Quote from: DC on Sep 11, 2013, 09:22:44 PM
QuoteHow were they not badasses in Aliens? The first time they get their asses kicked because they weren't allowed to use their guns. The next time they were, and about four people took out maybe twenty Aliens.
It was closer to like 12. The grenade scene in the ducts doesn't really count. And when they went into the hive during the first firefight after killing the chestburster, it was 12 Marines that went in, and only 3 that came out.
Not too sure where you guys are getting these numbers, we never see how many Aliens are killed off screen (when we're shown the marines firing) and we're never given any idea how many are actually killed, weather it was 6, 12, 20, or 30 we'll never actually know.
Video game portrayals of the USCM can't be taken into account because for the most part you're never with any other marines. In AVP10 there are very few instances where as The Rookie you play with 1 or 2 allied bots, and they tend to last a good while until being scripted to die or scripted to stay behind. The marines in the marine campaign are killed off to give you the Doom 3 lone survivor feel.
If you watch the marines fight the xeno's in AVP10 (you can do this as the predator) the marines win a little more than of the time, even when outnumbered in some cases. That's the best example we'll get of unscripted (movie or game) marine vs xenomorph combat.
All that being said the Predator is a completely different enemy and has completely different combat characteristics. I'd say the USCM is better equipped to fight the Predator(s) than they are xenomorphs. Motion trackers, infra red, auto tracking hand held and stationary machine guns, and that's just the stuff in the movie, it's been a while since I read the technical manual but I'm sure there are some more goodies in there.
Since the marines have some of the best on tech screen in a sci fi movie I think itd be a great hunt to watch, and a formidable/challenging one for the Predator(s)