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*Sigh*

I could go on about this game and what it fails at, I could rant on. But I am not.

This game ranks as one of the biggest disappointment I have ever experienced in my life, I truly thought this was going to be the definitive and most enjoyable Aliens game to date. Not only did it fail spectacularly at that but the developers fucking lied through their teeth in their Demo/Preview videos on this game. Watch the below video to get an idea of how bad this thing is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3z2qVebxlUo

What are your thoughts on this game?

I thought the game was nice. Good looking, Plenty of action.....So far no bugs.....Who do you think it's bad?

A few negative points then.

1. The game literally says "Fuck You" to the lore and the games fans on several occasions, and when one of the more likable characters points this out it is dismissed as "another story" or just ignored, I won't say exactly what happens to avoid spoilers.

2. The Alien AI, and to an extent the Human AI, is often laughable and dumb. Too often the Aliens will freeze in place or refuse to attack me at times, the devs claimed that the Aliens would take full advantage of the setting to attack the player, such as running into vents and hiding in the dark. But they never do, they almost always charge directly at the player. They Enemy Human AI is somewhat passable, but they tend to have god like aim and reaction times and often they were able to kill me by shooting through several walls.

3. If you move forward too fast for the games liking it will teleport your allies directly in front of you in a blue flash, which is annoying.

4. The boss battles are for the most part boring and pathetic cliches of other boss battles, the final battle is literally trying to sneak past it while pushing button, and the sneaking mechanics are almost broken. Another is simply to let it charge you, sidestep and shoot it in the back. The only boss battle that I found to be actually very fun was where you took control of a Power Loader and fought a bigger Alien in melee combat, I did enjoy smashing that Alien apart and your blows felt powerful.

I am not saying the game is completely terrible, it can be fun and the Multiplayer is enjoyably, but in comparison to what the Devs and promotional videos told us we were going to get, this is a big letdown. I feel that if you are not a fan of the Aliens series then you will find this to be a sub par game.

*EDIT* Another annoying thing I might point out is that several times, such as the final boss battle, the game will hit an error forcing you to restart. An example is that the final boss glitched out and made it impossible to defeat it since it was frozen, forcing me to restart the entire boss battle.

Money in a perfect world is made by making quality things and having them sell by being good. NOT falsely advertising something and then selling a shitty game. It's like the WarZ scandal.

To be honest, I really did call it. (In my head of course, when several other members of Foundation bet against me.)

Frankly, it's based off a movie. It isn't movie LICENSED, but it is based off a movie that everybody liked... which means it's going to be one of the worst games ever conceived.

The one exception to this is probably Riddick, since that movie was small, and the game had a lot of leverage to move around in. Other than that, original ideas just work better. I know it sounded new and would increase to the lore, and it had original concepts, but this was my reaction to the advertising:


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I've seen SSoHPKC Play it, Seemed too much like Dead Space 2 + Battlefield 3, I Don't think i should bother getting it, I have too many games anyway (Around £7000)

So far I've seen 2 people play the game.
Devildoggamer, (Marine), and a Brit called PCgamer999......They both seem to like the game so far.
And I've played it....It's not bad.

Totalbiscuit talks about the controversy surrounding the game. Starts at 0:33ish.
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Angry Joe's Review, big fan of the Aliens series.
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Another review.
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Very damming look at the comparisoon between the "Demo" (E3) and the Full game.
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Metacritic of A:CM on the PC.
http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/alien ... al-marines

Of course at the end of the day people can and will like games that most people don't like.

That angry review was hilarious xD

Played 3 missions... Ol' known goddamn CoD, but aliens replace nazis zombies.
It's impossible to play on my laptop... Even on low graphics. Thanks god i had super computer.