Ships Ahoy - Aliens: Colonial Marines [Feb 12, 2013, 10:24 am ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
SEGA announces that Aliens: Colonial Marines is now available worldwide, offering a new first-person shooter set in the Aliens sci-fi setting for Windows, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3, with a WiiU edition coming at some future date. Here's the official launch trailer for the game, and here's word:
SEGA® of America, Inc., SEGA® Europe Ltd., Gearbox Software and Twentieth Century Fox Consumer Products® today announced that its highly buzzed-about blockbuster Aliens™: Colonial Marines video game is now available on store shelves across the globe for PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system, Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and Windows® PC. A release date for the announced Wii U™ version will be revealed at a later time.The critical reception for the game so far has been pretty negative, and Eurogamer notes a this tweet and this one from sleuth superannuation pointing to this post from last year that he disregarded at the time. This includes a comment from someone claiming to be an ex-developer on the project saying at the time development had "been a total train wreck," and that Gearbox was only developing the multiplayer portion of a game primarily designed by TimeGate Studios.
Pitting players against the universe’s deadliest killing machine, the Xenomorph, Aliens: Colonial Marines is the official video game continuation to one of Sci-Fi’s most renowned movie franchises. As the authentic addition to the ALIENS canon, the game’s stunning visuals and adrenaline pumping action will deliver a breathtakingly immersive four-player drop-in drop-out cooperative campaign and four expansive competitive multiplayer modes – Escape, Team Deathmath, Survivor and Extermination.
avianflu wrote on Feb 12, 2013, 12:29:I LOVED that game. I kept hoping the games after that would be even close to that level of goodness. And I liked it also for the story and how you played each race. For instance how with alien you started out as a little crawler, and worked your way up the lifecycle chain.
You have to go back to the 1999 "A vs P" for a game that got the atmosphere and horror correctly:
Every 10 steps was a strategic decision and the aliens literally waited in the dark and then lunged. Only problem is that there was no save option in the game.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIYfU-j-gf4
Edit: I may be thinking about AVP2, not sure.
nin wrote on Feb 12, 2013, 09:53:Isn't that kinda what's done at the desert bus fundraiser?
"Coal" gift at next xmas steam sale.
THATS what we should do...we'll have a game club where you have to play through as much of a game as you can, only we'll pick the worst one possible.Whoever gets the farthest (with screenshot) "wins".
Dr. D. Schreber wrote on Feb 12, 2013, 11:19:Then this must be a GREAT GAME! RUN OUT AND BUY IT NAO!
I've never heard of most of these and the ones I have heard of are of such journalistic integrity and competence that I assume the opposite of whatever they say is true.
(yes I get what you are saying, but you can at least get a general tone out of reviews, and a feel for if its a category you will like. And in this case, the metacritic scores from PLAYERS are actually WORSE than the ones from the all these uncommon bad reviews, if you can believe that)
This comment was edited on Feb 14, 2013, 03:44.
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