The game “Aliens Colonial Marines” had every chance in 2013 to become one of the best projects of the year. Here is a favorite setting by many users for opposing xenomorphs with their own universe and mysterious atmosphere. This guaranteed success at the time of the release of an entire army of fans, but the developers managed the impossible. What exactly can be found in this article.
Storyline no docking
The first alarm bell about the game "Aliens: Colonial Marines" sounded at an early stage. The developers initially promised that they would be able not only to maintain the original atmosphere.
They threatened to make a real continuation of the series from a digital project. Fans rubbed their hands, while the creators fueled interest. Suddenly it turns out that according to the plot, the infantrymen arrive on the Sephora ship to help the Sulako ship. By that time, he was supposed to leave the star system, but for some reason ended up in the same orbit of LV-426. "Hadley's Hope" remained almost completely intact, and there was no powerful explosion in the film. In general, the authors did not hesitate to rewrite history, bypassing all the canons.
Game process
It would seem that the project “Aliens: Colonial Marines” should be brilliant if you pay attention to all the stories of the authors and their diaries. In fact, everything turned out to be just sad.
A corridor shooter appeared before users at the exit, where the main character in a team of fellow marines fights with xenomorphs. Even such fans could endure, but after the first hour, the incredibly hackneyed work of Gearbox is striking. Enemies are so stupid that even a child can deceive them. When they go to direct skirmishes, they rush headlong only at the main character. This is because they contain information about the immortality of other marines. In the game "Aliens: Colonial Marines" when passing the levels look just the same. It only remembers a trip along the sewers without weapons, where at least somehow you can feel the atmosphere and a run through the same “Hadley's Hope”. On paper, the gameplay looked as exciting as it turned out to be boring in reality. That is why many users returned the money for the purchase after an hour of such entertainment.
Broken atmosphere
Films about scary and clever xenomorph aliens contained an incredibly eerie atmosphere where even one representative of this species could carve out an entire human colony, not to mention a ship.
In the passage of the game "Aliens: Colonial Marines" the feeling is completely different. A person unfamiliar with the universe might think that he is being attacked by brainless creatures that people destroy in batches. For an hour or two, this will even work, but the fans were sincerely upset. The acid of the opponents does almost no damage, they can only kill the main character, but he, like a true superhero, pushes them away from himself and with his feet, and with anything. In hand-to-hand combat, any of the Marines can fight with xenomorphs. Moreover, the enemies in the game “Aliens: Colonial Marines” are taken not by cunning, but by corny quantity. The developers decided not only to discard the canonical story, but also to mock him in every way. This is how kamikaze aliens and other types of opponents appeared in the game. There are plenty of cases of such cheap creativity in the project.
But what about the pros?
The game "Aliens: Colonial Marines" is a disappointment of the year according to many users, even despite a good multiplayer mode and good sound design.
This is too little to rectify the situation. The thing is that the Gearbox leadership gave the development of the storyline campaign to some unknown people. The office itself was engaged in more important and profitable franchises. Plus, they made multiplayer, and its qualities are very different from single-player history. The result struck everyone even more with the fact that it was not so obvious. The developers so skillfully promised a lot of interesting things, showed observance of a gloomy atmosphere, and in fact, the next corridor representative of the genre shooter appeared. Shooting crowds of xenomorphs is not only unpleasant, it is insulting from the fan’s point of view. Looking back at the films, we can safely agree with the assessment of players on different resources, which ranges from 3-4 points out of 10 possible. The game was dubbed explicit garbage, which is well deserved. Critics were milder due to the big name of the developers. In any case, you can sit down to play a project only if thousands of other excellent works in the industry have already been completed.