Aliens Review (PS5) - The Worst PS5 Exclusive To Date | Finger Guns

Sean @ FG: Shallow, uninteresting and with virtual no personality, Aliens from Sabec is one extra-terrestrial you'll send home as soon as possible.

[BrainSyphoned]

I commend you on plowing through the one name titles Sabec puts out. I hope they are at least easy platinums ;p

[Sean_FingerGuns]

Not a single one...

[CrimsonWing69]

We’ve truly reached “next-gen”.

[ScootaKuH]

A must buy surely!

[Eonjay]

Still don't believe that a 1 or 2 is a valid score if the game is functionally operational.

[Sean_FingerGuns]

We have a review policy that shows what each score means. 1 is "Terrible – The lowest score that a functional game can get. If a game is awarded a 1/10 it may have functional issues (but is still somewhat playable) or have incredible design/execution flaws (or both)."

I think if you read the review, you'll agree that the points align with a 1/10.

https://fingerguns.net/who-...

[deleted]

Good point. Superman 64 was a functional game, but very much earns a 1 out of 10.

[traumadisaster]

When I see an author in the comments it strikes me as a little weird, you had your chance to speak in the article, say what you want there. However, if you do want to add a bit of clarification like properly done here I’d suggest not saying your from the site just paste the facts like the scoring system and say looks like it was scored correctly. Then we scroll through seeing a great rebuttal and we can judge the facts without wondering if there is a hypersensitive stalking every negative comment due to a vested interest.

[Sean_FingerGuns]

@traumadisaster - I take your point. I'm not keen on seeing article authors jump into N4G comments to defend their writing either. In this instance, I felt like I needed too.

[Sean_FingerGuns]

@knightedHollow - a 1/10 is for games that have profound functionality/design issues but can be completed. We reserve 0/10 for games that have game breaking bugs so that we can't complete it.

[anast]

The content is solid and helpful for whatever its worth.

[DivineHand125]

Visually the game looks dated and one if the things I cannot get over is the fact that aliens are coming in on advanced vehicles such as flying saucers yet they are running at you like mindless brutes with no weapons.

[toxic-inferno]

Maybe their culture haven't developed weapons due to not previously having a need for them? Or perhaps in their society, weapons are considered dishonourable, and all fighting must be conducted with brute force. Maybe attacking using weapons would be so offensive that to do so would result in social disgrace upon the entire extended family, so they have never developed such weapons.

Or maybe the developer just didn't think that one through...

[traumadisaster]

I like your imagination. But the dev part probably went like this...we realize this is unrealistic but the dev cost would be too much to implement properly for the budget we have and we are trying to squeeze a buck out of this scam. Also we can explain to future producers that we put out part of what we wanted and the ai portion could be added if you green light us. Knowing full well there is no ai enemy code as it will need the money first and if it’s approved they will be behind from the beginning trying to learn good enemy ai and that will pull resources from another area like gfx or maps and then they can sell there idea to a 3rd producer on why it was lacking and start the cycle again.