TechRaptor - Last year I played through Aliens: Colonial Marines. Like many out there I hated the game; as a shooter it was unrefined and boring, as an Aliens game it was awful. It felt like it was made by a team who had never watched the James Cameron classic and who had no understanding of the Alien universe. This was made even more upsetting due to the expectations created by misleading pre-release footage, and the developer constantly professing a love and respect for the franchise.
If you've got an Alien itch you can't quite scratch until Alien: Rolumus releases, GameSpew has rounded up the best Alien games to tide you over.
Fans (myself included) are clamouring for a direct sequel to this fantastic game and hope for an Alien: Isolation 2. But will this great game ever get another instalment?
Also included are Alien: Isolation, Dead Island Definitive Edition, Outlast 2, and more.
Good month imo. I'll play Gotham Knights and House of Ashes. I'm finishing up Disco E on Steam right now - that's a superb game.
Fool me once shame on you fool me twice shame on me.... In the case of Aliens I can't help but be fooled because the last great Aliens game was on Atari jaguar. That's was like 96? Damn!!!
It's sad that Colonial Marines was a flop. That is really the only thing I wanted to see in a game from the franchise. It was always my favorite part of AVP and AVP 2 on the PC back in the day.
Not to mention Aliens with the colonial marines is by far the best one.
That said this game looks like it will capture the essence of the original Alien pretty well via that type of gameplay.
It kind of puzzles me how all the attempts at properly adapting Aliens entirely misinterpreted what the movie was about.
Aliens was about desperation, survival, and escape just as much as the original film was. The only big difference being that there were more Xenomorphs and humans for them to kill. They were always in control until the characters decided to flip the "**** it" switch and blow the place up.
Heck, most everything since the main films forgot that the Xenomorphs are actually supposed to be intelligent and powerful predators, not tactless fodder.
I hope people realize Gearbox has NOTHING to do with this. It's the same franchise but that's about the ONLY similarities it will have to A:CM.
Sega just needs to team up with Santa Monica Studios or some other company to actually make their games worth it.