Going to go off for a minute about this.
The Queen battle was just horrendous. It's like they tried to rip off AvP '99, but did so in the most horrible and non-entertaining way possible.
The first time my buddy and I played it on co-op, we hit all the switches, got the Queen on the track, and the ejector thing clipped right through her legs. No joke.
The worst "boss" attempt in game I've ever seen, Aliens or not. The fact that it
is Aliens just makes it worse.
A proper Queen battle in a game like this would have to go something like dis: the marines fight their way into the hive against sporadic Aliens (to rescue people or what have you,) but as soon as they near the egg chamber/Queen, a massive wave comes at them from every angle. This forces the marines to engage the warriors and allows the Queen to start tearing away from her egg sack.
The wave could culminate in the royal guards, being faster + smarter + tougher and very deadly. These would buy the Queen time to become mobile, and she would enter a game of cat-and-mouse with the marines (who should now be ammo-strapped, the entire point of the waves.) The eggs in the room would also open unless destroyed, so facehuggers (without goddamned QTE sequences, but more AvP 1 style) would be another threat for the marines to deal with.
She would avoid taking direct gunfire, and use her environment and any surviving Royal Guards to her advantage to try and kill the players. Of course, this would all be in a game with more dynamic choices and less scripting, so you could possibly kill the Queen here or fail and have to do another sequence, just like Aliens.
Sigh. I'm just disappointing myself here, must stahp.
