58 people found this review helpful
Not Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 22.7 hrs on record
Posted: 1 May, 2013 @ 9:53am
Updated: 25 Nov, 2013 @ 3:52pm

This game has no content. The only things to do are PVP, Crafting, or kill monsters. The safe zones are gigantic, meaning everybody stays in the safe zones to craft better gear before heading out. Which means there is literally no pvp going on. I have been wandering around the game world outside of the safe zone for the past 3 hours of real time and I have yet to see a single other person. I can fight monsters, but those only spawn from specific monster spawners, and never leave their camps. Meaning 80% of the game world is empty space, which sucks because the game world is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ENORMOUS. In that 3 hours I've made it from one coast to another, but still not a single person. Why don't you craft then pothead? Believe me, crafting is why I bought the game. Too bad the gathering boils down to, point at this resource node, click 1 time, now afk for 15 minutes. The making items crafting is just as tedious and boring. Queue up a bunch of stuff, click once, come back in 5 minutes. That also makes it frustrating because I have no attachment to any of the gear I have acquired so far. I didn't have to really "do anything" to get it, so I don't really care if somebody kills me and takes it. Hell at this point I'd enjoy the human interaction. This game wants to be Ultima Online, but with a development team 48 strong, that is as likely to happen as aliens are to crown me emperor of earth. I don't wish any ill will to AV, but when you release an mmo you have to come correct. You cannot release something that is 10 steps backwords from the prequel to the game you are releasing. Always Moving Forward should be every game developers motto.
This was written almost a year go right after release, so I have no idea on the current state of the game, if it even exists as such.
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7 Comments
Captain Serious 25 Nov, 2013 @ 3:51pm 
Woot! Thumbs up!:fingers:
RIP David Lynch 25 Nov, 2013 @ 3:43pm 
Hey look at that, a thumbs up/down system. Thanks for caring valve <3
RIP David Lynch 1 May, 2013 @ 7:20pm 
I feel your pain Obsidian. I'd had to think anybody thought I was endorsing this pile of shit, but I had to warn others.
Captain Serious 1 May, 2013 @ 7:14pm 
Wish Steam would give us a thumbs up / down system when writing these reviews. Because I sure as fuck would never recommend Aliens Colonial Marines, but I HAD to write and warn others.
Mecha Tofu Pirate 1 May, 2013 @ 5:19pm 
He also "recommends" Spore and Brink!
AxeMan808 1 May, 2013 @ 5:12pm 
It's funny, because the heading says you 'recommend' it. heh.
RIP David Lynch 1 May, 2013 @ 3:41pm 
I gave this game 21 hours worth of chance. Learn from my folly.