Aliens: Colonial Marines takes a popular IP and converts it into a soulless and dull shooter that continually mugs for the camera but lacks anything that made the movie great. On a technical level, the game is plagued by graphics that looked dated on release, lazy and reused maps which include warping to the next location when the developers apparently gave up on adding hallways, guns that are no fun to use and the lamest fire/explosion effects I've seen in a game in a long while. Beyond that, the plot is dull and often asinine, the NPCs you'll be saddled with the whole game do nothing to endear themselves and the bullet-sponge enemies make the combat a dull plod rather than the tight action you saw when the Colonial Marines first delved into the underbelly of Hadley's Hope in Aliens. Oh, that's when you're actually fighting xenomorphs since you'll spend at least equal time shooting Weyland-Yutani mooks who are as impervious to bullets as the aliens. Throughout you'll see locations from the Aliens film, find 'legendary' weapons named after characters (that are worse than your stock weapons), see film characters as NPCs and discover Easter eggs but all of it feels like "Eh? EH? See how this is an Aliens game? See??" rather than immersing you in it.

There really isn't anything to recommend about this game. There's better shooters and better games for capturing the Aliens experience. This probably won't be the worst game you've ever played but rather one of the more disappointing.

Aliens: Colonial Marines takes a popular IP and converts it into a soulless and dull shooter that continually mugs for the camera but lacks anything that made the movie great. On a technical level, the game is plagued by graphics that looked dated on release, lazy and reused maps which include warping to the next location when the developers apparently gave up on adding hallways, guns that are no fun to use and the lamest fire/explosion effects I've seen in a game in a long while. Beyond that, the plot is dull and often asinine, the NPCs you'll be saddled with the whole game do nothing to endear themselves and the bullet-sponge enemies make the combat a dull plod rather than the tight action you saw when the Colonial Marines first delved into the underbelly of Hadley's Hope in Aliens. Oh, that's when you're actually fighting xenomorphs since you'll spend at least equal time shooting Weyland-Yutani mooks who are as impervious to bullets as the aliens. Throughout you'll see locations from the Aliens film, find 'legendary' weapons named after characters (that are worse than your stock weapons), see film characters as NPCs and discover Easter eggs but all of it feels like "Eh? EH? See how this is an Aliens game? See??" rather than immersing you in it. There really isn't anything to recommend about this game. There's better shooters and better games for capturing the Aliens experience. This probably won't be the worst game you've ever played but rather one of the more disappointing.