In one of the biggest surprises in the last few days, the recently released Aliens: Colonial Marines is receiving almost universally negative reviews across all major websites. It is practically unheard of for a AAA title to receive such universally bad press upon release with all but a handful of reviews displaying either middling or extremely negative scores. What is more surprising however is the apparent duplicity in early promotions, and the stark contrast in actual content.
Too many games aren't given a second shot. We at VGU choose which games we would love to see receive a sequel.
The Saboteur - criminally underrated and a fantastic mechanic of bringing colour back to Nazi-occupied Paris.
The article lists Bulletstorm, Sleeping Dogs, and Aliens: Colonial Marines.
Player 2 takes some quiet time to look back at some of the most hyped failures of the past 10 years.
Can't argue with any of those really, but I would add Resident Evil Operation Racoon City and Metal Gear Survive to that list. Both terrible games from good franchises.
Bulletstorm, I actually liked the gameplay but the atrocious writing and characters made me despise the game by the end of it.
Thanks to a bustling mod community on Steam, Gearbox's Aliens: Colonial Marines actually has a stellar multiplayer experience to offer these days.
This game was just a mess on release and didnt work for a whole day on pc.
They sure did after looking back at the first video walkthrough for this game.
http://www.youtube.com/watc...
Even the rain was more detailed than the rain in the final release, and that is a lot to say.
http://www.youtube.com/watc...
Now they want to sell us 4 DLC packs? Well they ain't getting a dime from me.
At the time the Demo was made...it wasn't a lie. After it the game was rebuilt and the demo became redundant.
Gearbox have to set their ****ing priorities
The Aliens vs Predator game that came out was better than this shit.
The game went from "high" PC settings to low settings, it just doesn't look like a close to maximized current gen title, especially given its reputation (the demo looked amazing). The added textures, lighting, and shaders looked to have gotten stripped from final release, like they made the demo then realized they didn't have the funding to continue it a decided to keep the lower quality consistent throughout
Unless there is something I'm missing, there seems to have been a conscious downgrade