Aliens: Colonial Marines

Good lord! I didn't expect it to get this much trashing. I'm actually glad, as I hated them ret-conning Hadley's Hope's destruction, and if this sinks then it discredits that.

Even from these videos, and the reviews I've read, I have to admit that I'm pretty disappointed. I mean, I was following in this game when they were talking about putting it on PS2. So I waited... And I waited some more.

I'm not asking for game of the year. Just a solid "Aliens" experience. Like I said I'll give this a try, and my being what I am, I am going to try to find the best in it.

It's not looking good right now, though...

Well I dunno if I should play now or wait for my friends, I dunno if you can do multiplayer with 3 players or not, anyway I've been waiting for a long time for this game too so I hope that even with the bad reviews it's still not that bad...least there's still Bioshock infinite to look forward to

Just bought it.! Is it any good?

Why ask that if you already bought it? Play it now and judge it yourself.

Might wait for a price drop for this game before i even buy this one

until then i'll play AVP 2.

I played it last night...so far I swear I've spent more time killing Wayland Yutani hit men than I have any aliens

From what I hear, they're actually more fun to fight than the aliens, which are just so much endless bullet fodder.

Been watching some of the guys playing through it, and it honestly doesn't seem as horrific as some have said, which is good.

Played this a little last night. It sucks. I called Gamestop to see how much I could get if I returned it and they're saying $23. Having me like......

Should have read them reviews before purchasing.

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Already a patch for it

General

General user interface improvements.
Various performance improvements.
Fixed issue where a door may not function properly if a Xeno was killed while opening it.
Addressed issue where players could become stuck in a close encounter after killing a Lurker that had pounced them.
Fixed collision issue where bullets would not pass through certain open doorways.
Fixed an issue related to clients incorrectly interrupting Xeno melee encounters.
Addressed an issue where doors would sometimes not open properly.
Addressed an exploit where players could melee while throwing a grenade or placing a claymore.
Fixed some collision detection issues that could result from a close encounter.
Prevented campaign pop-ups from appearing outside of campaign.

Campaign

Fixed an issue that could prevent NPCs from getting on the elevator in the Sulaco.
NPCs no longer attempt to open doors while being welded.
Fixed issue where Raven could sometimes pass through welded door.
Implementing a message to warn players that campaign progress will be overwritten if they try to start an offline campaign game from within the co-op campaign UI.
Adjusted the distance between players before they're warped to the location of furthest player in co-op.
Fixed issue where torch would sometimes appear incorrectly to co-op clients.
Fixed issue where difficulty could sometimes become stuck incorrectly after switching modes.
Fixed issue where co-op player would not recover properly after being saved from a close encounter.
Fixed issue where Russian players could not drop into a co-op match in some missions.
Updated late-game close encounter moment to disable player input, which could cause them to become stuck.

Such a shame.

Considering the rumours that Gearbox didn't even do most of the SP campaign is telling.

I guess we still have AVP2, a fantastic made game and still has not been replicated.

I always hated the decision to continue the story from Aliens.

I thought the last AVP game, while not being exceptional, was still a solid game, particularly playing as a marine. I thought they captured the atmosphere of the movies well.

But yeah, AVP still sets the standard.

Originally posted by Darth Martin
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Hah. This game is ****ed.

I think it's safe to say that anyone who bought the game fell victim to false advertising. If you bought Colonial Marines for the campaign, you've been bamboozled.

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Rumours of lying, outsourcing and co-developing just make Gearbox look worse and worse:

http://www.destructoid.com/gearbox-lied-about-aliens-from-e3-demo-to-retail-product-244966.phtml?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter#GCQKpdqCMj9EoEov.16

What's odd with Gearbox is they go out of their way to make Borderlands look good but yet they pull this nonsense.