Aliens: Colonial Marines Review

Game over man! Game over!

This game is terrible. Just...Just trust me on this. Avoid it. buggy game with terrible lighting, stupid A.I. from your allies and the enemy...Those things might be forgivable but it's just so damn boring! Honestly, save your money and go buy any Aliens vs Predator game or better still. Grab your DS and buy Aliens: Infestation. Seriously, Infestation is a far superior game in every aspect. Your marines have perma-death and there are a finite total amount of marines to encounter during the game. Each with their own personality. This helps each encounter come with a sense of fear and tension as opposed to just popping back two minutes to the last checkpoint. It shares a great deal with Metroid, which in itself is inspired by Alien. It's arguably the best Aliens game to date.

I cannot understand why Colonial Marines failed so badly...I mean it's textbook! You make some aliens and then you have them jump out at you...Not run slowly upright towards you in the same comical animation. That is, of course, when you actually fight aliens...You spend a good chunk of Colonial Marines not even fighting aliens but humans. Other than a couple of nods to the Aliens film, some good, some bad...I cannot even recall a single remarkable thing about the game. Pulse rifle had good sound effects I guess? As a result, I am forced to give Aliens: Colonial Marines...