Aliens: Colonial Marines (video game) - Oh dear!

[bassman]

....I was a much better shot on PC than I am on consoles, but I wanted a more relaxed gaming experience and made the switch to the console market.... That's why I prefer consoles. I would much rather relax on the couch and have an enjoyable experience rather than climb face-first into a computer monitor.

[MinionZombie]

That's why I prefer consoles. I would much rather relax on the couch and have an enjoyable experience rather than climb face-first into a computer monitor. hehe, aye, consoles are easier on the hands and easier on the body - on PC, if I played long enough, I found myself practically with my face mashed into the screen like I'm trying to welcome the new flesh, and because of WSAD my fingers would start to freeze up. I can still get a bit intense at times on consoles, but nowhere near as hunched forth as I did with PC - but to each their own - I dig both, but well, I explained myself above already.

[capncnut]

Still a way off but ohhh...

[Rancid Carcass]

Still a way off but ohhh... Holy arseholes and elbows - would you look at that! Sweet. Of course, I do hope that Phase Plasma rife is in the 40 watt range...

[slickwilly13]

I wonder how much the Powerloader figurine will sell for on ebay? I purchased the facehugger figurine from the Aliens vs Predator game a while back.

[Neil]

"Aliens: Colonial Marines" goes all "Left 4 Dead 2"! http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...al-multiplayer Aliens: Colonial Marines has debuted a new asymmetrical competitive mode called Escape mode, developer Gearbox has announced. The idea is that four marines must make it through a series of checkpoints, while the other team inhabits aliens tasked with hunting them down. There will be multiple special types of the acid-spewing monstrosities, and you'll play as them in third-person. The marines must ensure that each one of their squadmates makes it to the end or it's "game over, man" for everyone, literally. This is similar to Left 4 Dead's versus mode, which Gearbox CEO and co-founder Randy Pitchford praised as a stellar example of the sort of asymmetrical multiplayer he wishes to make.

[Neil]

Very +ve comments from AICN! http://www.aintitcool.com/node/59169 We were then brought downstairs to try out the multiplayer portion of the game, told that we would be the first people outside of Gearbox to play as the Xeno team. Multiplayer has been a huge part of the ALIEN and PREDATOR games going all the way back to 1994, (The best game on the Atari Jaguar!) and this entry is no slouch. Multiplayer puts a team of Xenos against a team of marines. While the marines play a first person shooter, the Xeno team players the game in third person, with the ability to climb on walls, through vents, and to lunge great distances. It became apparent, during the first few matches I played with this large group of games journalists, that COLONIAL MARINES multiplayer was unlike anything else. The best comparison would be to LEFT 4 DEAD's versus mode, but even that trades off the tension of team deathmatch for a different kind of play. The Xenos were able to pick apart squads that weren't working together, and slaughtered them for the first 20 minutes or so. But before too long, the payers started to understand just how the marines were supposed to be played. They stuck together. They watched their motion sensors. They looked at the ceilings. Once the marines started working together, they won a match. And then another. It's obviously a very balanced game, which I can always respect greatly. If the Xenos work together to scare the players that are marines, and the marines work together to watch each other's backs and communicate, it's a really fun multiplayer component.

[Neil]

[Neil]

Specs:- Minimum Specs Operating System: Windows XP SP3. Processor: 2 GHz Intel Dual Core Processor. RAM: 2GB RAM (XP),2GB RAM (Vista). HD: 20GB free hard disk space. Optical Drive: DVD. Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c compatible. Video Card:NVIDIA GeForce 8500/ATI Radeon HD 2600 (256 minimum). Recommended Specs Operating System: Windows XP SP3/Vista/Windows 7. Processor: 2.3 GHz Intel Quad CoreProcessor. RAM: 2GB RAM. HD: 20GB free hard disk space. Optical Drive: DVD. Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c compatible. VideoCard: NVIDIA GeForce GTX560/ATI Radeon HD 5850 (512 minimum). God games are getting big! 20GB! You should start seeing adverts for this game on HPotD soon I believe...

[Tricky]

Those recommended specs aren't actually anything special when most purpose built gaming rigs are far beyond that now, I'm thinking this will be a current gen console friendly port again for us PC gamers like Far Cry 3 is. I'm sure with it being confined in small dark spaces as Aliens games usually are it will still look very pretty and probably with some fancy DX11 effects thrown in though. I'll still buy it.

[Neil]

I'll still buy it. I'll need to see a few reviews to give me the confidence first

[Neil]

Some of the Xeno classes look a bit Left 4 Dead 2 special infected!?

[MinionZombie]

I always get a bit "hmmm" about these 'classes' of things - you can't just have zombies, you've gotta have classes of zombies, you can't just have a handful of alien types, you've got to have classes of xenomorphs. I think we had enough variety in the movie, I don't need a gut buster, or a belcher, or an exploder, or a stampede specialist or whatever.

[slickwilly13]

I actually like the fact that there are diffrent xenomorph types. Either that or waves and waves or worker and warrior types with the occasional queen. MZ, never call a man a tree.

[krisvds]

Game looks silly TBH. And what's with this 'kamikaze alien with an exploding head?' So much for staying true to the spirit of the film. Anyone seen the 'kick ass' trailer? Makes the game look more like a pastiche than an homage.