given you authentic Aliens, moving in sneaky, smart and unbuggy ways.

In a game like Madden I agree. But in Halo 4 I play more MP than anything else. AI is irrelevant at that point. Yes, in some games AI is crucial but in the games I own I don't find the AI to be exceptional in any of them.

The reviews are already decidedly not on the good side, fanboys should just learn from their mistakes and take the rose tinted glasses off. Sorry its too hard for some of you, I paid $60 for AVP 2010, I chose not to go down that road with A:CM. Whats done is done, but I feel justified just seeing these super low reviews, and the general reactions from those who had the game early.

I've come to realize that the game has many flaws, but there are still fun things in it. The story may be crap and the AI is random but the MP is fun as long as it's played right and the controls feel really nice.

Quote from: Jonesy23 on Feb 11, 2013, 11:09:27 PM
I've come to realize that the game has many flaws, but there are still fun things in it. The story may be crap and the AI is random but the MP is fun as long as it's played right and the controls feel really nice.

Honestly. 100% honestly. How many matches do you think you'll get where the Aliens are played right? Maybe 50% while the population is at it's highest? Once the pop % tails off and you're struggling to find games (if this goes the way of AVP10) maybe 1 in 10 games?

Giant Bomb is going to do a quick look of Aliens: Colonial Marines tomorrow live in 20 hours.

I don't know, It's not as big of an issue with me as it may look in text, but I'm actually feeling for the xeno players on this one. If they don't do coordinated and sneak attacks, they go down pretty easily. It would just make the MP more fun overall. I really do hope the servers don't drop like AVP although I'm sure people will drop out eventually for nitpicky reasons but I still think we'll have a little more time with this MP.

Opinions are like A$$ holes everyones got one.

you know somethins wrong when the big dogs have not released reviews yet... no ign, no gametrailers, no gameinformer, no gamespot...    lets hope im wrong.   god damn it im nervous.   im gettin mine at midnight. i'll let you know around 2 a.m. how it is... (Central time  usa)

There is a review embargo in place until release day.

That's usually not a good sign.

Yeah, looks like this one is a dud guys.  I wasn't expecting the next best FPS experience.  I was just hoping the game would capture the feel of the movie we all love so much.  From what I've seen it seems to try harder than all other games we've had so far.  I'm still hopeful, but I fully expect this one to end up in the same bin as AVP2010.  Sega screwed over rebellion, and they will screw over Gearbox too. 

Quote from: pixelbaron on Feb 12, 2013, 12:13:55 AM
There is a review embargo in place until release day.

That's usually not a good sign.

its not really. games like this always have embargos in order to keep story secrets under cover. acm is a high profile game aswell. seem to remember this happeing for uncharted 3 and arkham city

Arkham City got some early reviews out at least. I don't even care at this point whether they're bad or not, I just want to read them

from ign and gamespot? i remember looking for them but they werent up. i could be wrong

I don't quite remember it was a while ago.

Embargo's don't mean anything. Most games use them.

I haven't been this conflicted about getting a game for ages, i didn't mind avp 2010 . I dunno about this one though, it looks decent but the overwhelming issues i'm reading about such as bugs and dodgy a.i. is putting me off.

I'm renting. I don't have the cash to throw it at, especially considering the reactions. I'll play safe with my money. Got a daughter to feed.

im gunna pick it up tomorrow, im not holding out for the campaign much but the MP looks so much better than AVP2010. seems they have the balancing right, at least from the videos i have seen. im predicting similar scores to AVP

I agree with you. 6-7 would be fine with me.

Quote from: Valaquen on Feb 12, 2013, 02:12:56 AM
I'm renting. I don't have the cash to throw it at, especially considering the reactions. I'll play safe with my money. Got a daughter to feed.

Redbox!

Quote from: Valaquen on Feb 12, 2013, 02:12:56 AM
I'm renting. I don't have the cash to throw it at, especially considering the reactions. I'll play safe with my money. Got a daughter to feed.

If your this kind of man


(http://torrents?%20:p)

Ill probably redbox it as well. My inner fan wants this to be a good game, but my past experiences know better.

Pass. I am so sick of developers of these titles professing their love of the source material then producing a fart of a game. I'm sorry but even a 7/10 should not be good enough for this fanbase.

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PS If you read the review from IT News Africa you will notice that it rarely contains anything positive at all. 7.9 out of 10 is a weird score considering how much they bash the game.

Quote from: PRI. HUDSON on Feb 12, 2013, 02:52:37 AM

Quote from: Valaquen on Feb 12, 2013, 02:12:56 AM
I'm renting. I don't have the cash to throw it at, especially considering the reactions. I'll play safe with my money. Got a daughter to feed.

Redbox!

I don't know what Redbox is - sounds like a porn subscription service  :P I have it being sent over by LoveFilm.

Redboxes are great, Val. Little robotic credit-card movie rental machines outside of gas stations, grocery stores, and fast food restaraunts. They just started getting games awhile back, too! Technically each rental is only about $1 a day, plus tax, and they charge you for however long you keep it until you've eventually paid for it if you never take it back.

Great for small towns like mine, where all of the good old video stores went tits up thanks to Netflix, Amazon, etc... lol.

I preordered it anyway. Most things ive read have to do with graffix and animations. I understand how thats a big deal for lots of people and its cool. I just wanna know that the gameplay is satisfying and the thing works correctly. AvP 2010 looked really nice but the gameplay for single/multi was paper thin. Still managed to enjoy that game somehow so no worries here. Yet...

Quote from: RagingDragon on Feb 12, 2013, 05:14:13 AM
Redboxes are great, Val. Little robotic credit-card movie rental machines outside of gas stations, grocery stores, and fast food restaraunts. They just started getting games awhile back, too! Technically each rental is only about $1 a day, plus tax, and they charge you for however long you keep it until you've eventually paid for it if you never take it back.

Great for small towns like mine, where all of the good old video stores went tits up thanks to Netflix, Amazon, etc... lol.

Ah, I see. I'm in Scotland - I looked online and Redbox seems to be restricted to the US. I rely on Lovefilm to deliver games and I can stream movies too (like Netflix... but I think the catalogue is inferior). It beats blind buying, especially since money is tight.

I feel you dude, the money looks different once you've got kids. I hardly buy things for myself anymore, probably like most parents.

I've made a special exception with this game, though, and oh how silently angry I'm sure I'll be. :laugh: But it's always more fun to dive into regrets with friends, so I'm glad to be feeding Pitchford's kids along with the other 30 people that will still buy the game come midnight!

About 40 minutes left here! My regret generators are warming up as I type this.

http://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3218425/aliens-colonial-marines-review-stay-frosty-and-alert/ (http://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3218425/aliens-colonial-marines-review-stay-frosty-and-alert/)

http://digitalgaudium.com/?p=11253 (http://digitalgaudium.com/?p=11253)

http://uk.pc.gamespy.com/pc/sega-alien-shooter/1227396p1.html (http://uk.pc.gamespy.com/pc/sega-alien-shooter/1227396p1.html)

http://www.vg247.com/2013/02/12/aliens-colonial-marines-buggy-hunt/ (http://www.vg247.com/2013/02/12/aliens-colonial-marines-buggy-hunt/)

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/02/aliens-colonial-marines-review-xenophobia/ (http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/02/aliens-colonial-marines-review-xenophobia/)

http://www.nowgamer.com/xbox-360/xbox360-reviews/1799776/aliens_colonial_marines_review.html (http://www.nowgamer.com/xbox-360/xbox360-reviews/1799776/aliens_colonial_marines_review.html)

http://www.polygon.com/game/aliens-colonial-marines/3159 (http://www.polygon.com/game/aliens-colonial-marines/3159)

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-02-12-aliens-colonial-marines-review (http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-02-12-aliens-colonial-marines-review)

http://www.gamespot.com/aliens-colonial-marines/reviews/aliens-colonial-marines-review-6403640/ (http://www.gamespot.com/aliens-colonial-marines/reviews/aliens-colonial-marines-review-6403640/)

http://www.forbes.com/sites/carolpinchefsky/2013/02/12/review-aliens-colonial-marines/ (http://www.forbes.com/sites/carolpinchefsky/2013/02/12/review-aliens-colonial-marines/)

http://uk.ign.com/articles/2013/02/12/aliens-colonial-marines-360ps3-review (http://uk.ign.com/articles/2013/02/12/aliens-colonial-marines-360ps3-review)

4.5/10 from IGN UK :D

http://www.destructoid.com/review-aliens-colonial-marines-244276.phtml (http://www.destructoid.com/review-aliens-colonial-marines-244276.phtml)

http://www.pcgamer.com/review/aliens-colonial-marines-review/ (http://www.pcgamer.com/review/aliens-colonial-marines-review/)

http://www.insidegamingdaily.com/2013/02/12/45517/ (http://www.insidegamingdaily.com/2013/02/12/45517/)

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/editorials/reviews/10187-Aliens-Colonial-Marines-Review-Game-Over-Man (http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/editorials/reviews/10187-Aliens-Colonial-Marines-Review-Game-Over-Man)

http://kotaku.com/5983463/aliens-colonial-marines-the-kotaku-review (http://kotaku.com/5983463/aliens-colonial-marines-the-kotaku-review)

Quote from: Salt The Fries on Feb 12, 2013, 09:07:38 AM
http://uk.ign.com/articles/2013/02/12/aliens-colonial-marines-360ps3-review (http://uk.ign.com/articles/2013/02/12/aliens-colonial-marines-360ps3-review)

4.5/10 from IGN UK :D

Here's their final verdict;

Aliens: Colonial Marines looks like Aliens, and sounds like Aliens, but unfortunately it just doesn't feel like Aliens. Instead, it feels indistinguishable from almost every shooter you've played in the past twenty years. There are some feelings of nostalgia to be enjoyed, but it soon wears off and all that is left is some bog standard run 'n' gun action that brings little of note to the FPS table. Aliens: Colonial Marines has definitely been crafted with a lot of love for the franchise, it just needed a little more polish and a lot more imagination.

http://venturebeat.com/2013/02/12/aliens-colonial-marines-review/ (http://venturebeat.com/2013/02/12/aliens-colonial-marines-review/)

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/390380/reviews/aliens-colonial-marines-review-or-how-to-waste-a-great-license-review/ (http://www.computerandvideogames.com/390380/reviews/aliens-colonial-marines-review-or-how-to-waste-a-great-license-review/)

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2027860/review-aliens-colonial-marines-is-a-bad-movie-reference.html (http://www.pcworld.com/article/2027860/review-aliens-colonial-marines-is-a-bad-movie-reference.html)

http://www.gametrailers.com/reviews/oz9pto/aliens--colonial-marines-review (http://www.gametrailers.com/reviews/oz9pto/aliens--colonial-marines-review)

http://www.el33tonline.com/past_article/2013/2/12/aliens_colonial_marines_review/ (http://www.el33tonline.com/past_article/2013/2/12/aliens_colonial_marines_review/)

http://www.edge-online.com/echo2-carousel/aliens-colonial-marines-review/ (http://www.edge-online.com/echo2-carousel/aliens-colonial-marines-review/)

http://zombiegamer.co.za/aliens-colonial-marines-zombiegamer-review (http://zombiegamer.co.za/aliens-colonial-marines-zombiegamer-review)

http://www.heavy.com/games/2013/02/aliens-colonial-marines-review-shooter-game-fps (http://www.heavy.com/games/2013/02/aliens-colonial-marines-review-shooter-game-fps)

http://www.gamerzines.com/playstation/aliens-colonial-marines-review.html (http://www.gamerzines.com/playstation/aliens-colonial-marines-review.html)

http://www.egmnow.com/articles/reviews/egm-review-aliens-colonial-marines/ (http://www.egmnow.com/articles/reviews/egm-review-aliens-colonial-marines/)

http://www.thesixthaxis.com/2013/02/12/aliens-colonial-marines-review-ps3-xbox-360-pc/ (http://www.thesixthaxis.com/2013/02/12/aliens-colonial-marines-review-ps3-xbox-360-pc/)

http://www.oxm.co.uk/49644/reviews/alien-colonial-marines-review/ (http://www.oxm.co.uk/49644/reviews/alien-colonial-marines-review/)

http://www.officialplaystationmagazine.co.uk/2013/02/12/aliens-colonial-marines-ps3-gameplay-video-review-the-first-chapter/ (http://www.officialplaystationmagazine.co.uk/2013/02/12/aliens-colonial-marines-ps3-gameplay-video-review-the-first-chapter/)

http://www.gamesradar.com/aliens-colonial-marines-review/ (http://www.gamesradar.com/aliens-colonial-marines-review/)

http://spong.com/feature/10110925/Review-Aliens-Colonial-Marines (http://spong.com/feature/10110925/Review-Aliens-Colonial-Marines)

http://metro.co.uk/2013/02/12/aliens-colonial-marines-review-this-time-its-war-3417232/ (http://metro.co.uk/2013/02/12/aliens-colonial-marines-review-this-time-its-war-3417232/)

http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/02/12/aliens-colonial-marines-pc-review (http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/02/12/aliens-colonial-marines-pc-review) (PC)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gamesblog/2013/feb/12/alien-colonial-marines-game-review (http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gamesblog/2013/feb/12/alien-colonial-marines-game-review)

http://penny-arcade.com/report/editorial-article/aliens-colonial-marines-is-an-unfinished-ugly-mess (http://penny-arcade.com/report/editorial-article/aliens-colonial-marines-is-an-unfinished-ugly-mess)

ALL  NEGATIVE.

I'll be reading all of these reviews later, but here's Sessler's review, one of the few people whose opinion I value greatly, but I lol'd at him not saying the planet's name correctly.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zv5bt2h1M-E#ws (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zv5bt2h1M-E#ws)



Sessler has convinced me to not even bother with getting this game as I planned to, used and cheap.

Quote from: JayHy17 on Feb 12, 2013, 10:00:41 AM
ALL  NEGATIVE.

With the exception of EGM that gave it a freaking 9. Halo 4 got a 7 from these people. Idk what the hell is going on over there.

But yeah this is turning ugly quick  :-\

Quote from: MichaelMyers on Feb 12, 2013, 10:05:59 AM

Quote from: JayHy17 on Feb 12, 2013, 10:00:41 AM
ALL  NEGATIVE.

With the exception of EGM that gave it a freaking 9.

They must have gotten paid under the table, don't know why they would even give it a 9 judging by all we've seen.

My favourite so far?

"WHY: There is nothing redeeming about Aliens: Colonial Marines, unless you count the inevitable relief you might feel once it's over."

Awesome job Gearbox.

More or less finished the game, i would say its a solid 6/10, i think most of these game review critics are pissed because it had soo much potential to be something special. But what we got was a half arsed game with a few nice moments but over all its just another forgetful FPS. If you are a die hard Alien/Aliens fan then still give it a chance its not all bad... but if you are someone who cant really afford to be disappointed then go pick up Dead Space 3 and wait till this drops in price or rent it. It is at least a fun rental.

One thing that piss me off is GearBox going on about Canon and how this game is gunna be the ultamate Aliens game.... Well Randy Pitchford i hope this game dents your already inflated ego, because i dont know what planet you are on? cos this game is NOT the ultamate Aliens game its medicore at best. If you said, well we are making a Aliens game for Fox and we are gunna do our best to please the fans with what budget and time we have, then i may give you the benefit of the doubt for trying. But sorrry Randy you can't polish a turd.

I cancelled my preorder.

This game is mostly crap ... mostly.

IGN scored AVP 7/10 not 8.5 .

Lets all be honest...none really believed it will take a score that low.
I read Gamespot mostly and i trust it.Well i never thought it will get 4.5  :'(  when AvP2010 took 5.5.
I will buy it just out of nostalgia and i believe i will enjoy it but surely i hoped for a better game.

LOL even John Romero's Daikatana got more..and i thought This was bad.

Nosferatu: The Wrath of Malachi
Thats a good example on how they could make the game scary
Really low budget game,mediocre graphics,only a few monsters but the atmosphere is amazing and very intense/scary.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9ZFLm8MJhg# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9ZFLm8MJhg#)

(02:14  :D )

I never would have thought that this game could be worse than AVP2010, but it is so much so. I hope Gearbox goes out of business because of this.

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Quote from: ShadowPred on Feb 12, 2013, 10:10:19 AM

Quote from: MichaelMyers on Feb 12, 2013, 10:05:59 AM

Quote from: JayHy17 on Feb 12, 2013, 10:00:41 AM
ALL  NEGATIVE.

With the exception of EGM that gave it a freaking 9.

They must have gotten paid under the table, don't know why they would even give it a 9 judging by all we've seen.

Yeah, I agree. They are the ONLY place to give it a score that high, and at the time of this writing, they have Aliens ads all over their site.

PC World, 1 out of 5, GTFO.

I won't post my full SP review until I finish the campaign. But I will say I played almost 6 hours on hardened mode and I am still not even done. So anyone who claims they beat it in 5-6 hours is either lying or played on pussy mode. I've spent time looking for the dog tags, audio logs, and the lost marine weapons. By the time I beat all of SP I should be around 8ish hours logged. Not too shabby.

LOLpcworld.

Quote from: PRI. HUDSON on Feb 12, 2013, 12:46:53 PM
PC World, 1 out of 5, GTFO.

I won't post my full SP review until I finish the campaign. But I will say I played almost 6 hours on hardened mode and I am still not even done. So anyone who claims they beat it in 5-6 hours is either lying or played on pussy mode. I've spent time looking for the dog tags, audio logs, and the lost marine weapons. By the time I beat all of SP I should be around 8ish hours logged. Not too shabby.

LOLpcworld.

Still not nearly enough. Dead space 3 is around 15-20 hours. SP is a shitfest, MP can be enjoyed though

Eurogamer  3/10  http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-02-12-aliens-colonial-marines-review (http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-02-12-aliens-colonial-marines-review)

Do i even want to open my post box tonight when returning home from a hard days work.  Also hard to believe they want us to pay an additional £ for the DLC which may be the best aspect of this game.

Still can't quite believe how bad it's turned out to be. What were Gearbox thinking? Did they really think no one would notice? And that trying to stop any reviews from appearing would mean everyone would still buy the game?

I can't believe the low reviews this game is getting mine came 2 days early and I love it especially the multiplayer and the customisation. Single player is always an after thought for me on any game and this is where most of the negative comments are coming from but I have done the first level and it seemed ok and the fact it's got 4 player co-op is even better. I will be playing and loving this game for a long time to come and also buying the season pass

Yeah, I find it surprising Sega would even put out a game in this unfinished state. It does depress me reading these reviews. Gearbox had the chance to fix all the things that we didn't like about AvP and instead have made it a lot worse.

Gonna install it immediately when i get home. I'll experience the game myself. Maybe I'll love it, maybe I won't but I won't let critics decide it for me. And even if I don't love it. At least I've got a cool new powerloader figure ;D

Quote from: Snowdog on Feb 12, 2013, 02:38:57 PM
Gonna install it immediately when i get home. I'll experience the game myself. Maybe I'll love it, maybe I won't but I won't let critics decide it for me. And even if I don't love it. At least I've got a cool new powerloader figure ;D

THANK YOU. It really suprises me to see how many people here are swayed so easily by what critics say.

Quote from: Dovahkiin on Feb 12, 2013, 02:43:01 PM

Quote from: Snowdog on Feb 12, 2013, 02:38:57 PM
Gonna install it immediately when i get home. I'll experience the game myself. Maybe I'll love it, maybe I won't but I won't let critics decide it for me. And even if I don't love it. At least I've got a cool new powerloader figure ;D

THANK YOU. It really suprises me to see how many people here are swayed so easily by what critics say.

Yeah -_- Also it has just been released. They will release patches and stuff. So I see absolutely no need to panic right now. Can't wait to revisit LV-426.

Quote from: Dovahkiin on Feb 12, 2013, 02:43:01 PM

Quote from: Snowdog on Feb 12, 2013, 02:38:57 PM
Gonna install it immediately when i get home. I'll experience the game myself. Maybe I'll love it, maybe I won't but I won't let critics decide it for me. And even if I don't love it. At least I've got a cool new powerloader figure ;D

THANK YOU. It really suprises me to see how many people here are swayed so easily by what critics say.

Most of the people that have been negative about the game (and agree with the critics now that the review embargo has lifted) watched people play the game days ago since the console versions broke street date. No one is "easily swayed by critics" I watched people walk around and fight against horrible AI and watched the horrible story unfold and listened to the bad voice acting.

I got it about 1am last night from Asda - first thoughts were that the aliens are SHOCKING to control, which they are!

I enjoy playing as the marine but the game is ridiculously buggy! I saw a guy online in the elevator next to me fall staright threough the floor and dissappear (then came up that he had been killed). The aliens get stuck all over the place, some walls an Alien can climb on - others you can't - for no apparent reason!

I will always keep this game and will no doubt enjoy it but I can see realisticly it's pretty poor - especially when compared to tittles such as Halo 4 (which makes A:CM look pretty embaressing)


another dissapointment for this franchise  :( :-[

At a point the game was going to be written by a couple of guys from Battlestar Gallactica... right? What happened to that?

Game Informer Magazine gave it a 4

http://www.gameinformer.com/games/aliens_colonial_marines/b/xbox360/archive/2013/02/12/aliens-colonial-marines-review.aspx (http://www.gameinformer.com/games/aliens_colonial_marines/b/xbox360/archive/2013/02/12/aliens-colonial-marines-review.aspx)

Some of the textures look ps2' like the floor ??? Or a simple meal tray ??? Texture update/patch needed asap

After destroying Duke Nukem and now Aliens which are huge franchises I would do total lay offs at Gearbox.   Hire me!   LOL

Gearbox did not destroy Duke Nukem. They were just the studio tasked with the job to patch together a game, that went 14 years through development hell. Their job was to make it functional, so it would finally see the light of day.

Quote from: Dusk on Feb 12, 2013, 05:52:37 PM
Gearbox did not destroy Duke Nukem. They were just the studio tasked with the job to patch together a game, that went 14 years through development hell. Their job was to make it functional, so it would finally see the light of day.

Once again, no. That's just not true. They bought the entire license, they had full creative control. The remnants of 3D Realms were absorbed by them into a smaller team called triptych, but the heads of Gearbox had COMPLETE creative control. They had the game in their control for two years. In that time they made major changes to the script, and to the character of Duke Nukem. The multiplayer side was handled under them entirely (outsourced to another studio under their direction.). They were responsible for all the DLC and patch work that was coming out. They made the choice to purposely give the finger to the DNF community by locking out the developer console, and locking out any attempts to edit the graphics or anything else. They made the failure that is Duke Nukem Forever. Yes, they destroyed Duke Nukem.

Look at the bright side: in three months the price will plummet to $20 and you can own this game on the cheap.

Quote from: RC on Feb 12, 2013, 06:14:12 PM
Look at the bright side: in three months the price will plummet to $20 and you can own this game on the cheap.

I'm hoping it will be a little sooner than that...

Quote from: RC on Feb 12, 2013, 06:14:12 PM
Look at the bright side: in three days the price will plummet to $20 and you can own this game on the cheap.

Sorted that out for you pal. ;).

gametrailers have their review up. Score 5.9

How do i get out of this chickenshit outfit.

http://www.gametrailers.com/reviews/oz9pto/aliens--colonial-marines-review (http://www.gametrailers.com/reviews/oz9pto/aliens--colonial-marines-review)

Wish Gearbox would just go away... Do something right for a change guys.

Quote from: QUAGMIRE83 on Feb 12, 2013, 01:21:41 PM
Single player is always an after thought for me on any game

That's why you can look at it in a favourable light. Obviously, for millions of players (and tens, if not hundreds of reviewers) single player is the most important feature of a game.

That's why Activison and EA still spend millions upon millions of dollars developing a six hour single player campaign for COD, Battlefield and MOH, because it's the be all and end all of many a gamers experience. If it wasn't important any more, these MP behemoths would do away with it completely.

can you tell is there any other view when playing alien except for behind? No first person view? And how to change it?

Quote from: LARGE on Feb 12, 2013, 07:59:13 PM
can you tell is there any other view when playing alien except for behind? No first person view? And how to change it?

Third person only.

Quote from: Elicas on Feb 12, 2013, 06:40:20 PM

Quote from: RC on Feb 12, 2013, 06:14:12 PM
Look at the bright side: in three days the price will plummet to $20 and you can own this game on the cheap.

Sorted that out for you pal. ;).

HAHA!

gametrailers gave it a 5.9  :D
they never give out bad ratings!  ;D

im glad i decided not to buy this
they did say the multiplayer is pretty fun

Quote from: Elicas on Feb 12, 2013, 08:11:21 PM

Quote from: LARGE on Feb 12, 2013, 07:59:13 PM
can you tell is there any other view when playing alien except for behind? No first person view? And how to change it?

Third person only.

Jeasus really? Alien is unplayeble then.. and this was mainly why i waited this game.. how can there be no other view ffs?!?! :O

One 90% rating is the only thing currently holding this game at the same metacritic level as DNF.

Read that again, one obnoxiously over high review is the only thing keeping this from being at a worse score than DNF. Say it all.

3 good reviews out of 42 of them.... The game is plop lol

Waiting for Angry Joe's review..and his reaction.

Should be a laugh.

Unless he really was paid off.

Quote from: Slaine on Feb 12, 2013, 08:20:57 PM
Waiting for Angry Joe's review..and his reaction.

Should be a laugh.

Unless he really was paid off.

He's been ranting over Twitter about this game. He's legitimately pissed off at how bad it turned out.

Didn't know that, thanks. I heard Total Biscuit was annoyed at the ratings critics were giving it too, and warning people never to pre-order games off the bat.

Destructoid review was brutal, but also brutally hilarious. :laugh:

QuoteThe desperate or the gullible may find a glimmer of fun hidden somewhere in the pit.

Lol, I'm going with desperate, though I'm going to get real depressed as no one's going to buy this shit, and the MP will probably be dead within weeks. Maybe it will get another blip on the EKG when the price drops to nearly nothing, but that's nothing more than a death rattle.

Won't even have time to learn how to properly play the Alien.

Back to AvP 2010 and AvP 2. :'( f**king goddamn it. Last Gearbox game I buy, ever, on principle.

Quote from: [T)A]DarkDragon on Feb 12, 2013, 08:15:01 PM
gametrailers gave it a 5.9  :D
they never give out bad ratings!  ;D

im glad i decided not to buy this
they did say the multiplayer is pretty fun

gametrailers pretty much nailed the main problems but pros aswell

Can I just quickly suck up to ikarop and thank him for providing us with something to whinge about for ages on this game.  His dedication to providing news about A:CM in the face of a lot of negativity (guilty, your honour) has been exemplary.

Quote from: SM on Feb 12, 2013, 10:20:34 PM
Can I just quickly suck up to ikarop and thank him for providing us with something to whinge about for ages on this game.  His dedication to providing news about A:CM in the face of a lot of negativity (guilty, your honour) has been exemplary.

I second this.
For Ikarop, cheers!

Spoiler

But that still doesn't make me like this game  :P

[close]

I haven't posted on here since 2007 when I first joined lol
Anyway I've always been checking this site for the latest gossip and things.
Was really hyped about Aliens: Colonial Marines and bought the game without checking the reviews! Now I'm regretting it as I was gonna buy Dead Space 3 lol

patches already announced and 4 pieces of DLC so this game will only get more support from feedback and will get better and better

Guess I'll keep it a bit longer lol

"I've been stealing from fans my entire career."

Quote from: SM on Feb 12, 2013, 10:20:34 PM
Can I just quickly suck up to ikarop and thank him for providing us with something to whinge about for ages on this game.  His dedication to providing news about A:CM in the face of a lot of negativity (guilty, your honour) has been exemplary.

yeahh, good job Ikarop  :P :P :P

Quote from: topman on Feb 12, 2013, 10:24:09 PM
I haven't posted on here since 2007 when I first joined lol
Anyway I've always been checking this site for the latest gossip and things.
Was really hyped about Aliens: Colonial Marines and bought the game without checking the reviews! Now I'm regretting it as I was gonna buy Dead Space 3 lol

Sorry 2008! Still a long time! Ha

Quote from: SM on Feb 12, 2013, 10:20:34 PM
Can I just quickly suck up to ikarop and thank him for providing us with something to whinge about for ages on this game.  His dedication to providing news about A:CM in the face of a lot of negativity (guilty, your honour) has been exemplary.

Thanks! Much appreciated. Your dedication is also worth of mention. I don't think there's a single thread here where you haven't posted! :P

Quote from: Aspie on Feb 12, 2013, 10:35:13 PM

Quote from: SM on Feb 12, 2013, 10:20:34 PM
Can I just quickly suck up to ikarop and thank him for providing us with something to whinge about for ages on this game.  His dedication to providing news about A:CM in the face of a lot of negativity (guilty, your honour) has been exemplary.

yeahh, good job Ikarop  :P :P :P

Thanks Mr. Official AvPG meme! I'm guessing the word "suck" summoned you? ;D

I dont think the reviews are kind. I love  the game. the multiplayer is fun the co op is fun I wish there was more story the customizing weapons and appearance is fine. I suggest people play the game and make up there own mind.

I've been playing for a few hours now, and I've been having fun. It definitely has some bugs that need attention, but it's overall not as bad as they say. I'd say pre patched I give it a 7/10

lol what a failure of a game.. this shit makes AVP look like GOD!! :laugh:
This game was so bad.. animations, loading textures, bugs.. boring/repetative gameplay.. shitty boss battles.. melee combat is non exsistent..

And that was just the SINGLE PLAYER portion!!. man what a letdown. The next time someone says AVP 2010 sucks.. I'll show them how bad ACM is. This game is so bad.

I have been having a lot of fun with this game, despite it's faults. MP really is a lot of fun and I look forward to bughunt. Glad I sucked it up and didn't cancel my preorder... Bad game, but a fun guilty pleasure nonetheless.

I'll jump on the thanks ikarop bandwagon, if I might. So much going on and Galaxy's always on top of it. I just hang out here and refresh pages like Norm at Cheers :laugh: and I'm glad I could suffer this game with some nice people. It really eases the blow knowing that an entire community of people I like are as equally shocked and baffled.

I hope this isn't the last nail in the coffin of the Aliens franchise.

Quote from: HicksLives! on Feb 13, 2013, 03:55:45 AM
I hope this isn't the last nail in the coffin of the Aliens franchise.

Doubtful, we'll see them again in one form or another in due time.

This is sad.. Waited for years for this game to come out ever since i hear about it, cancellation after another, and everyone's saying it's bad? What were the makers doing the whole time? Too busy having a finger up their asz?About to play it in a few to see for myself. Got the collector's edition, thought the statue could have been a little bigger and a wayland patch should have been included. Since c'mon, it's aliens here

Quote from: AcidGlow on Feb 13, 2013, 12:37:17 AM
melee combat is non exsistent..

I think that's actually a good thing. You shouldn't be able to fight off an Alien that can break down solid steel doors. After all the disappointing reviews, I've been replaying AvP's Marine Campaign and man, did I underestimate the Alien on my first encounter. It was all over the place, it actually made an effort to avoid my bullets and in mere seconds, it was in my face. After a short tussle, I was dead. Then I continue, all the Aliens I meet are freaking crazy, jumping from the ground, to the wall, to the ceiling, always darting towards me, and I'm waisting a ton of bullets just trying to get a bead on them. Then I actually managed to properly block and counter their attacks, and suddenly all the terror was gone. I can basically just let them all come up to me, hit them to the ground and finish them off.

It's not even true, anyway. I managed to hit an alien with my pulse rifle and KILL IT. Of course I had sprayed it down with my pulse rifle first, but sure enough it was a melee kill. The Hell.  :laugh:

Wow, you can even melee kill them? That's just... sad.

Quote from: Dusk on Feb 13, 2013, 04:46:17 AM
Wow, you can even melee kill them? That's just... sad.

Yup.  :P

Quote from: Dusk on Feb 13, 2013, 04:46:17 AM
Wow, you can even melee kill them? That's just... sad.

There's actually a challenge in the game for that. Kill 5 xenos with melee in a mission and gain bonus xp!

Oh good lord... Melee in these game should do nothing more than buy you split seconds of time. AvP's Aliens would be truly terrifying, if you wouldn't have the ability to block and counter them. The whole point of the games should be not to let them get close to you in the first place. But now you can outright kill them with melee hits? The game gets worse with each passing day.

Quote from: VonPelz on Feb 13, 2013, 05:29:46 AM

Quote from: Dusk on Feb 13, 2013, 04:46:17 AM
Wow, you can even melee kill them? That's just... sad.

There's actually a challenge in the game for that. Kill 5 xenos with melee in a mission and gain bonus xp!

Lulz this f**king game.

Something comes to mind when hearing the phrase: 'AVP is so much better'. I seem to recall that a lot of fans of both franchises completely hating 'AVP 2010' and somehow now it's a great game. How very odd...

My 3 biggest gripes with AvP were the lackluster campaigns, not being able to crouch, and the lack of Predator weapons. Otherwise it was pretty solid and MP was really fun. If only Rebellion would have created an exciting campaign for all 3 races, like Monolith did with AvP2, I believe the game would have gotten a solid 8/10.

Well, I didn't mean to sound so pissy. I just find it strange when that happens. I've noticed it with other things too, such as when 'Prometheus' came out, then people seem to be more fair to the 'AVP' films. It's strange when we have problems about something until something else comes along to piss us off even more lol. It's just a funny observation is all. I agree with you about 'AVP 2010' I liked it too but no one else I knew would touch it.

Wow, seriously? People give the AvP Movies less shit after Prometheus came out? I admit, they are guilty pleasures, but I wouldn't say they are suddenly not so bad after all.

EGM - 9/10

http://www.egmnow.com/articles/reviews/egm-review-aliens-colonial-marines/ (http://www.egmnow.com/articles/reviews/egm-review-aliens-colonial-marines/)

Sorry if someone already posted it

This guy is a genius...never played the game. Even the screenshots are promotional material :D

Quote from: Never say no to Panda! on Feb 13, 2013, 08:22:37 AM
Bought review or he never played the game...or both. Even the screenshots are promotional material :D

And - from memory - it seems that there are also adverts of the game in the magazine.

There's ads in the Game Informer too, but you don't see them giving the game a good review. Also the 'AVP' answer yes I actually have heard people change their opinions about 'AVP' because now that 'Prometheus' came out, they like to just consider the 'AVP' films 'Alternate Universe' where before when the films first came out, people complained about the continuity. Why not consider them 'Alternate Universe' at the start is all I'm asking.

How dumb can you be to release such a review. Of course a review is more or less a personal opinion...yes, you can rate it 9/10 if you like the game. BUT the whole text is generic AND the screenshots are promotional material...i mean...that's journalistic suicide.

Of course there will be conspiracy theorists that think that he is the only one telling the truth but just look into the comment section...the feedback is not very...positive.

Am I the only one who is enjoying it? I mean, sure, it's not perfect.

I got used to the graphics, I'm good with them.

Controls are clunky, but I made a custom layout.

A lot of games need patches. I don't care.

AI can be annoying, but I'm still dying over and over.

The character customization is awesome. For the marines, I love it. Sure, the Xenos look ridiculous, but the ability customization is way more than I expected!

I'm playing a Colonial Marine, killing Xenos. I'm happy.

I just wish everyone would stop bitching.

amen brother amen

Now all we need is a deck of cards.

Quote from: Apex on Feb 13, 2013, 08:44:57 AM
I just wish everyone would stop bitching.

And I just wish people would stop marginalizing critical opinions of expensive multimedia. You have fun with the bug ridden linear shooting gallery. Don't tell me I have to do the same just so your ears can be spared a different opinion.

I mean, come on!

If you are a real fan, you should be happy that you got a game.

Be happy that you got a game based on a movie from the 80s... Correct me if I'm wrong, but that doesn't happen to often.

Be happy you got an Aliens only, not predator game.

Be happy you shoot Hick's Shotgun, Hudson's Pulse Rifle, and Vasquez's Pistol.

Be happy you can choose what finishing move you preform as a Xeno!

If you won't even play it, then don't call yourself a real fan.

I'd rather this story be canon than Prometheus. Not dissing the film, it was amazing, but I prefer it not to be canon.

Stop bitching and be grateful with what you have,

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Quote from: OpenMaw on Feb 13, 2013, 08:55:04 AM

Quote from: Apex on Feb 13, 2013, 08:44:57 AM
I just wish everyone would stop bitching.

And I just wish people would stop marginalizing critical opinions of expensive multimedia. You have fun with the bug ridden linear shooting gallery. Don't tell me I have to do the same just so your ears can be spared a different opinion.

Sorry, my ears didn't hear anything.

People shouldn't stop b*tching around...because obviously most (!) players are NOT happy with the game. And maybe they already made enough profit from the preorder sales so they simply develop the next game with the same "level of quality"....with more DLCs.

I'm a fan and no, i'm not happy that we get SOMETHING...this is the ultimate excuse for game and movie makers to produce sh*t all the time because we eat it all and are still grateful. Because we are happy to get at least SOMETHING. So why bothering with higher production costs when we can serve low cost material?  And making bad games is no benefit for us gamers...other serious studios won't touch the franchise because the fan base is shrinking with each sh*tty release.

Be grateful you're paying $60/£50 for a glitch-ridden half-assed product, people. Hand over your f**king money and smile, ingrates.

It's pretty pointless to argue about this any further. No one is going to change their opinions and we've officially reached a stalemate.

Quote from: Apex on Feb 13, 2013, 08:55:23 AM
If you are a real fan, you should be happy that you got a game.

Bull crap. Don't dictate to anyone what a real fan is. I want a game that does not feature AI getting STUCK IN THE CEILING. That is the kind of a glitch, you might see in a budget game, but not in a triple A game. Not in the Alien franchise. I want a game that takes the license seriously, and isn't rushed out the last end of a protracted development cycle so poorly that apparently even the writers are compelled to disown it because it came out so poorly. A game with such a long shopping list of bugs and glitches out the gate. This is supposed to be a triple A game. Cutting edge. Something we haven't ever seen before... And it literally is a piece of crap. It barely works.

Quote from: Apex on Feb 13, 2013, 08:55:23 AM
Be happy that you got a game based on a movie from the 80s... Correct me if I'm wrong, but that doesn't happen to often.

Be happy you got an Aliens only, not predator game.

Be happy you shoot Hick's Shotgun, Hudson's Pulse Rifle, and Vasquez's Pistol.

Be happy you can choose what finishing move you preform as a Xeno!

If you won't even play it, then don't call yourself a real fan.

I'd rather this story be canon than Prometheus. Not dissing the film, it was amazing, but I prefer it not to be canon.

Stop bitching and be grateful with what you have,

This is sickening. This is exactly the kind of thing people like TB are talking about. You have such an intense loyalty to a brand, you are a defacto corporate shill, but instead of being on the doll, you're paying them for that privilege.

No. This is how it REALLY works. They say they're making a game that is X Y and Z. When game does not feature X Y and Z, or has major problems with X Y and Z, we as the customer are ENTITLED to be outraged by that. We should be outraged, and we should demand that those things be fixed.

There is literally NO LOSS for those of you who ENJOY THE GAME as it was shelved. You will not lose a single, solitary thing if Gearbox were to listen to the critical response and actually implement the changes and fixes demanded of the paying customers. That needs to be the emphasis for those of you who seem to think this is a buddy relationship. It isn't. It's a commercial relationship. An agreement. They give us a product that is in good condition, and we give them money. They have not given us a product in good condition. They need to fix it. Stop telling people to stop bitching. It's not bitching. It's pointing out the very real, and very egregious flaws in the game. They need to be fixed. Period.

Quote from: Jonesy23 on Feb 13, 2013, 09:05:34 AM
It's pretty pointless to argue about this any further. No one is going to change their opinions and we've officially reached a stalemate.

Tell me, what is exactly your problem with the concept of bug fixes, patches, additions, and tweaks? How exactly is that going to hurt you? Why are you against people pointing out flaws, having a critical perspective, and wanting a change?

I have no problem with you whatsoever. That's why I'm trying to stop this arguing since we all agree that we disagree. That's all I'm saying.

Quote from: Jonesy23 on Feb 13, 2013, 09:13:41 AM
I have no problem with you whatsoever. That's why I'm trying to stop this arguing since we all agree that we disagree. That's all I'm saying.

It will never stop, Jonesy, it will never stop. But that's OK. Its a human right to stand behind the things you believe in.

I just hate to see people who love a franchise such as this go at each other honestly. I like having friendly conversations with fans not hostile ones, I'm just not an agressive person I guess.

Quote from: Jonesy23 on Feb 13, 2013, 09:16:12 AM
I just hate to see people who love a franchise such as this go at each other honestly. I like having friendly conversations with fans not hostile ones, I'm just not an agressive person I guess.

I understand where you are coming from. But, to me, I am not, nor are most people, being hostile. Myself and OpenMaw are on two different sides when it comes to this game, but I know I could PM him right now and we would be the buddies that we are.

Its kinda like being brothers. There are going to be disagreements. We all love the franchise dearly here.

It wouldn't be as much of a problem, if there weren't some people on here, who are basically saying "Accept shit and be happy.". I enjoy the occasional bad game. I have my guilty pleasures. I'm sure everyone has at least 1 game he enjoys, that's critically been torn to shreds. But just because I enjoy it, I'm not going to tell others who don't, to shut up. Especially when I recognize what's wrong with the game.

Quote from: Dusk on Feb 13, 2013, 09:19:51 AM
It wouldn't be as much of a problem, if there weren't some people on here, who are basically saying "Accept shit and be happy.". I enjoy the occasional bad game. I have my guilty pleasures. I'm sure everyone has at least 1 game he enjoys, that's critically been torn to shreds. But just because I enjoy it, I'm not going to tell others who don't, to shut up. Especially when I recognize what's wrong with the game.

I don't get that honestly. I don't think people should accept shit and be happy. Like you mentioned Concrete Jungle before. I really liked that game a lot, like yourself it was a guilty pleasure of mine and that's where I'd put this game. I know its shit and I don't think people should accept that, but I'm guilty of it being a pleasure to me lol.

Quote from: Prime113 on Feb 13, 2013, 09:19:34 AM

Quote from: Jonesy23 on Feb 13, 2013, 09:16:12 AM
I just hate to see people who love a franchise such as this go at each other honestly. I like having friendly conversations with fans not hostile ones, I'm just not an agressive person I guess.

I understand where you are coming from. But, to me, I am not, nor are most people, being hostile. Myself and OpenMaw are on two different sides when it comes to this game, but I know I could PM him right now and we would be the buddies that we are.

Its kinda like being brothers. There are going to be disagreements. We all love the franchise dearly here.

Can I be the eldest brother so I can slap either of you around on a whim? It's what the eldest does...

I have no idea what anyone is talking about, I just read this part.

Quote from: ScardyFox on Feb 13, 2013, 09:29:22 AM

Quote from: Prime113 on Feb 13, 2013, 09:19:34 AM

Quote from: Jonesy23 on Feb 13, 2013, 09:16:12 AM
I just hate to see people who love a franchise such as this go at each other honestly. I like having friendly conversations with fans not hostile ones, I'm just not an agressive person I guess.

I understand where you are coming from. But, to me, I am not, nor are most people, being hostile. Myself and OpenMaw are on two different sides when it comes to this game, but I know I could PM him right now and we would be the buddies that we are.

Its kinda like being brothers. There are going to be disagreements. We all love the franchise dearly here.

Can I be the eldest brother so I can slap either of you around on a whim? It's what the eldest does...

I have no idea what anyone is talking about, I just read this part.

Actually, we were all born at the exact same time. Our mother had a huge....yeah.

Quote from: Prime113 on Feb 13, 2013, 09:33:03 AM

Quote from: ScardyFox on Feb 13, 2013, 09:29:22 AM

Quote from: Prime113 on Feb 13, 2013, 09:19:34 AM

Quote from: Jonesy23 on Feb 13, 2013, 09:16:12 AM
I just hate to see people who love a franchise such as this go at each other honestly. I like having friendly conversations with fans not hostile ones, I'm just not an agressive person I guess.

I understand where you are coming from. But, to me, I am not, nor are most people, being hostile. Myself and OpenMaw are on two different sides when it comes to this game, but I know I could PM him right now and we would be the buddies that we are.

Its kinda like being brothers. There are going to be disagreements. We all love the franchise dearly here.

Can I be the eldest brother so I can slap either of you around on a whim? It's what the eldest does...

I have no idea what anyone is talking about, I just read this part.

Actually, we were all born at the exact same time. Our mother had a huge....yeah.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07So_lJQyqw#ws (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07So_lJQyqw#ws)

Quote from: Hellspawn28 on Feb 13, 2013, 07:53:06 AM
EGM - 9/10

http://www.egmnow.com/articles/reviews/egm-review-aliens-colonial-marines/ (http://www.egmnow.com/articles/reviews/egm-review-aliens-colonial-marines/)

Sorry someone already posted it

OMG, this person might as well have shown a video of a f**kton of cash being handed to EGM for this review, f**king insane. I used to love EGM so much, and I was so happy when they came back after being shut down...now, I can't even bother to care. Gamespot did the same with that whole Kane and Lynch debacle, all credibility f**king lost forever in my eyes.

Quote from: Prime113 on Feb 13, 2013, 09:19:34 AM
I understand where you are coming from. But, to me, I am not, nor are most people, being hostile. Myself and OpenMaw are on two different sides when it comes to this game, but I know I could PM him right now and we would be the buddies that we are.

Its kinda like being brothers. There are going to be disagreements. We all love the franchise dearly here.

I appreciate that sentiment Prime, and I think it's true. My anger is not directed at members at this point, so much as it is directed at the developers and at the idea which walls in developers from ridicule. The idea that suggests that critical opinion is somehow a harmful thing for this game. It's not. It's to the games benefit. It might be harmful for the developer, when critical opinion shreds their reputation. That's how it should be, though. If left unchecked, they'd just as soon give us the bare minimum for the maximum amount of money, if through our actions of purchasing ANYTHING allowed them to do so. That's what so many people are fighting against. 

Gearbox dicked around on this, in a very big way. They need to either fix what they did wrong, or suffer the wrath of angry consumers. That's how it works. It's not a friendship. Close relationships between gamers and developers only work when the developers really care about the game they put out. That can only be measured in the developers actions. The atmosphere at the 3D Realms forums for the better part of ten years was very full of good will. We had very loose and cool communication with the guys actually developing Duke Forever at the time. It was fun. It was neat. ... But look how that mess ended. Everybody got fired, a small group of developers held on and worked out of one guys house, Gearbox picked things up and patched it together and put it out there. It was a mess, and not at all up to the incredible potential it could have have. Indeed, very much DID had, now that we've heard what some of the content of early versions of Duke Forever featured.

The same is true of the Alien franchise. It has such a high level of potential for great games. Games that will actually last many years, if they are done right. That's what I wanted for Colonial Marines. A strong and healthy community, and incredibly good single player game experience. What did I expect from Gearbox? I expected them to do what they did with Opposing Force. Something that good, only with the benefit of modern everything.

See, we can smile and all geek out about Aliens, but when the time comes to put down 50 to 60 bucks on a game, that is being hailed as "Oh so faithful, and up to the standard of a true canonical sequel to Aliens." (Really think about the balls of that claim. Really.) It better be worth every penny. If you went in, and all you wanted was a walk down memory lane. Good for you. I'm glad it satisfied you in that regard. ...I think it's clear that many of us are not satisfied by that.

Quote from: ScardyFox on Feb 13, 2013, 09:29:22 AM

Can I be the eldest brother so I can slap either of you around on a whim? It's what the eldest does...

How old are ya Fox?  :)

Quote from: ShadowPred on Feb 13, 2013, 09:40:38 AM

Quote from: Hellspawn28 on Feb 13, 2013, 07:53:06 AM
EGM - 9/10

http://www.egmnow.com/articles/reviews/egm-review-aliens-colonial-marines/ (http://www.egmnow.com/articles/reviews/egm-review-aliens-colonial-marines/)

Sorry someone already posted it

OMG, this person might as well have shown a video of a f**kton of cash being handed to EGM for this review, f**king insane. I used to love EGM so much, and I was so happy when they came back after being shut down...now, I can't even bother to care. Gamespot did the same with that whole Kane and Lynch debacle, all credibility f**king lost forever in my eyes.

I guess Microsoft didn't pay them that one day, because they gave Halo 4 only a 7/10. Yet CM gets a 9/10. Just wow.

Quote from: Dusk on Feb 13, 2013, 09:47:14 AM
I guess Microsoft didn't pay them that one day, because they gave Halo 4 only a 7/10. Yet CM gets a 9/10. Just wow.

If there was ever any doubt that they got paid under the table...THAT right there is all the proof anyone needs.

Quote from: OpenMaw on Feb 13, 2013, 09:41:55 AM
How old are ya Fox?  :)

A seasoned  36, handsome.

Quote from: ScardyFox on Feb 13, 2013, 09:56:30 AM
A seasoned  36, handsome.

You can be my big bruh then. If you were, like, seven, i'd have to throw you in a dumpster and roll you down a hill or something. Like my brother used to do.

Spoiler

Not really.

[close]

Quote from: OpenMaw on Feb 13, 2013, 10:07:45 AM

Quote from: ScardyFox on Feb 13, 2013, 09:56:30 AM
A seasoned  36, handsome.

You can be my big bruh then. If you were, like, seven, i'd have to throw you in a dumpster and roll you down a hill or something. Like my brother used to do.

Spoiler

Not really.

[close]

Excellent. :)

And don't you put that not really citation. I bet it happened - its the cycle of life and thats fine. I was the youngest in my family so I know how these things work, lol.

Quote from: OpenMaw on Feb 13, 2013, 10:07:45 AM

Quote from: ScardyFox on Feb 13, 2013, 09:56:30 AM
A seasoned  36, handsome.

You can be my big bruh then. If you were, like, seven, i'd have to throw you in a dumpster and roll you down a hill or something. Like my brother used to do.

Spoiler

Not really.

[close]

Oh...that didn't happen to everyone?  :(

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/02/12/wot-i-think-aliens-colonial-marines-single-player/#comment-page-1 (http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/02/12/wot-i-think-aliens-colonial-marines-single-player/#comment-page-1)

RPS trashed it, even though it's John Walker and he talks out of his ass 95% of the time.

The comment section also had my favourite quote so far.

"How many games is this for you, Gearbox?"
"Thirty eight... simulated."
"How many *decent* games?"
"Uh, two. Not including this one."

Maybe people are bitching but they should have brought out a better game. With Aliens so much has already been done for you (the developer). The world, characters, enemies, weapons, sounds and music. You have such a great base to start from that it shouldn't be hard to make a game that will make most fans happy and have non-fans enjoying it and maybe get a average review score of 80 plus.

As i mentioned in another post look what they did with XCOM they took something many people were not familiar  with (but had a hardcore fanbase) in a style of gameplay that wasn't too popular now days and brought out a game that made old fans happy and got new fans into the game. It also managed to get an average score of 90%.


These films deserve a good or great game.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/carolpinchefsky/2013/02/07/aliens-colonial-marines-gives-us-the-bleakest-trailer-ever/ (http://www.forbes.com/sites/carolpinchefsky/2013/02/07/aliens-colonial-marines-gives-us-the-bleakest-trailer-ever/)

pathetic fan review by some geek-girl who isn't an official journalist of Forbes but a blogger, a contributor...

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Oh and she thought this trailer was "awesome":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmLbMHkNwTI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmLbMHkNwTI)

 
"How many games is this for you, Gearbox?"
"Thirty eight... simulated."
"How many *decent* games?"
"Uh, two. Not including this one."


Great quote which that sums up gearbox the best..

Quote from: Dusk on Feb 13, 2013, 09:47:14 AM

Quote from: ShadowPred on Feb 13, 2013, 09:40:38 AM

Quote from: Hellspawn28 on Feb 13, 2013, 07:53:06 AM
EGM - 9/10

http://www.egmnow.com/articles/reviews/egm-review-aliens-colonial-marines/ (http://www.egmnow.com/articles/reviews/egm-review-aliens-colonial-marines/)

Sorry someone already posted it

OMG, this person might as well have shown a video of a f**kton of cash being handed to EGM for this review, f**king insane. I used to love EGM so much, and I was so happy when they came back after being shut down...now, I can't even bother to care. Gamespot did the same with that whole Kane and Lynch debacle, all credibility f**king lost forever in my eyes.

I guess Microsoft didn't pay them that one day, because they gave Halo 4 only a 7/10. Yet CM gets a 9/10. Just wow.

Brandon is a piece of shit,he represents everything wrong with gaming Journalism.

Completely relevant video:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ucl1k6jUqk#ws (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ucl1k6jUqk#ws)

Wonder what Randy Pitchford is thinking right now about all the negative feedback ACM got! Even more curious the top executives over at 20 Century Fox!

They are just counting their money and smoking cigars.

 You can't expect much from EGM and Game Informer these days since 90% of their magazines is ads.

I hope yall get ya faces eaten off by acid blood.

Quote from: Smokeyrelic on Feb 13, 2013, 10:23:09 PM
I hope yall get ya faces eaten off by acid blood.

cool

Alieens game iz da bestest gam ever in da world, I eez loovin eet

Quote from: Smokeyrelic on Feb 13, 2013, 10:23:09 PM
I hope yall get ya faces eaten off by acid blood.

Half to get a game where the alien's acid actually does more than mildly dampen my hair.

Can we all agree that this has to be the Most Disappointing Thing of 2013?

Quote from: Rick Grimes on Feb 14, 2013, 12:12:50 AM
Can we all agree that this has to be the Most Disappointing Thing of 2013?

I second that!

Quote from: Rick Grimes on Feb 14, 2013, 12:12:50 AM
Can we all agree that this has to be the Most Disappointing Thing of 2013?

Yes.

...so far.

Quote from: Rick Grimes on Feb 14, 2013, 12:12:50 AM
Can we all agree that this has to be the Most Disappointing Thing of 2013?

Yep. I wasn't sure to post this, but I guess I will post it here: http://kotaku.com/5984068/how-aliens-colonial-marines-fell-apart (http://kotaku.com/5984068/how-aliens-colonial-marines-fell-apart)

Sorry if someone already posted this link already.

Quote from: Hellspawn28 on Feb 14, 2013, 01:20:22 AM

Quote from: Rick Grimes on Feb 14, 2013, 12:12:50 AM
Can we all agree that this has to be the Most Disappointing Thing of 2013?

Yep. I wasn't sure to post this, but I guess I will post it here: http://kotaku.com/5984068/how-aliens-colonial-marines-fell-apart (http://kotaku.com/5984068/how-aliens-colonial-marines-fell-apart)

Sorry if someone already posted this link already.

Interesting...

Quote from: Blacklabel on Feb 12, 2013, 03:11:55 PM
At a point the game was going to be written by a couple of guys from Battlestar Gallactica... right? What happened to that?

Probably the same stuff. It wasn't a terribly well-written show, in my opinion and the writing team admitted they just pulled things out of thin air, with no long-term plan.

Quote from: RazorSlash on Feb 12, 2013, 08:25:15 PM
He's been ranting over Twitter about this game. He's legitimately pissed off at how bad it turned out.

Interesting. Figured he'd be either one extreme or the other. Only has himself to blame for how much he was hyped up for it. He should look back at his video where he was interviewing the developers. Came across a bit too cheerlead-y.

Nay, almost 'Pitchford-esque'. :)

Quote from: SM on Feb 12, 2013, 10:20:34 PM
Can I just quickly suck up to ikarop and thank him for providing us with something to whinge about for ages on this game. His dedication to providing news about A:CM in the face of a lot of negativity (guilty, your honour) has been exemplary.

Same! Ikarop's been singularly awesome.

Quote from: HicksLives! on Feb 13, 2013, 03:55:45 AM
I hope this isn't the last nail in the coffin of the Aliens franchise.

It won't be. We've still got Creative Assembly's title coming up.

Somehow, not a single detail has managed to leak about it. We don't even know what type of game it would be.

Quote from: Dusk on Feb 13, 2013, 04:46:17 AM
Wow, you can even melee kill them? That's just... sad.

Spoiler

You even beat a really huge one to death with a powerloader, at one point.

[close]

Quote from: Apex on Feb 13, 2013, 08:55:23 AM
I mean, come on!

If you are a real fan, you should be happy that you got a game.

Be happy that you got a game based on a movie from the 80s... Correct me if I'm wrong, but that doesn't happen to often.

Be happy you got an Aliens only, not predator game.

Be happy you shoot Hick's Shotgun, Hudson's Pulse Rifle, and Vasquez's Pistol.

Be happy you can choose what finishing move you preform as a Xeno!

If you won't even play it, then don't call yourself a real fan.

I'd rather this story be canon than Prometheus. Not dissing the film, it was amazing, but I prefer it not to be canon.

Stop bitching and be grateful with what you have,

Assuming this isn't sarcasm, by that logic, you think we should all have been thankful for how 'Requiem' turned out, too?

Considering you wouldn't be "a true fan" if you criticised it and all.

Quote from: Xenomorphine on Feb 14, 2013, 02:52:34 AM
It won't be. We've still got Creative Assembly's title coming up.

"Peer to Dead Space 2". I dont think they would be using those words if they didnt want it to be a survival horror game... :P

but Creative Assembly is mostly known for strategy games so... no idea how this will turn out.

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/300998/new-alien-game-confirmed-for-console-will-be-peer-to-dead-space-2-sega/ (http://www.computerandvideogames.com/300998/new-alien-game-confirmed-for-console-will-be-peer-to-dead-space-2-sega/)

Quote from: Blacklabel on Feb 14, 2013, 03:03:45 AM

Quote from: Xenomorphine on Feb 14, 2013, 02:52:34 AM
It won't be. We've still got Creative Assembly's title coming up.

"Peer to Dead Space 2". I dont think they would be using those words if they didnt want it to be a survival horror game... :P

but Creative Assembly is mostly known for strategy games so... no idea how this will turn out.

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/300998/new-alien-game-confirmed-for-console-will-be-peer-to-dead-space-2-sega/ (http://www.computerandvideogames.com/300998/new-alien-game-confirmed-for-console-will-be-peer-to-dead-space-2-sega/)

I wish we could get a survival horror, Aliens game similar to Amnesia: The Dark Descent.

Bugger... Another play-as-a-human-running-around-with-guns approach.

Might be atmospherically good, though.

Have it be like the original Alien movie with no real way to fight back against the xeno.

I'd prefer it to be varied. with 2 long campaign modes from Alien and human perspectives. Have lots of characters be playable. Some segments are unarmed and you just have to use your wits and whatever the character can find, other times you would have a solid trusty pulse rifle... but you too would be on the run. Make it very survival horror based... no run and gun shooter, plz :P

Alien campaign should be mostly stealth based.. but still fast and lethal ;)

Aliens: Colonial marines just lost a good opportunity to make us play as the alien that popped out of Newt's dad.  :laugh:

YES to all of the above statements. Now, that would be a game that would be fun to play, but I'm not sure who I would give it to, to develop the game.

I'm surprised at the amount of Alien games that dont feature the harpoon from Alien. :laugh:

..you just have 1 shot :P And you gotta use it right.

If it's survival-horror, I doubt we'll be seeing an Alien campaign, unfortunately. Which disappoints me, because I get games for escapism and that means wanting to feel empowered, not hunted.

They might remember that splashing corrosives around a spaceship's hull would be a bad idea, though.

Fond memories of the AVP2 campaigns

Dat atmosphere in the first sections of the marine story.... Finding the skinned corpses... the sense of dread and the amount of time till we see a single alien.  :p

Quote from: Dusk on Feb 13, 2013, 09:47:14 AM

Quote from: ShadowPred on Feb 13, 2013, 09:40:38 AM

Quote from: Hellspawn28 on Feb 13, 2013, 07:53:06 AM
EGM - 9/10

http://www.egmnow.com/articles/reviews/egm-review-aliens-colonial-marines/ (http://www.egmnow.com/articles/reviews/egm-review-aliens-colonial-marines/)

Sorry someone already posted it

The review page comment section got closed. I guess they noticed lots of backlash. The site should be shut down and discounted from metacritic for good.


OMG, this person might as well have shown a video of a f**kton of cash being handed to EGM for this review, f**king insane. I used to love EGM so much, and I was so happy when they came back after being shut down...now, I can't even bother to care. Gamespot did the same with that whole Kane and Lynch debacle, all credibility f**king lost forever in my eyes.

I guess Microsoft didn't pay them that one day, because they gave Halo 4 only a 7/10. Yet CM gets a 9/10. Just wow.

Angry Joe's review is quite disheartening, although he does manage to find a few good things about the game. Final score 4/10.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGX2WE4QUw8#ws (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGX2WE4QUw8#ws)

Ironically he had posted a "top 10 reasons why A:CM will kick ass" video a couple of weeks before release.

What?! Only 3...THREE Aliens focused missions?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGX2WE4QUw8#ws (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGX2WE4QUw8#ws)

i enjoyed that review - probs more exciting than the game hes reviewing.

Heh! That's been the first video of his for a while where the little comedy sketch at the start made me laugh. :)

Waiting for Yahtzee's review for the giggles...

Quote from: Xenomorphine on Feb 14, 2013, 02:17:43 PM
Waiting for Yahtzee's review for the giggles...

I hope he does one, soon  8)

Quote from: Blacklabel on Feb 14, 2013, 03:32:47 AM
Fond memories of the AVP2 campaigns

Dat atmosphere in the first sections of the marine story.... Finding the skinned corpses... the sense of dread and the amount of time till we see a single alien.  :p

Yeah, totally agree.

Quote from: VonPelz on Feb 14, 2013, 12:24:13 PM
Angry Joe's review is quite disheartening, although he does manage to find a few good things about the game. Final score 4/10.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGX2WE4QUw8#ws (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGX2WE4QUw8#ws)

Ironically he had posted a "top 10 reasons why A:CM will kick ass" video a couple of weeks before release.

QFT

I just watched his Top 10. I feel more him, he was so looking forward to this.

Quote from: Bjørn Half-hand on Feb 11, 2013, 07:40:36 PM
No doubt a whole bunch of people are going to totally ignore negative reviews, only take the positive from mixed reviews and praise the positive reviews, completely ignoring the games faults or making excuses for them, or simply saying ''never cared about graphics, story, AI, never thought it'd be best game ever, a 6 out of 10 game sounds good to me''. Oh the denial.
The averge review score so far is 5.7 out of 10

Well I can honestly say this: Didn't like Alien movies simply just didn't like them..so the story doesn't even matter to me if it goes along with it. I just like the games. The story for me has been fun so far. Are there flaws? yeah I've had a few A.I things get stuck but I'm not gonna sit here and whine about it because it won't do me any good. I don't listen to negative 'reviews' or even positive I form my own opinion and do me own thing.

The game is fun, It's great and once a few of my buddies get it we will have a blast playing multiplayer. Those same companies whose reviews some take serious give Mw3, Blacks op, Black ops 2 9s. They even gave Arkham City a 10! Arkham city was dumb! lol In my opinion of course.

Point being if you like to kill **** and have a good time with your friends I believe this game will be fun for you. The graphics are great but with the lighting they look good..of course the game could of been better but it wasn't and this final product I'm happy with. Just my 2 cents.

I would like to hear what the BSG writers think of the game, and how much of their story made it into the final product (Pitchford claimed that a TV series could have been made out of the material, there was so much.) Having seen what I've seen of the plot and dialogue so far, there's not a trace of BSG's tight, meticulous and engaging writing.

Thats pretty much how I feel. I enjoy it (in particular the MP) but I don't love it. In fact I thought it was silly that people hate it so much but I am starting to understand better as to why. I never watched the demo or anything that would spoil it for me. So in a way I un-intendedly shielded myself from the disappointment people are feeling so heavily.

After checking out the demo reel and what not I am feeling a bit of the "wtf?" sentiment. What the hell happened? Now after reading this I am feeling far more jaded that they dicked around with this for so long. Now the pointing of fingers on who to blame is going on and its even more annoying - they did it, they f**ked up (whether its directly or picking someone else to make their supposed product) and need to step up to the plate.

Fact of the matter is they tried to penny pinch when they had a huge budget to work with. Its time to take that scratch from BL2 and make a serious and potent effort to get this patched up and fixed. Or at the least say they're going to and to please bare with them in the time it takes to do so.

Now in all honesty that isn't going to happen so the only thing left for me to do is never buy a GearBox product again. The only consultation is that I am actually enjoying the game so will continue to play it. But like aforementioned now that I am more aware of the overall picture, I won't be hornswoggled by them again on anything they touch.

Quote from: VonPelz on Feb 14, 2013, 12:24:13 PM
Angry Joe's review is quite disheartening, although he does manage to find a few good things about the game. Final score 4/10.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGX2WE4QUw8#ws (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGX2WE4QUw8#ws)

Ironically he had posted a "top 10 reasons why A:CM will kick ass" video a couple of weeks before release.

I was looking forward to this, too bad it was more like depressed Joe than AngryJoe, can't exactly blame him though.

Quote from: Valaquen on Feb 14, 2013, 06:04:47 PM
I would like to hear what the BSG writers think of the game, and how much of their story made it into the final product (Pitchford claimed that a TV series could have been made out of the material, there was so much.) Having seen what I've seen of the plot and dialogue so far, there's not a trace of BSG's tight, meticulous and engaging writing.

So, was it Mikey Neumann's writing there?

The same person who wrote Hell's Highway which in comparison to this seemed like Apocalypse Now?

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How could the same person write such abysmal piece of script and make everything seem so cheap?

I'm sorry to interrupt,just saw it and i wanted to post it...from the EGM review:

''While the action falls a bit short of the blend of first-person shooter and survival-horror I was hoping for, it's all fairly well paced—thanks largely to some excellent level design and solid alien AI.''

(https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.tzaam.com%2Ffull%2F17m.jpg&hash=6e03381d5600011a22ff91f950a3070cabaaf541)

*sorry if someone else post it too before me.

Quote from: VonPelz on Feb 14, 2013, 12:24:13 PM
Angry Joe's review is quite disheartening, although he does manage to find a few good things about the game. Final score 4/10.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGX2WE4QUw8#ws (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGX2WE4QUw8#ws)

Ironically he had posted a "top 10 reasons why A:CM will kick ass" video a couple of weeks before release.

ehmm i dont blame him after seeing those so called "preview demos" ...wich basicly was cgi as we know now or one short level of quality work

Quote from: Valaquen on Feb 14, 2013, 06:04:47 PM
I would like to hear what the BSG writers think of the game, and how much of their story made it into the final product (Pitchford claimed that a TV series could have been made out of the material, there was so much.) Having seen what I've seen of the plot and dialogue so far, there's not a trace of BSG's tight, meticulous and engaging writing.

I thought nu BSG was a schnoozefest - but the crapness of A:CM's writing is a whole new level of bollocks.

Neumann is the guy they've been touting as the 'Writer' over the BSG guys, who I think worked on it a long time ago.

Quote from: SPECIAL FORCES on Feb 14, 2013, 09:17:05 PM
I'm sorry to interrupt,just saw it and i wanted to post it...from the EGM review:

''While the action falls a bit short of the blend of first-person shooter and survival-horror I was hoping for, it's all fairly well paced—thanks largely to some excellent level design and solid alien AI.''

http://images.tzaam.com/full/17m.jpg

*sorry if someone else post it too before me.

They are really going to town on that guy at EGM, with the general consensus that he was paid off.

i mean Angry Joe does bring up an excellent point on multiplayer.

(https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.comicvine.com%2Fuploads%2F12%2F125513%2F2461804-keops_aliens_genocide_226.jpg&hash=c0ddd802dc5bd10b06ecb2396fa9780baf9b64a5)

So nobody is in any doubt here, www.gamerankings.com (http://www.gamerankings.com) have it listed as the 14th worst game on the PC ever based on a minimum of 10 review scores. I played 2 hours and gave up and deleted it off my HDD just because I felt that if I'm going to play a game then my time is going to be spent playing a quality game, not wasting it on this garbage. Yeah the multiplayer might be fun but Jesus... go play multiplayer on something like CoD or Far Cry 3 or anything else really, its multiplayer does not justify you time or your money.
I have never felt so cheated by a game dev in my life.

I think the multiplayer offers something significantly different from Far Cry 3 or COD, which is why I'd rather play this than those two.

Quote from: Valaquen on Feb 14, 2013, 06:04:47 PM
Pitchford claimed that a TV series could have been made out of the material, there was so much.

I'd be fascinated to see this quote in context.

Quote from: Xenomorphine on Feb 15, 2013, 01:28:29 AM

Quote from: Valaquen on Feb 14, 2013, 06:04:47 PM
Pitchford claimed that a TV series could have been made out of the material, there was so much.

I'd be fascinated to see this quote in context.

Quote"I don't know if you've ever seen the series Battlestar Galactica? The lead writers Bradley Thompson and David Weddle on our fiction crafted - we could make a whole TV series out of the material they crafted for us."
~ Randy Pitchford, oxm.co.uk.

"on the fiction crafted" is a flub. I'd correct it but I'm about to snooze.. ... ..

Quote from: SPECIAL FORCES on Feb 14, 2013, 09:17:05 PM
I'm sorry to interrupt,just saw it and i wanted to post it...from the EGM review:

''While the action falls a bit short of the blend of first-person shooter and survival-horror I was hoping for, it's all fairly well paced—thanks largely to some excellent level design and solid alien AI.''

http://images.tzaam.com/full/17m.jpg

*sorry if someone else post it too before me.

EGM closed comment section due to too much backlash. There is limit to different taste argument.
Seriously, the same guy gave Halo 4 7/10, but this shit 9/10? The review lacks coherence, substance and honesty.
Using just promotional screenshots and reusing advertisement words instead of his own words.
I wonder why Metacritic counts shitty site like that.

Quote from: Valaquen on Feb 15, 2013, 04:33:40 AM
"I don't know if you've ever seen the series Battlestar Galactica? The lead writers Bradley Thompson and David Weddle on our fiction crafted - we could make a whole TV series out of the material they crafted for us."
~ Randy Pitchford, oxm.co.uk.

Interesting. I remember that.

The wording makes it seem like they came up with plot elements, rather than a single story for the entire campaign.

Quote from: SPECIAL FORCES on Feb 14, 2013, 09:17:05 PM
I'm sorry to interrupt,just saw it and i wanted to post it...from the EGM review:

''While the action falls a bit short of the blend of first-person shooter and survival-horror I was hoping for, it's all fairly well paced—thanks largely to some excellent level design and solid alien AI.''

http://images.tzaam.com/full/17m.jpg

*sorry if someone else post it too before me.

Yeah, the game has a solid AI alright =P

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JBsimDxMRw#ws (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JBsimDxMRw#ws)

I wasn't even looking forward to this game at all (I dislike playing as marines), and I'm disappointed by how it turned out =/

Quote from: Raku on Feb 15, 2013, 05:54:26 AM

Quote from: SPECIAL FORCES on Feb 14, 2013, 09:17:05 PM
I'm sorry to interrupt,just saw it and i wanted to post it...from the EGM review:

''While the action falls a bit short of the blend of first-person shooter and survival-horror I was hoping for, it's all fairly well paced—thanks largely to some excellent level design and solid alien AI.''

http://images.tzaam.com/full/17m.jpg

*sorry if someone else post it too before me.

Yeah, the game has a solid AI alright =P

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JBsimDxMRw#ws (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JBsimDxMRw#ws)

I wasn't even looking forward to this game at all (I dislike playing as marines), and I'm disappointed by how it turned out =/

I actually like this game, but that was funny.

BOOM! "Dammit!" *sigh*..."I hate the game."   :D

I think that Angry Joe had too much hype for this game, can´t blame him thou. In all fairness I had my game today on PS3, graphics are not as goos as on PC but acceptable..but if you do watch the earlier gameplay vs the final product, yes you are obliged to get pissed off. Where are  the dynamic lightning effects and the fogginess in some levels? A.I is pretty dumb in the SP but feels pretty much like COD or BF or so on. Multiplayer is awesome! I myself did get that feeling what I did with AvP2 on PC. As a Marine you will die if you don´t coordinate with your team. You will still die even i you do, the multiplayer gets the aliens vs marines more like in the movie. If they don´t get too close you are ok, if they do get close...well you´r as good as dead. Playing as alien does take some time to get used to the controls. Not too long at least in my experience. There are some problems with the wall climbing like missing animation when going sideways from wall to ceiling for example. When you do learn to play with the alien you will feel like a killing machine. I mean, I played couple hours and learned pretty quick the controls. Ownage on noob and single marines all the time. TEAMPLAY PEOPLE! Also the splitscree is done well, yes there are very much screentearing but hopefully patches are on the way. I liked that the splitscreen is horizontal..no wait vertical? My english can get mixed but the looks is widescreen. Some missing animations but nothing game breaking. Thou it seems to be slapped in, no story for the second player etc. Just some nameless grunt.

My final verdict for 1.02 version. SP 6/10 (still) playing splitscreen or online 7/10. MP 8/10. But I must say, if they don´t fix some of the problems in time the LAG for example because no dedicated servers and no host mitigation can get frustrating. Some games I played had only minor lag, some games were unplayable because of the lag. So no patches could make the score go down in my books. Game is enjoyable with friend/s but I can´t justify the whole price for this game, not in this state. If you can get it as rental, try it, if you like it, buy it. Mostlikely some fanraged buyers have already changed the game or are selling it on ebay or something.

Also about the Angry Joe, remeber that he is SERIOUS fanboy against everything including alien. So I think his judgement is clouded by this, also I do realize like I said that the shown product in 2011/2012 doesn´t look anything like the final product. That if he would take the fan glasses off and take the game as it is, I think that it would be 5½ or 6 even to him. Different people, different taste and review.

This would be a 5-6/10, with all of the bugs, glitches and stupid AI taken care of. Then it would be a below average game. But with everything I've seen, 4/10 just seems fair.

Here's just one example why 4/10 is a valid score.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JBsimDxMRw#ws (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JBsimDxMRw#ws)

What really sucks is that they ended up having such a fun multiplayer. If the campaign were even decent, mediocre with the polish, graphics, and AI we'd expect from Gearbox, there would be droves more people that stuck around to discover the mp.

Uggghhhhh gaaaaaddddddddddddd.

At this point, I would've much rather they made a solely multiplayer game, maybe with a survivor or horde mode for the single player.

By all accounts, that seems to be the best set-up for Aliens outside of some (badly) contrived story. It allows for tense gameplay, plenty of death, and lots of customization and open, dynamic levels.

Quote from: RagingDragon on Feb 15, 2013, 04:36:10 PM
What really sucks is that they ended up having such a fun multiplayer. If the campaign were even decent, mediocre with the polish, graphics, and AI we'd expect from Gearbox, there would be droves more people that stuck around to discover the mp.

Uggghhhhh gaaaaaddddddddddddd.

At this point, I would've much rather they made a solely multiplayer game, maybe with a survivor or horde mode for the single player.

By all accounts, that seems to be the best set-up for Aliens outside of some (badly) contrived story. It allows for tense gameplay, plenty of death, and lots of customization and open, dynamic levels.

Still finding games easy or they starting to dry up already? Only asking as you commented on wishing more people were sticking around in multiplayer.

Still matchmaking at the same rate, not a long wait at all. But... I'm nervous it will start dropping off.

Still, even after AvP 2010 was "dead," I could hop on almost anytime and find at least 1 or 2 games. It's never totally dead lol.

If it becomes a ghost town, I'll just have to redouble my efforts hounding Galaxy members to play with me. XD I think once more people discover the mp, maybe after the price drops, the game will hopefully get a little boost of additional players.

They just need to get off their stupid ass, apologize for what happened, and commit to fixing what they can ASAP. Stupid bastards don't realize this is the critical time, the cliff edge where the game has pretty much divided people into sp hate/mp love, and we're all waiting on f**king GBX to do something about it.

If we hear nothing by Monday, I'm jumping on the hate train. It would be so easy to just swallow your pride and come out in force to salvage your product. Why would you not do this?

Quote from: RagingDragon on Feb 15, 2013, 05:16:26 PM
Why would you not do this?

Because they don't really give a shit.

You had the chance to work on your favourite franchise of all time, and instead sub contracted extra studios instead of working on it yourself.

Quote from: RagingDragon on Feb 15, 2013, 05:16:26 PM
Why would you not do this?

You could have played it straight with your fans and received less hate if you hadn't hyped the shit out of the game.

Quote from: RagingDragon on Feb 15, 2013, 05:16:26 PM
Why would you not do this?

You could have made the best Alien franchise ever.

Quote from: RagingDragon on Feb 15, 2013, 05:16:26 PM
Why would you not do this?

Very pertinent question my friend.

Quote from: RagingDragon on Feb 15, 2013, 05:16:26 PM
Still matchmaking at the same rate, not a long wait at all. But... I'm nervous it will start dropping off.

It already is:
http://steamgraph.net/index.php?action=graph&appid=49540&from=1360300819 (http://steamgraph.net/index.php?action=graph&appid=49540&from=1360300819)

That drop rate is really something.

Quote from: RagingDragon on Feb 15, 2013, 04:36:10 PM
At this point, I would've much rather they made a solely multiplayer game, maybe with a survivor or horde mode for the single player.

They should have remade Aliens : Online.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok6qjL0-3Ic# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok6qjL0-3Ic#)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3KxC64oE60# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3KxC64oE60#)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTRjsxkGeBk# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTRjsxkGeBk#)


Recreate all the levels, the game-modes, the persistant ranking. It would have been great.


Hell, just take the assets from A:CM, hand them off to another developer, and build a free-to-play online experience. Make a whole bunch of marine and alien skins that you can buy for micro-transaction. Blammo. Everybody wins.

Dat Aliens Online looks ahead of its time.

Another thing I think about while reading these reviews, which isn't mentioned much, is how different people's playing experiences can be regarding the wonky AI.

Since it seems to be almost random, I'm sure some people have playthroughs that are much better than others. Mine hasn't been so bad, actually. A few Alien hang-ups, but on UB mode, the second they close on you, you're either going to go down or just die outright.

Since your partners can die during co-op, the most immersion breaking deal for me is f**king dumbass O'Neal. He runs in the room and draws most of the Aliens out, and is constantly yelling while missing everything. ::)

I'm someone who like to provoke gamer failure.
So many AI did not work (including the very first Lurker you encounter).
The best was the queen that made me restart the mission since she got stuck by trying to catch me inside a crate in which I wasn't.
Love the raven teleportation and the crusher miss-comprehensions that sometimes charged at... nothing?
Got also a wide diamond mine of human WY corp doing nothing.
Also in MP Coop I experienced today the retarded alien in the server that screams like in panic in front of you (the room where they are three) and don't do anything. Free to move around and mess with them.

Pathetic, every enemy in the game is so glitchy/buggy/retarded.

Have a listen to these two guys discussing/raging over Aliens Colonial Marines, they hate it so badly it's quite simply the funiest 13 minutes I've ever listened to!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef1Ds_BHAGA#ws (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef1Ds_BHAGA#ws)

I love the bit where they rage on the weapon attachments, then one of the guys says he fell asleep during an in-game cutscene he was so bored. They fully discuss all of the conspiracies too...

After about ten minutes they can't even articulate what they are trying to say anymore haha.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FlMdUen8eEE&feature=related (http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FlMdUen8eEE&feature=related)

Quote from: ChrisPachi on Feb 16, 2013, 03:14:08 AM
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FlMdUen8eEE&feature=related (http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FlMdUen8eEE&feature=related)

Here Chris, I think your link is in a different protocol - I couldn't access it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlMdUen8eEE# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlMdUen8eEE#)

Edit - I'm laughing so hard, I be crampin.

 :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

LMAO


"Oh no, dem Alien legs!"

Quote from: RagingDragon on Feb 16, 2013, 03:32:55 AM
Edit - I'm laughing so hard, I be crampin.

Laughing so hard I fell under my desk.

Quote from: ShadowPred on Feb 16, 2013, 03:39:20 AM
LMAO


"Oh no, dem Alien legs!"

"But it was a human legs!"

Best part is that the scene he shows is from the demo, not the game.  :laugh:

Devs get lazy and think multiplayer can save a game. But it doesn't. Not if the entire game is bad to begin with. Give the game about a month, maybe abit, less and the game will be deserted online. Multiplayer can make a game last years if done right. *Cough AVP2* sure COD wasn't a problem then. But if a game has fun adicting multiplayer people are gonna stick around and continue to play it so long as theres reason to. Even something as basic as a leaderboard and 50 or so rank ups give people to keep playing, especially if theres a nice reward at the end of it all.

This game could of been fine without the singleplayer aspect and instead stay a multiplayer player team based shooter ala left 4 dead. Your your simple objective is to get to the other end of the level alive against eight or so alien players. Anyone played that steam game "Swarm" Gameplay like that where you place turrets and wield doors and stuff.

Quote from: Guts on Feb 16, 2013, 06:32:34 AM
Anyone played that steam game "Swarm" Gameplay like that where you place turrets and wield doors and stuff.

Alien Swarm? That is a great gaming experience.

Anyone unfamiliar:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaL7Cd0L0Fk#ws (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaL7Cd0L0Fk#ws)


It's a great free game. Four player coop experience, too. Another example of what could have been done with the official Aliens license.

Guys I have no HUD in the pc version. Is there a switch for it? help pls

It's allegedly turned off in 'badass mode', if that's what you've been using?

OMG thank you. I thought there is something wrong with my game

Quote from: OpenMaw on Feb 16, 2013, 07:35:22 AM

Quote from: Guts on Feb 16, 2013, 06:32:34 AM
Anyone played that steam game "Swarm" Gameplay like that where you place turrets and wield doors and stuff.

Alien Swarm? That is a great gaming experience.

Anyone unfamiliar:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaL7Cd0L0Fk#ws (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaL7Cd0L0Fk#ws)


It's a great free game. Four player coop experience, too. Another example of what could have been done with the official Aliens license.

That game was fun as hell. I'd also say Natural Selection 2 has given a more "alien" experience than any true Alien game in recent years.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/fun/gaming/gamingreviews/4797098/review-aliens-colonial-marines-xbox-360.html (http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/fun/gaming/gamingreviews/4797098/review-aliens-colonial-marines-xbox-360.html)

No score given, but overly a negative review stating the atmosphere was good but gameplay was lacking.

Quote from: TheSun
Aliens: Colonial Marines has the atmosphere... but not the gameplay
The action is very much a slow-burn — the first few levels are arduous and have you feeling your way through things.

Not that the Sun is a luminary of gaming reviews, the reviewer obviously holds the COD franchise to be the pinnacle of FPS (with all that suggests, he's obviously a f**ktard). and the review barely registers as a preview piece let alone a real review, but there we are, it's still an official review.

It's also about the only review many 'casual' gamers in Britain will see unless they buy gaming mags, The Sun has the biggest readership of any normal paper in the UK I believe.

The Sun's a rag, a joke of a paper. Most people buy it for the tits on page 3 or to make fun of it, I'm sure. At 20-30p it's a cheap giggle.

People were slamming this game last night in the pub. It's got a hell of a reputation.

Quote from: Valaquen on Feb 16, 2013, 02:37:07 PM
The Sun's a rag, a joke of a paper. Most people buy it for the tits on page 3 or to make fun of it, I'm sure. At 20-30p it's a cheap giggle.

People were slamming this game last night in the pub. It's got a hell of a reputation.

Let me say that, as a builder, nearly every trained tradesman and general site operative (labourer) up and down the country that I've ever met has the Sun as his bible of news, mostly for the sport, but everyone sits down for a read and a smoke at half twelve, and pretty much everyone reads the Sun/Star.

It might be a rag, but it sells to us working class lads.

One more question. Does any body know will there be a patch with first person view with alien? or anything like it? The view they made is alright for noobs.. what about the skilled alien players

Quote from: Elicas on Feb 16, 2013, 02:42:06 PM

Quote from: Valaquen on Feb 16, 2013, 02:37:07 PM
The Sun's a rag, a joke of a paper. Most people buy it for the tits on page 3 or to make fun of it, I'm sure. At 20-30p it's a cheap giggle.

People were slamming this game last night in the pub. It's got a hell of a reputation.

Let me say that, as a builder, nearly every trained tradesman and general site operative (labourer) up and down the country that I've ever met has the Sun as his bible of news, mostly for the sport, but everyone sits down for a read and a smoke at half twelve, and pretty much everyone reads the Sun/Star.

It might be a rag, but it sells to us working class lads.

I know. I'm from a working class family too. I remember sitting in the van with my cousin and uncles doing a flitting and they'd sit around the paper with a bacon roll and comment on the stories. Even they knew it was bull (unless it was a story on immigrants... people are funny that way...)

Quote from: LARGE on Feb 16, 2013, 02:52:07 PM
One more question. Does any body know will there be a patch with first person view with alien? or anything like it? The view they made is alright for noobs.. what about the skilled alien players

I think that anything coming (DLC, patches) will simply be thrown out, without anything extensive done to fix the game.

Quote from: Apex on Feb 13, 2013, 08:55:23 AM
I mean, come on!

If you are a real fan, you should be happy that you got a game.

Be happy that you got a game based on a movie from the 80s... Correct me if I'm wrong, but that doesn't happen to often.

Be happy you got an Aliens only, not predator game.

Be happy you shoot Hick's Shotgun, Hudson's Pulse Rifle, and Vasquez's Pistol.

Be happy you can choose what finishing move you preform as a Xeno!

If you won't even play it, then don't call yourself a real fan.

I'd rather this story be canon than Prometheus. Not dissing the film, it was amazing, but I prefer it not to be canon.

Stop bitching and be grateful with what you have,

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Quote from: OpenMaw on Feb 13, 2013, 08:55:04 AM

Quote from: Apex on Feb 13, 2013, 08:44:57 AM
I just wish everyone would stop bitching.

And I just wish people would stop marginalizing critical opinions of expensive multimedia. You have fun with the bug ridden linear shooting gallery. Don't tell me I have to do the same just so your ears can be spared a different opinion.

Sorry, my ears didn't hear anything.

So a fan should be happy because they got a turd wrapped in tinfoil? Because afterall, least we have a game!  >:(

I'm happy with the multiplayer, but the point was to make a decent game with all of its parts. Even a mediocre effort could've held the mp up for months, at least. Now we have players leaving already due to bad press and a terrible, buggy single player mode.

If the mp truly takes a nosedive like the much less fun AvP 2010, I'm going to join the f**king dark side and start subjugating planets. :-\

Quote from: RagingDragon on Feb 16, 2013, 03:27:58 PM
I'm happy with the multiplayer, but the point was to make a decent game with all of its parts. Even a mediocre effort could've held the mp up for months, at least. Now we have players leaving already due to bad press and a terrible, buggy single player mode.

If the mp truly takes a nosedive like the much less fun AvP 2010, I'm going to join the f**king dark side and start subjugating planets. :-\

(https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimages2.wikia.nocookie.net%2F__cb20100409152340%2Fpercyjacksonfanfiction%2Fimages%2F8%2F80%2FJoin_the_dark_side.gif&hash=af37e7e83e44d7a4b06f1ed883e1486ded5374bd)

Quote from: Valaquen on Feb 16, 2013, 02:37:07 PM
The Sun's a rag, a joke of a paper. Most people buy it for the tits on page 3 or to make fun of it, I'm sure. At 20-30p it's a cheap giggle.

Wouldn't surprise me if a lot of parents/grandparents might peruse the reviews to decide what to get the youngest in the family as a gift. A review like that, which specifies the 'fun part' is a let-down, will probably cause numerous credit cards to be retained in wallets.

QuotePeople were slamming this game last night in the pub. It's got a hell of a reputation.

That... Is impressive. :o I can't remember the last time I've heard people even talk about games in one, let alone share an opinion.

Holy f**k, people actually talking about how shit a game is in a public area? I feel like I'm in the past...thank you Gearbox, thank you for bringing the 90s back.

Quote from: Xenomorphine on Feb 16, 2013, 05:57:33 PM

Quote from: Valaquen on Feb 16, 2013, 02:37:07 PM
The Sun's a rag, a joke of a paper. Most people buy it for the tits on page 3 or to make fun of it, I'm sure. At 20-30p it's a cheap giggle.

Wouldn't surprise me if a lot of parents/grandparents might peruse the reviews to decide what to get the youngest in the family as a gift. A review like that, which specifies the 'fun part' is a let-down, will probably cause numerous credit cards to be retained in wallets.

Good point about the parents/grandparents thing. More middle aged people read the Daily Mail though far as I know, so maybe This Review (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2277571/Aliens-Colonial-Marines-review-Xbox-360--PS3--PC--Wii-U.html) is more pertinent to that discussion. Mixed 3/5 generally poor and not worth getting.

Thing is, i didn't understand the reviews AVP3 got. Because i love that game. I didn't experience Verigo or anything like that, The aliens controlled good and it was responsive, and the gameplay and shooting and AI on the aliens were good and they packed a punch. After reading the reviews on A:CM It just looks like a bad game. Buggy, glitchy, broken, dated visuals. Bad gameplay.

---

I wished A:CM focused on the horror and suvival aspect more. You can still be a bad ass marine with a pulse rifle without having to shoot waves of enemies, if you manage to take down a Xeno, numbers are trival.

O'Neill grabs the doctor and violently slams him down on the operating table, pushing a sidearm into the terrified man's masked face.

"You make one f**king sound..."

(the doctor's eyes bulge in fear; wide and fixed on his attacker as sweat begins to bead across his forehead)

"...and it's your brains they'll find in the garbage tomorrow morning."

There's a muffled snort. Winter lowers his pulse rifle; scratches his head. An alien is born as O'Neill stares blankly into the middle distance, no discernible emotion on his face. He suddenly screams...

"Rooms clear!"

... then shoots a wall and disappears through the floor.

Story mode has some good moments and multiplayer is really good so all in all im happy. it's not as much of a disappointment as black ops 2 was that's for sure but companies would not dare give that a bad review.

Quote from: QUAGMIRE83 on Feb 17, 2013, 12:50:38 PM
Story mode has some good moments and multiplayer is really good so all in all im happy. it's not as much of a disappointment as black ops 2 was that's for sure but companies would not dare give that a bad review.

Black Ops 2 is miles better than Colonial Marines. Even the cheesy lines they couldn't get right 'We're not in Kansas anymore' wrong  James Cameron film guys. Great work Gearbox or is it Timegate or some random guys in Shanghai they outsourced the game to?

Quote from: QUAGMIRE83 on Feb 17, 2013, 12:50:38 PM
Story mode has some good moments and multiplayer is really good so all in all im happy. it's not as much of a disappointment as black ops 2 was that's for sure but companies would not dare give that a bad review.

What is that even supposed to mean?

This guy gave ACM a 9/10 :o
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/reviews/egm-review-aliens-colonial-marines/ (http://www.egmnow.com/articles/reviews/egm-review-aliens-colonial-marines/)

Quote from: spacemarine on Feb 17, 2013, 02:09:14 PM
This guy gave ACM a 9/10 :o
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/reviews/egm-review-aliens-colonial-marines/ (http://www.egmnow.com/articles/reviews/egm-review-aliens-colonial-marines/)

Already been posted.

Quote from: Cal427eb on Feb 17, 2013, 03:25:57 PM

Quote from: spacemarine on Feb 17, 2013, 02:09:14 PM
This guy gave ACM a 9/10 :o
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/reviews/egm-review-aliens-colonial-marines/ (http://www.egmnow.com/articles/reviews/egm-review-aliens-colonial-marines/)

Already been posted.

Yup already posted. Think the general world wide consensus was he was either paid off or never actually played the game ;)

I believe it's actually both. The review is basically a description of the game that we've all heard prior to release, and all this guy did was just stretch that out into a "review." And I heard from some folks that their magazine was littered with A:CM ads all over the place, so if that's true...then I guess it's not a stretch to say that EGM got paid for this review, and didn't even bother to play it either.

Hello all,

I have been on the boards for a while but this is the first time I have registered to post. I work in media and have a solid connection to the franchise. We were the ones who broke the news of AVP being PG -13 way back when. But I digress. I think the game is getting some very unfair reviews. Part of it I believe is Backlash from Duke Nukem Forever which Gearbox still gets grief over. They were spared grief with Borderlands 2 but that one did not give people much to complain about. I think with ACM, people took what is a standard 3D shooter and amplified the issues. I played on PC and I did not have any technical issues or bugs at all. I had issues with some of the gameplay, but thought the look and story were interesting. Anyway, our review is here if anyone wants to read it.

http://sknr.net/2013/02/17/aliens-colonial-marines/ (http://sknr.net/2013/02/17/aliens-colonial-marines/)

Quote from: gareth on Feb 18, 2013, 12:01:04 AM
Hello all,

I have been on the boards for a while but this is the first time I have registered to post. I work in media and have a solid connection to the franchise. We were the ones who broke the news of AVP being PG -13 way back when. But I digress. I think the game is getting some very unfair reviews. Part of it I believe is Backlash from Duke Nukem Forever which Gearbox still gets grief over. They were spared grief with Borderlands 2 but that one did not give people much to complain about. I think with ACM, people took what is a standard 3D shooter and amplified the issues. I played on PC and I did not have any technical issues or bugs at all. I had issues with some of the gameplay, but thought the look and story were interesting. Anyway, our review is here if anyone wants to read it.

http://sknr.net/2013/02/17/aliens-colonial-marines/ (http://sknr.net/2013/02/17/aliens-colonial-marines/)

Nobody gives a hoot about Gearbox's other games.

Bringing back dead characters and locations meant the story had issues from the get go.  Since it never addressed bringing back those elements, that part of the game was doomed.

Additionally the much touted 'attention to detail' mentioned in the review doesn't stand up to a great deal of scrutiny against film locations.

Really how hard is it to make a decent FPS based in the Aliens Universe. Given six years to do it and still put out a game that looks rushed, unfinished and outdated. If they didn't want to make it and wanted to focus on Borderlands they should have never taken the game on board. Bloody outsourcing it to some company I've never heard of before!

And to all those people saying we should be happy we even got a game,i am not are not  some hobo on the street asking for change who should be happy how little is give to them cause its better than nothing. The Xbox has been out for nearly seven years they should be able to deliver a game that dosen't look like something on the N64! They mad money from AVP 2010 imagine how much they could make from making a good quality Aliens game!


And all this talk about DLC making it better or fixing it is insulting. What you bring out a crappy, glitchy game that is not what was promised and charge people 70-80 dollars for it. Then they  expect people to pay more for DLC's? Come on that's getting done up the a#@!

Hi gareth. :)

Quote from: gareth on Feb 18, 2013, 12:01:04 AMPart of it I believe is Backlash from Duke Nukem Forever which Gearbox still gets grief over.

The backlash comes purely from the fact that the game is not the game that Gearbox were promoting and not the game that all of the the positive previews and sneak-peeks in the media were based upon. Everyone got conned, and regardless of whether you like it or not or whether or not it had glitches on your rig or whether it was the developer's or the publisher's fault for letting it out into the world, it is the talking heads at Gearbox that will - and absolutely should - cop the flack for it (until they crawl out from under their rock and make us think otherwise).

Quote from: gareth on Feb 18, 2013, 12:01:04 AM
Hello all,

I have been on the boards for a while but this is the first time I have registered to post. I work in media and have a solid connection to the franchise. We were the ones who broke the news of AVP being PG -13 way back when. But I digress. I think the game is getting some very unfair reviews. Part of it I believe is Backlash from Duke Nukem Forever which Gearbox still gets grief over. They were spared grief with Borderlands 2 but that one did not give people much to complain about. I think with ACM, people took what is a standard 3D shooter and amplified the issues. I played on PC and I did not have any technical issues or bugs at all. I had issues with some of the gameplay, but thought the look and story were interesting. Anyway, our review is here if anyone wants to read it.

http://sknr.net/2013/02/17/aliens-colonial-marines/ (http://sknr.net/2013/02/17/aliens-colonial-marines/)

This is an Aliens/Predators fansite, most of us don't care about Duke Nukem at all. They're getting so much grief because their game was a f**king shitfest.

Welcome to the site.

Quote from: Cal427eb on Feb 17, 2013, 01:34:36 PM

Quote from: QUAGMIRE83 on Feb 17, 2013, 12:50:38 PM
Story mode has some good moments and multiplayer is really good so all in all im happy. it's not as much of a disappointment as black ops 2 was that's for sure but companies would not dare give that a bad review.

What is that even supposed to mean?

it means that treyach promised a lot with bo2 and all we got was the same old shit and they actually made it worse. MW3 was amazing online and to follow that with the shit we got from bo2 was the biggest disappointment ever.

Quote from: QUAGMIRE83 on Feb 18, 2013, 12:50:35 PM

Quote from: Cal427eb on Feb 17, 2013, 01:34:36 PM

Quote from: QUAGMIRE83 on Feb 17, 2013, 12:50:38 PM
Story mode has some good moments and multiplayer is really good so all in all im happy. it's not as much of a disappointment as black ops 2 was that's for sure but companies would not dare give that a bad review.

What is that even supposed to mean?

it means that treyach promised a lot with bo2 and all we got was the same old shit and they actually made it worse. MW3 was amazing online and to follow that with the shit we got from bo2 was the biggest disappointment ever.

In case you didn't notice, all COD's are basically the same so I don't see how it could be a disappointment.

Quote from: QUAGMIRE83 on Feb 17, 2013, 12:50:38 PM
Story mode has some good moments and multiplayer is really good so all in all im happy. it's not as much of a disappointment as black ops 2 was that's for sure but companies would not dare give that a bad review.

Black Ops 2 is MILES better than ACM. Not even in the same league. (Sadly).

This is from games.on.net and the reviewer says he wrote the following 5 years ago at the time Borderlands 1 was being worked on by a very small team:

QuoteDuring the preview we were shown several clips of what we were told was gameplay.

Here's what I wrote about one of them: "Immediately impressive in this situation is the way that the Aliens move. They're fast and agile and do not conform to using predictable AI paths. In fact, you're almost hypnotised by the way that they leap around the level, grabbing onto pillars before leaping to the ground and attacking your beleaguered squad by whipping their tails and slashing their claws. Being so fast, it's hard to get an accurate bead with your weapon. You're literally crapping your pants hoping that you can hold off against the hordes, hoping that the turret can kill a few or that your explosive charge can take out as many as possible."

The Colonial Marines installed now on my computer, the one that I just played, makes a liar out of me.

Very interesting, here's the article: http://games.on.net/2013/02/aliens-colonial-marines-reviewed-an-embarrassment-that-should-never-have-been-released/ (http://games.on.net/2013/02/aliens-colonial-marines-reviewed-an-embarrassment-that-should-never-have-been-released/)

So f**king sad.

Yeah why couldn't they f**k borderlands up and put more team members on aliens, Iv never liked borderlands anyway.

Quote from: QUAGMIRE83 on Feb 20, 2013, 03:19:03 PM
Yeah why couldn't they f**k borderlands up and put more team members on aliens, Iv never liked borderlands anyway.

Because Borderlands is their own IP and they'll get a higher percentage of the profit margin than they'll get for A:CM.

Quote from: Elicas on Feb 20, 2013, 04:06:00 PM

Quote from: QUAGMIRE83 on Feb 20, 2013, 03:19:03 PM
Yeah why couldn't they f**k borderlands up and put more team members on aliens, Iv never liked borderlands anyway.

Because Borderlands is their own IP and they'll get a higher percentage of the profit margin than they'll get for A:CM.

good point

Quote from: Elicas on Feb 20, 2013, 04:06:00 PM

Quote from: QUAGMIRE83 on Feb 20, 2013, 03:19:03 PM
Yeah why couldn't they f**k borderlands up and put more team members on aliens, Iv never liked borderlands anyway.

Because Borderlands is their own IP and they'll get a higher percentage of the profit margin than they'll get for A:CM.

So so true.

just played co-op for the first time and I really like it, there wasn't any lag and all the pick up items were shared. The only thing I didn't like was that I couldn't search ongoing games in any detail.

Spoiler

I think the single player DLC should let you play as Hicks when he gets woken from hypersleep just before alien 3 and explain just who the hell it was in his cryotube if it wasn't him, he said it was a long story so it is possible

[close]

I would also like to see some DLC set on fury 161 even if it's just multiplayer maps.

Quote from: QUAGMIRE83 on Feb 21, 2013, 04:30:02 PM

Spoiler

I think the single player DLC should let you play as Hicks when he gets woken from hypersleep just before alien 3 and explain just who the hell it was in his cryotube if it wasn't him, he said it was a long story so it is possible

[close]

I actually predicted this a few days ago.

I'm dreading it, but think it's inevitable.

QuoteI would also like to see some DLC set on fury 161 even if it's just multiplayer maps.

Don't hold your breath. :) They seem to want to stay as far away from what was portrayed in 'Alien 3' as possible.

shame I really like the atmosphere of alien 3

Facehuggerzzz can onlehh facehurgg humans!!!!!!!

Spill.com review http://my.spill.com/profiles/blogs/aliens-colonial-marines-audio-review (http://my.spill.com/profiles/blogs/aliens-colonial-marines-audio-review)

It's finally arrived...

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/6912-Aliens-Colonial-Marines (http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/6912-Aliens-Colonial-Marines)

The comparison with a hypothetical 'Blues Brothers' game is amusingly thought-provoking.

Quote from: Xenomorphine on Feb 28, 2013, 12:45:33 AMhttp://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/6912-Aliens-Colonial-Marines

The most fun I've had all week. Thank you.

Just been reading the Aliens Versus Predator: Evolution review (http://www.avpgalaxy.net/games/avp-evolution/alien-vs-predator-evolution-review/2/) and realised I don't think we've actually had an official AVPG review of the shitfest that is A:CM. We going to get one from the collective lads?

That is all.  :)

Yup, it's already uploaded to the site. Just missing a few final touches.

I think Aaron was writing it and was continuously stalled due to throwing up in his mouth. I've been having the same experience writing my own.

Quote from: Valaquen on Mar 01, 2013, 12:52:21 AM
I think Aaron was writing it and was continuously stalled due to throwing up in his mouth. I've been having the same experience writing my own.

:D Woke my son up chuckling at this, thanks :P

Quote from: Valaquen on Mar 01, 2013, 12:52:21 AM
I think Aaron was writing it and was continuously stalled due to throwing up in his mouth. I've been having the same experience writing my own.

To be honest I really didn't want to put "pen-to-paper" with it. I've written it, it's up and just needs me to pretty it up with some screengrabs and then it'll be up. Probably tonight or tomorrow.

http://www.avpgalaxy.net/2013/03/03/avpgalaxy-reviews-aliens-colonial-marines/ (http://www.avpgalaxy.net/2013/03/03/avpgalaxy-reviews-aliens-colonial-marines/)

Here you go.

Well written Hicks. I think you were quite fair to the game actually.


Though I do have to question one remark in the review. Wouldn't the last time we were in the derelict by from AvP 1999? The first marine level takes you through the original Jockey Ship.

Oh yes - I see what you mean. I'll amend that.

Thanks for the review!

One minor note about the dog tags, you can go to your service record and read little snippets of story for each dog tag after you find them. There are some interesting things to read. Some of it is corny.

Brandon Justice left EGM. The chief editor talked about this issue. I am sure the cause was his BS A:CM review.
The editor tried to defend him as much as possible, but there is not excuse.
There is so much you can defend one's opinion with "everyone has different opinion" argument.
When the reviewer outright lie about the game's technical flaw, he deserves every backlash.
His Halo 4 review was downright awful. It's like me complaining about COD for not diverse enemies.
Even though I don't like COD series, I wouldn't write such garbage review with too much of bias.
BTW, A:CM metacritic score went down with new low score from other foreign country.

That's good to know since that review was horribly insane.

QuoteThis week on Spoiled Games, we're spoiling ALIENS: COLONIAL MARINES, the early frontrunner for 2013's Disappointment of the Year. Adam Sessler is joined by Polygon's Reviews Editor Arthur Gies and Rev3Games' own Aliens-fanatic Max Scoville to go over just what's wrong with ACM, and whether we'll ever see the full potential of an Aliens game realized.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scq50BXd9bs#ws (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scq50BXd9bs#ws)

Why is he doing a shatner impression at the start?

listen to it again lol

Nice video, good find. This game is clearly not going to win game of the year, so where do I sign up to vote it for Worst game of the year? I feel like it should win something  ;D

Quote

Will There Ever Be A Great Aliens Games?

Made by mainstream corporate devs? No.

The Aliens trilogy for the PS1 is currently the best Aliens game out there.

I would take the handles for an Aliens game. As long as SEGA would be able to give 2-3 years in time to make it with others then yes. I love the franchise and I would never do something like Gearbox did.

Quote from: Deathly_rYaN on May 01, 2013, 03:31:24 AM
The Aliens trilogy for the PS1 is currently the best Aliens game out there.

I would take the handles for an Aliens game. As long as SEGA would be able to give 2-3 years in time to make it with others then yes. I love the franchise and I would never do something like Gearbox did.

I disagree. Take a look at AVP2 and Capcom AVP arcade.

Indeed, I hope the upcoming one is the best yet.