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Aliens: Colonial Marines

Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2013 9:01 pm
by championvillage
Anyone picking this game up? I've had it on pre-order and it's released tonight.

It's got some very L4D-style looking multiplayer, 4 marines vs 4 aliens - what look like spitters, chargers, boomers etc. Could be interesting!

Re: Aliens: Colonial Marines

Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2013 6:13 pm
by championvillage
I just played through the campaign. Forget I said anything, it's balls.

Re: Aliens: Colonial Marines

Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2013 6:22 pm
by MegaYoda
For £30 I'll give it a miss

Re: Aliens: Colonial Marines

Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2013 11:48 pm
by Schlack

Re: Aliens: Colonial Marines

Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2013 12:07 am
by championvillage
Yeah, it's quite honestly unbelievable how bad it is. It turns out lots of the preview footage from last year (that looked good) wasn't even in the game.

My high hopes were smashed.

Re: Aliens: Colonial Marines

Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2013 6:37 pm
by MudShark
Now that is a damning review. Did you not read that before you parted with £30?

Re: Aliens: Colonial Marines

Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2013 10:16 pm
by championvillage
I pre-ordered when, I'm pretty sure, it was supposed to be good. I don't know, maybe I was drunk. That's as good an excuse as any....

Lesson learned. Should have cancelled the moment I realised there was a release day review embargo.

Check out this video of the show demo graphics compared to the release. Not saying anything of the shoddy gameplay, AI, story or anything else...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3z2qVebxlUo

Re: Aliens: Colonial Marines

Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2013 11:51 pm
by Slartibartfast
Never mind Muddy , he bought Tetris 3D for the great graphics!

Re: Aliens: Colonial Marines

Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2013 8:37 am
by Schlack
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/02 ... ore-142273

seems like there was a shit load of trouble down old mill during production.

thankfully gearbox finsihed borderlands 2 well and were right not to focus on this pile of poo