Aliens: Colonial Marines (Review)

This isn't a game so bad, it makes you rage or cry. This is a game so bad, you have to ask yourself, "What the hell happened?"

The idea itself, not a bad idea. You shoot Xenomorphs in a FPS, where in Competitive Mode, you can play as a xenomorph, or a marine. It sounds great, until you play it.

Most the gameplay is just navigating through spaceships/planets, then shoot some aliens and that was about it. I felt like i could've beaten a level in 1 minute. Sometimes the enemy ai is a complete dumbass, or just flat-out broken. ​I remember that one time while I was playing it, one of the enemy ai xenomorphs kept attacking nothing. Another was when the ai just stood there, looking at me, doing nothing. That speaks enough for the enemies, but what about everything else?

The graphics look so outdated even by 2013 standards. This looked like either an early 360 release, or an original Xbox (from 2001) release. I've played PS2 games with better graphics and that released in 2000! This was released in 2013, and looked unpolished.

The story is as barebones as it gets. It tries to connect to the first Alien movie from 1979, but it felt like the only thing they did with the characters was just using their names and dropping references to the movie, but the last time I played was about 3 years ago, so I might be wrong.

However, this is not a game that deserves a fate worse than death. It deserves to be at least checked out by fans. And yes, I might have been critical and very negative, but that didn't say they didn't try.