Aliens: Colonial Marines - just got done giving it a try...

a shame that Vasquez isnt on board..

those sound like things that will kill me, being a guy who deosn;t react well too bull&%$#, but i will get it asap nonetheless

i didnt buy it - had a go on a mates pc yesterday - played deathmatch for a bit and then had a go at coop - to me coop is more fun, shame his headset was busted, probably some great dynamics to be had with designated motion tracker members of the team '11oclock' '7oclock' etc. i know what you mean though O'neal is really really annoying. in this game i really wanted an unashamed rip-off of Left for Dead 2 co-op campaign mode - with teamwork being the main thing, scenery and story secondary - but they've shot themselves in the foot by attaching the game to 'canon' events in the series - and thus their expansions will be limited to that ... limit. had it been set 50 years later on a random colony planet that got infested.. well the stuff they could make up for that would be not limited - be more fun to write and all the rest. L4D2 was clever enough to not cram all the players into tiny spaces (or level 'corridors') [i]all the time[/i]. To me, this means their NPC AI does not have to be as perfect - and is why the NPCs in A:CL are more obviously crap. Their AI writers were't as good as what they needed and it shows. (friendlies blocking line-of-sight is a real thing in combat, but it's not so bad if they are[i] actually shooting at something[/i]) !SPOILERS? so i glazed over the full story on some 'walkthrough' vids,,, not sure what to think ... GEORGE LUCAS EFFECT? yeh i blame him, even though he has enough mud slung at him to make a small planet - it seems writers and publishers have failed to understand what that mud means to the very fans they are so desperately trying to cater to ('cater to' not 'please'). They most certainly understand money though. Franchise rape is not really a new thing, granted, so it can't all be pinned on Lucas, i just feel that 'The Phantom Menace' has lowered the bar on such a level (on many levels) that it's effect is still underestimated. It's like a beacon for acceptable mediocrity; a permission certificate to deface famous works of art in the name of 'fanservice'. The floodgates have opened and are filling up all the giant plotholes with endless amounts of fanmoney. Enough analogies for a minute. The thing i'm most worried about it the shallowness of writing that is happening. Fans love lightsabers = everything with lightsabers is awesome = lets put lightsabers EVERYWHERE! Fans love Xenomorphs and the characters from 'Aliens' = everything with Xenos = awesome + bring characters from 'Aliens' back = more awesome. So, no depth in the additions to the franchises, its replaced with references to past glories. Back to analogies; i'm preaching to the converted here so no need to rant on. [center][b]SPOILERS REMOVED BY SNORKELBOTTOM[/b] Seriously, the games been out a day[/center]

Thanks Gigerfan. I have to say I agree with you and its good to know where this thing is going storywise. So far all I know is I keep getting killed and ONeal is an a**bite. I've tried fragging him but he never dies .lol.

This game could have been so much better. I'm just after finishing it and to be honest, I'm not happy. There are some good parts but they are few and far between. I got attacked by 1 facehugger the whole game, 1. Don't get me wrong I loved seeing some of Hadleys Hope and the Derelict but thats about it. Im going to play Alien Trilogy for the PS1 its far better.

We are not locking this thread because any rules have been broken, tho tbh are the spoilers really necessary [b]gigerfan[/b]. We have opened a thread in the video game section of Scified, in which we would like those that have played the game to post their opinions, so we can gauge your opinion as a community, here is the link (remember if your a member here, you are a member on Scified and all our other forums)... [center][url=http://www.scified.com/community/forums/topic/103][b]Aliens: Colonial Marines - Have Your Say[/b][/url][/center]