Aliens: Colonial Marines

[odin]

Has anybody played this game yet? what are your thoughts on it story-wise? from what I have seen the game is terrible and the story screws up with the Aliens legacy and what bothers me is that it was approved to be cannon by Fox....ugh..did they even look at the games story before approving it? not to mention the freaking plot twist that they put in the story where in a certain part you save a survivor from the original Aliens movie and it is not who you would logically think it be, NO!! it just opens up too many questions, want to know who it is? it is

Corporal Hicks......yea....apparently he did not die in Aliens 3, he was not even in the escape pod with Ripley, Bishop and Newt but somebody else, that is stretching it quite a bit.

  here is a trailer of the game and an honest review from one of my favorite game reviewers out there.

 

 

 

 

It really angers me when companies take a beloved franchise and mistreat it as much as they did here and give empty promises to hype people up, I wouldn't be as mad as I am if the story was not approve by fox but it still shows that it is a crappy game from what i have seen and played.

Edited February 14, 2013 by odin

[lost unit]

i was gonna get this but when i viewed in on youtube it was very dark and lost interest quickly and licked the looked of dead space 3.

[Matt Bellamy]

Yeah, I REALLY feel like a sucker, since I bought the collectors edition.

Normally I like Gearbox... But when they admit that they had farmed the game out to a third party developer... You know it wasn't going to be top grade, despite some of the early demos and images looking fantastic.

There was maybe only 2 or 3 very small moments where there was any kind of tension. I only had fun playing it, as I played it Co-Op with my brother, and naturally we made fun of the game as we played.

The graphics sucked, and so did the voice acting. And as mentioned before, the plot was also lazy and very underwhelming. All it had going for it was the hype. And anyone who paid attention to early reviews knew better.

This sadly SCREAMS one of the same issues Duke Nukem Forever had. 6 years ago when they started developing the game, the graphics might have been good. 4 Years ago, if it would have followed a normal game schedule, it probably would have gotten a bit better marks, but still be totally forgettable. Probably would have been a bit better if Gearbox themselves handled it... But again, farmed to a third party developer.

Bringing it back into Gamestop before it devalues too much. Maybe get some of my money back.

I have no sympathy for the games industry when they shovel us drenn like this.

[Mirabilis]

I believe I've posted some things on this a while back. I am a DIE HARD Aliens fan, and know all about the Xenomorph and it's life cycle. I've been waiting for this game sense it's first issue in game informers announced it. I was one of the first to cry out at it's apparent cancel as well. I too could sit here and bash this game, I preorded the Collectors Edition years in advance, and it was T-E-R-R-I-B-L-E.

 As Angry Joe points out (I too like his reviews) you only battle the Aliens about three times in the whole game, the A.I. is completely retarded and the whole situation with the survivor? Was that even necessary? I don't know why they couldn't of made it a new marine or of had a different marine call out the distress from the get go instead of using the character they had. AVP 3 was much better then this bullcrap of a game, and as he said, just because you own the rights to it, doesn't mean you can treat the story like crap you will loose your fans.

 This game had so much potential and it was nothing but shere stupidity and a mockery of it's own legacy. The new xeno's aren't given any back story, the characters are terrible and never help you out, you don't even get to use the Smart-Gun except for one small fight. The game Demo and the original trailer was much more promising and had a lot more character development then the characters in the whole game. It's could of been infinitely better with simple touch ups or removing elements from the game. I could go on forever but Joe pretty much pointed out all it's faults in his review.

 It ticks me off that one of my favorite legacies is literally selling itself short and destroying itself over greed, complete utter stupidity, lack of creativity, and no respect for the story or it's fans. There's no respect for it's own legacy I could of created a much better game than this and it would of been one everyone would of enjoyed. not to tut my own horn, but why do you ask? Because I care so much about the legacy I know where the boundaries are what can be expanded on, and what areas to stay away from, boundaries they obviously don't respect at all and are willing to cross for an extra buck.

Edited August 5, 2013 by Mirabilis

[Matt Bellamy]

 

 I believed I posted some thing on this way back. I am a DIE HARD Aliens fan, and know all about the xenomorph and related details. I've been waiting for this game sense it's first issue in game informers announced it. I was one of the first to cry out at it's apparent cancel as well. I too could sit here and bash this game, I preorded the Collectors Edition years in advance, and it was T-E-R-R-B-L-E. As Angry Joe points out (I too like his reviews) you only battle the Aliens about three times in the whole game, the A.I. is completely retarded and the whole situation with the survivor? Was that even necessary? I don't know why they couldn't of made it a new marine or of had a different marine call out the distress from the get go instead of the character they had. AVP 3 was much better then this bullcrap of a game, and as he said, just because you own the rights to it, doesn't mean you can treat the story like crap you will loose your fans.

 This game had so much potential and it was nothing but shere stupidity and a mockery of it's own legacy. The new xeno's aren't given any back story, the characters are terrible and never help you out, you don't even get to use the Smart-Gun except for one small fight. The game Demo and the original trailer was much more promising and had a lot more character development then the characters in the whole game. It's could of been infinity better with smaller details and looks. I could go on forever as Joe said he could too, it ticks me off that one of my favorite legacies is literally selling itself short and destroying itself over greed, complete utter stupidity and lack of creativity.

There's no respect for it's legacy I could of created a much better game than this and it would of been one everyone would of enjoyed. not to tut my own horn, but why do you ask? Because I care so much about the legacy I know where the boundaries are what can be expanded on, and what areas to stay away from, boundaries they obviously don't respect at all and are willing to cross for an extra buck.

 

I think the thing that pissed me off the most, was the hype videos that Gearbox put out of their lead staff saying " Oh, we're huge aliens fans, and we wanted to make a great aliens game." Blah blah blah.

 

Except they didn't WANT to actually make it, because they have Borderlands now.

 

There was a great article posted on kotaku.com about the creation of the game from some sources... And it just screams failure.

 

http://kotaku.com/5986694/from-dream-to-disaster-the-story-of-aliens-colonial-marines

[Mirabilis]

 I know exactly what you mean, it's like they went out of their way just to destroy the legacy deliberately. Saying they were going to make it an awesome game, that would be remembered for years and do everything perfectly as to not ruin the films and give the fans what they wanted. Complete bullcrap. I don't know who gave the ok on it and why Fox approved it as the direct sequel to the film. It's a horrible story that creates more plot-holes, and problems and truthfully it doesn't add anything to the legacy at all, only spits in it's face.

 I am so tired of Hollywood jerks who just use legacies like this and the terminator, and other iconical masterpieces, just for a quick buck and cash cow. They are to be respected, they are culturally significant and should be added on and expanded not sold short or treated liked this, I haven't been this ticked off with Fox sense AVP-R and the Predalien Queen? Really? Are you kidding me?! Any aliens fan knows the Queen is the only "Pure-blooded" Xeno!! There is no such thing as a Queen Hybrid!! UGH!!!! lol sorry just really made me mad when they ruined something that I love so much and don't want to see shredded apart for greed.

[Salkafar]

"Corporal Hicks......yea....apparently he did not die in Aliens 3, he was not even in the escape pod with Ripley, Bishop and Newt but somebody else"

Hicks was in the escape pod with Newt, Bishop and Ripley. He died, impaled on a support brace. Never even knew what hit him.

So... someone else? Who then?

Edited August 5, 2013 by Salkafar

[Larz Zahn]

In the comics newt and Hicks survived. She's seriously wacked and tramatized and Hicks and newt were in a relation ship. How needed up was this??

[Mirabilis]

Yeah but the comics weren't cannon with the Fox films, the space jockey even turned out to be a different species because in Prometheus the engineers are completely different then they are portrayed to be in the comics. Yet another film that really ticked me off by Fox, that I was really excited about and eager to see.

Well according to Xenopedia two colonist woke him up: Samwell Stone, and Turk (a pun off of Burke?) because the ship had been illegally intercepted and boarded by the Weland-Yutani PMCs who had previously taken the civilian transport ship the Legato. A firefight with the intruders erupted in the hypersleep chamber, and the crossfire ignited the fire aboard the ship, leading to the evacuation of the occupied hypersleep chambers aboard an EEV. Before the EEV launched, Turk was knocked into Hicks' open cryotube and sealed inside, and was subsequently launched aboard the departing EEV. It was Turk who was killed and later mistaken to be Hicks on Fiorina 161.

Doesn't make sense why would he be wearing only sleeping short's though and no shirt...or how did his dna matched that of Hick's... It's stupid crap like this that just ruins the legacy and ticks me off. Why couldn't of they of just left the film characters alone and make their own up? They could of easily of made up a new marine or different marines for this, it's not rocket science! lol

Edited August 5, 2013 by Mirabilis

[Larz Zahn]

Holy crap. I said needed but i meant messed!! Haha!

[Mirabilis]

 It's all good it happens besides I think we all knew what you meant lol

Edited August 5, 2013 by Mirabilis