Aliens: Colonial Marines™ video game, launching February 12, 2013 worldwide. With a competitive death match game mode already revealed earlier in the year, Escape mode is the second in a number of competitive multiplayer modes for Aliens: Colonial Marines and will challenge players in an intense scenario against the universe’s deadliest killers, the Xenomorph.
GenreFirst-Person Shooters
Platforms ps3
DEVELOPER Gear Box Software | PUBLISHER Codemasters | RELEASE DATE
Aliens: Colonial Marines Reviews ps3
computerandvideogames.com review
There’s a co-op mode that supports up to four players, but fighting alongside friends doesn’t do much to improve the campaign. If you want to experience Aliens as you saw it in the movie, stick to the competitive modes. They do a much better job of recreating its most tense moments, and it makes the xenomorphs seem like a genuinely formidable foe, rather than rubber ducks at a shooting gallery. But even with decent multiplayer, Colonial Marines is still a major disappointment; one that stands in the shadow of Cameron’s film classic. Game over, man.
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officialplaystationmagazine.co.uk review
Online adds a little life – the excellent ‘get to the choppa’ Escape mode, which sees you racing to a dropship, basically is the film. The melee-based aliens however never feel effective against soldiers or comfortable to play with. And as such are always a second choice. As a result this adds up to something playable and occasionally atmospheric, but never extraordinary. I finished it twice (it’s better on hardened difficulty) and enjoyed my chance to play at being a Colonial Marine – but ultimately it’s let down by its formulaic FPS frame and lack of polish. If Gearbox’s quality scale has Borderlands 2 at one end and Duke Nukem at the other, Colonial Marines sits somewhere in the middle.
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laps3.com review
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meristation.com review
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metro.co.uk review
Despite all these features though Colonial Marines still feels like a novelty, created primarily to feed nostalgia and adding nothing to either the shooter genre or the Aliens mythos. And while we’re glad that there’s no attempt to shoehorn the Predators into the story it’s hard not to argue that the multiplayer wouldn’t have benefited from an extra faction.
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