Comments on: Aliens: Colonial Marines Review

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 05:08:19 +0000

Finally got a hold of this game, and oh boy, 5 is a generous score indeed, at least on PC, it’s your run of the mill consolized bastardized FPS, it’s not pretty, if anything it looks like a 2007ish game, making black critters attack you from dark areas may sound scary but it’s just annoying, the weapon upgrade system is preposterous for this type of game, the health regen thing is annoying and the story is so so.

It’s not a terrible game, it can be somewhat fun if you like FPS’s in general, it’s just, so forgettable.

By: joe

joe — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 05:14:45 +0000

The old alien game look a he’ll of slot better then this thank I looks this up now wow..

By: Willthekilla5

Willthekilla5 — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 23:53:02 +0000

So i finally rented the game and quite frankly

This review sucks this is a very fun game

By: JRHawk

JRHawk — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 21:57:42 +0000

Shit. 5/10 seems generous.

By: Darin

Darin — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 02:57:17 +0000

Erm…Sega published this game, they did not develop it, Gearbox did….have a rant at them instead.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 13:35:54 +0000

I was excited for the game when I saw the trailers but seeing that Sega was involved, I became worried. Sega has never really been a great game maker. With the exception of maybe a few of their early classics, most everything else they make has always been just ok at the most. Sonic has been milked to death and its nothing more than a rebranded Mario. The last Sega game that really ate my quarters and also kept me glued to my console I think was the Virtua Cop series….long time ago!

By: Lim3Fru1t

Lim3Fru1t — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 07:54:06 +0000

They did outsource it. They outsourced it to TimeGate Studios, and they don’t have a very successful story of games :/

By: NeoPendragon

NeoPendragon — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 04:18:39 +0000

me and another dude totally called this back when one of thier devs was mouthing off about gamers being entitled. personally space marine games are my bread and butter(i love the feel of them) but i willed my self not to get this game specifically due to Newman’s comments. maybe ill pick it up in the bargain bin to give it the BotD

Maybe the game isn’t actually badly made maybe that’s how they wanted their art interpreted and if we don’t agree then its because were not “sophisticated” enough to understand their artistic vision

By: Tony

Tony — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 00:34:48 +0000

Ive been waiting for this game for over a year…and it is quite a disapointment also the last game i preorder or pay for without trying it first…im done wasting $ on garbage!

By: willthekilla5

willthekilla5 — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 21:46:45 +0000

I’ve been excited for this game for a couple of months. Now hearing that it’s 5 out of 10 I’m a little hesitant of buying it now. I’m definitely going to rented before I fully buy it. But still it’s a shame that it’s rated so low and this is definitely going to hurt gearboxs pride and reputation.

By: tooley

tooley — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 17:43:12 +0000

Picked this up yesterday(nz) played for about 3hours. Swore a few times & im probley never gonna play it again. What a waste of money. I think the only thing i liked was the music. Last time i preorder anything before seeing a review.

By: Brian P Rubin

Brian P Rubin — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 15:50:09 +0000

Really? They put their name on Duke Nukem Forever…

By: TK Chillin

TK Chillin — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 15:47:07 +0000

Can’t believe Gearbox would want to stamp their name to this POS game.

By: BlazeR

BlazeR — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 13:00:02 +0000

Thats a shame, was actually genuinely looking forward to this game. Guess my money will be going elsewhere

By: Mugenite

Mugenite — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 12:09:18 +0000

After looking at Borderlands 2, and then this, this was exactly what I thought. They must have outsourced portions of the game to other studios.

By: B.Smith

B.Smith — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 11:45:03 +0000

Damnit. GOD damnit. I just sat down to watch Aliens the other night, prepping myself to go all first-person shooter-y on some xenos, and then I see 3′s and 4′s (of out 10) coming down the review pipeline. Why can’t any developers (at least for this generation) get the license right? I think it’s rather sad that Dead Space is outdoing the Aliens franchise at the whole “terror in space” concept.

The worst part? I can’t help but think about how the old AvP games for PC are probably better than this crap, and they’re what, 10 years old now? So sad.

You want to know how to make a good (read: scary) Aliens game? Limit the campaign to a single player, throw that character into some serious shit (think outside on LV 426 during a sandstorm, in the dark), surround him with Aliens, and arm him with nothing but a flashlight and a few clips of ammo. Isolation and ammo limitation is so crucial to first-person survival horror, and that’s exactly what this game should have been.

By: Lawrence Sonntag

Lawrence Sonntag — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 10:22:40 +0000

If it’s any consolation I’m pretty sure very little of this game was made by Gearbox. It doesn’t FEEL like Gearbox.

By: Tmadrian

Tmadrian — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 09:43:20 +0000

This is exactly what I feared was gonna come from this game. After chatting with friends and then guaranteeing it’s gonna be the game of this year where left with another crap aliens game that doesn’t cut it. I’m glad I didn’t preorder when it’s Likly to drop in price to 15 quid by the end of the month. Had such high hopes as well it being gearbox!